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Comment on The Evans Theatre by Joe B

Joe B — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:20:27 +0000

So apparently this thing will render HTML tags too. I was commenting that the enclosing elements are either div or span tags.

Comment on The Evans Theatre by Joe B

Joe B — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:19:33 +0000

Site looks good on the iPhone, but I do notice that there are some titles (specifically “Beginner” and “Of Games and Escapes / A Tell-Tale Haunting”) where the text is longer than the enclosing element (what I assume to be or tags). This could be rectified using a small font size, or stacking the elements vertically. You may wish to consider a iPhone/Android specific app icons, so that the site is visible from the home screen of said devices. Right now it just shows a compressed image of the site itself.

Other than these minor issues, I think the site itself looks great, and is a fantastic improvement to the old site!

Comment on Coming Soon by Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:40:07 +0000

Glad you enjoyed my little tale.

As to “ought”: that was actually intentional. All through the story, Stella uses questionable word choices (“For cake’s sake”, “boondoggy”, etc, culminating in the one that still makes me, the author, giggle: “Oh, piss“). Just one more aspect of her, um, unfamiliarity with her place in this world, shall we say.

Comment on Coming Soon by nobody

nobody — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:23:37 +0000

I ought to have thought of this for the first post,
but I missed it. “Naught” would fit as well…

Comment on Coming Soon by nobody

nobody — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:20:34 +0000

Just read your story, Exit Interview and found it excellent. An idea that hasn’t been used before!

Just one thing to mention though, the difference between “ought”, loosely meaning should and aught meaning any or zero.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aught

Details, details… where would we be without them?

Anyway, good job on the story.

Comment on So far so good by Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:00:14 +0000

Just wanted to say I liked your story a lot. Great ending, too.

Comment on Congratulations to Craig Russell by Keycon 28 (1) | Dear Diary

Keycon 28 (1) | Dear Diary — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:29:17 +0000

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Comment on The new development by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:55:17 +0000

Oddly enough, I hadn’t thought of it that way. You make a good point.

Comment on The new development by Grant Hamilton

Grant Hamilton — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:49:14 +0000

Don’t worry — when the dead arise from their graves, these easy-to-reach snacks will give the rest of us enough time to zombie-proof our homes.

Comment on Starting a new story by Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:03:56 +0000

I did indeed. I’m glad you enjoyed it, and I’m doubly glad you find yourself inspired by it.

The beauty of that particular story — and any of the stories I wrote on the Ficlets site — is that they’re licensed using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. What that means, in a nutshell, is that anyone has the right to remix, adapt, and create derivative works from my story — with the caveats that a) you have to give attribution to the original author (ie, me) and b) you have to release your derivative work under the same license.

If that’s fine with you, it’s fine with me. I’d love to see what you create.

If you want to contact me directly, you can do it via this site, or, if you’d like, I can contact you at the email address you used to post your comment.

-pat