Website is back!
Posted by McNaire on Feb 08 2012 | Comment now »
After a year hiatus Pyroscribe is back after a good friend was willing to split server costs 50/50 with me. It’s so nice to have a presence on the web again. Really motivates me to actually put something here!
Some works added
Posted by McNaire on Jul 11 2010 | Comment now »
Just a quick text update, added new Solo Writing ”Notebook Hariku” and inserted a poem as the cover page for Solo Writings. Enjoy both!
I’ve Got…Free Time!
Posted by McNaire on Jun 01 2010 | Comment now »
Last semester was a nightmare. I won’t bore you with the details, but it didn’t go well (I got all A’s, but it was too much work for the results). I decided to take the summer off and wouldn’t you know it, I’ve been in a bit of a stupor for a while here. Then yesterday it struck me: I have free time! So I’m going to get back into my hobbies in the precious few months I have!
The Funs of School
Posted by McNaire on Feb 05 2010 | Comment now »
This semester…calculus. What more do I need to say? I am doing so much math that I am dreaming of numbers. My personal writing feels so lacking but I have an idea. Freewriting is a fun 15min exercise that can really help get the writing muscles clicking, so that’s what I plan on doing everyday if I can, and unless it’s complete and total drivel, I’ll post it here on my site in order to make the poor thing at least feel like it is wanted.
I Might Have Found My Calling
Posted by McNaire on Dec 03 2009 | Comment now »
Picture this:
A lush, lavish room with a giant fountain and an ivory desk set against massive gold-etched windows that look out onto a meticulously maintained garden. A scared man is ushered into the presence of a Man decked in robes who stands meditatively gazing out at the garden scene. As the scared man is brought before the Man, the flanking guards force him onto his knees, where he starts to frantically pray. There is a long pregnant pause as the Man turns slowly and regards the man in front of him with evident disdain. He taps a sheaf of papers with a long cultured finger and in a voice coming from the depths of a mountain cavern growls, “You disappoint us.” The man falls to the ground and begins to grovel. “You use too many commas,” the Man continues, “However, considering your past…use to this person, we have decided to give you one week to correct your problem, or else we shall feed you to our pet crocodiles.” The groveling man knocks his head on the floor at this unexpected mercy and crawls away backwards, grateful for having his life spared.
That should be me. The one, the only, the EDITOR! Supreme arbitrator for all things written.
At least that’s how my friends view me whenever they are foolish enough to let me look at their work…
A Little Adventure 100% Uploaded!
Posted by McNaire on Sep 06 2009 | Comment now »
Well after about 2 hours of forced work I have completely uploaded the entire A Little Adventure. Enjoy! This is still one of my favorite works and is fascinating to me in the fact that it was written linearly. I had NO idea what later chapters would hold, I made it all up on the fly. And connections made in later chapters that fit into earier ones were pure happenstance, and since some of them are really awesome (my friends’ words) I find the happy way it worked out perfectly quite incredible.
Now I crash…I refused to go to sleep until I finished this time, and my cat is throwing daggers at me with his eyes. He demands his bed warmer…
The wonders of Zoho.com
Posted by McNaire on Sep 04 2009 | Comment now »
What do you do when you are writing a story for a friend and you end up suffering from serious writers block? The solution is to get him involved of course. But what do you do when you when you both live 30 mins from each other?
writer.zoho.com
I discovered zoho a long while back, when I used to work on the Planeshift project. We used zoho to share our work, but I find today it has more useful um…uses. If my friend gets onto zoho when I’m working on his story, he can actually watch me live as I write, and give me suggestions and ideas. If he was so inclined he can jump into the writing also, although I’m not nice about that.
The editor has some issues, it’s not as robust as Word or Open Office, but it does the job. And I found out that it’s alot of fun to do.
Writer’s Curse
Posted by McNaire on Aug 18 2009 | Comment now »
Well, I’ve been trying to get back into serious writing again and last night was the first sign it’s working. The downside is I was about to drift off to sleep and a really good idea came to me. I first toyed with waiting until tomorrow, but then I panicked that I wouldn’t remember in the morning, so I dragged myself up and started typing a quick section.
It was 2 o’clock when I finally forced myself to finish…
If only there was some way to make my writing moods switch on and off, but sadly they have a life of their own and I fear I’m going to start to lose quite a bit of much loved sleep. I’m starting to show the true sign of a writer: the bags under his eyes from the lack of sleep.
Corrupted Pages
Posted by McNaire on Aug 05 2009 | Comment now »
In looking over the backend for my site and doing some general tidying up, I have discovered that many of my older posts and pages have somehow gotten screwed up. The first couple paragraphs will be okay, but after that the formatting goes out the window and you get one big ugly block of text that is usually several fonts sizes too large.
So it looks like before I can do any serious uploading I’m going to have to go back through and fix the OLD pages. Considering it can take anywhere from 15 mins to 30mins to format a page, I really am not looking forward to it. Oh well, hopefully once done this time it stays the way I want it…