Super-duper quick post. I do have a scrivener template I use. Two of them, actually. But the many sites out there linking to it are linking to an old defunct post. I’ll add it back to my site shortly and let the linking sites know the new address.
By definition. The tests are designed so the average score is 100. Sixty-eight percent of the people taking the test fall into the range of plus or minus 15% of the mean, or between 85 and 115. So I have to assume there is a significant skew downward to results lately because a large percentage …
Now if I’m totally honest, when my employer told us all to go home last March (2020, of course), I didn’t mind one bit. We are a bit of an insular family, anyway. I got rid of my hour long commute, could barbecue some snags at lunch and got an extra hour sleep at night. …
This isn’t an advertisement for Netgalley, but it sure is going to sound like one. I have a publisher’s account at Netgalley. I give them a fair bit of money, and they present my book for review by readers, booksellers, libraries, and the like. You can join for free, as a reader, if you’d like. …
Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in Financial Crimes with the Australian Federal Police. The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars — Australia’s first and only EV manufacturer — hires him to root out the fraud costing what is …
I bang on this a lot, and if the truth be told, this is only a minor component of a good story, but one most often missing. Stories have a structure. Generally, three acts. There are other structures, but they all resolve, in one way or another, to three acts. There are certain things a …
Apparently there’s a WordPress Plug-in exploit that allows nefarious bastards to gain access to my site and change shit. Posts prior to a couple of posts ago have been disappeared. With prejudice. Fortunately, the way-back machine has archives of some of those posts, so over the next few weeks, or months, I’ll reinstate them. Stay …
I got my first jab last week. There has been a lot of hesitancy about the AstraZeneca vaccine, and the EXTREMELY SLIGHT risk of blood clots. So I took it upon myself to track the side effects I experience. For the general public’s awareness, you understand. I received my first AZ jab the morning of …
Just leaving this here for now… Coming in September. Sometime… Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in the Financial Crimes Division of the Australian Federal Police. The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars — the first and only manufacturer …