Here It Is...

Handwavium PDF.pdf

The steps to download are as follows...

1:- Follow the link.

2:- Select option 2 (Use File Factory Basic)

3:- Enter the verification code

4:- Download and (hopefully) enjoy.

My verification code was suspiciously close to a swear word, but this could be a statistical anomaly based on random letter configurations. I hope so, I don't want to offend people before they've read my stuff. I'm hoping to save that for after they've read it!

A New Potential File Host

I seem to have found a file host that may be suitable to my needs, so I'll be posting the sharing URL in a few minutes. From what I can gather from the t&c's on the site itself downloaders will be subjected to a short advert before being re-directed to the download. The content of these adverts isn't specified, but Web Of Trust gives the site a good rating so hopefully there won't be anything inappropriate in the ads, however if it turns out that there is, just say so in the comments and I will immediately look for an alternative host.

By the way the article I'll be posting consists of me waffling about writing science fiction. This doesn't mean I'll be posting science fiction stories, although I reserve the right to do so, just that I've been thinking about potential problems if I ever write one. The article is also very short, more of potential blog post that I wrote to myself before I had actually considered starting a blog. If all goes well the first proper story will go up later tonight, or early tomorrow morning.

The Death Of Links

That didn't go too well now did it? The links have now been broken, since google docs doesn't seem too appropiate to my particular needs right now. I'm going to have to find a different (free) file host. Preferably one that saves formatting.

Short Article-Update

One brief look was all I needed. Googledocs doesn't translate the formatting of .odt files turning the whole thing into one long, rambling stream of consciousness. That is what the article actually contains but I want it to look a little more sleek than that. I'll try exporting as a PDF and then upping that.

Short Article

As promised, the short article as a test for google docs ability to do what I want it to can be found here

Complications, Solutions and Ponderations

Oh, my stars! This is going to be a bit more complicated than I thought. It seems that I can't upload PDF files directly to my Blogger page, instead I'm going to have to find a free hosting site and provide links to the documents for people (well persons, there won't be many to begin with) to download from there. Googledocs seems interesting and provides the opportunity to publish a document as a PDF or as a web page, which might come in handy for those who don't want to use up valuable ink on a short story by an author they've never even heard of before and may never want to read again. Before I go live with the whole mad dash for next year, Ill be putting up a short article of some description later today in order to test the functionality of Googledocs and whether or not it'sgoingto work for me.

After some consideration, Ive decided that I'm almost certainly going to be publishing anything I write for this project under a variation of the Creative Commons licence, with the understanding that I have no objection to others translating the work into other languages or creating new versions of the work itself such as editing suggestions or making music, poetry or youtube videos etc. so long as they don't create entirely new works of fiction based on the characters or situations, as I may wish to revisit them at a later date to expand on what has happened, write sequels or follow ups. All of this of course is based on the proviso that this is not done for commercial gain. There, all of the legal bit done for now.