First Blog Post

[grav_ity]

Following one of my Resolutions for ResolversAnonymous, I have made my first blog post.

It's probably old news to most of you, but if you've ever wanted to know when I fell in love with words (it involves being at school on a weekend and Kermit the Frog), this blog will tell you how it happened. ;)

Hail and Well Met

Um...comments on layout and readability are welcome. I am new at this, and Wordpress and I are only just getting to know each other.

Comments

[penknife.livejournal.com]

They will take my two spaces after a period away from me over my dead body, I am just saying.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

It is MAKING ME CRAZY. But apparently it is something I am Supposed to Do, and so my new goal in life is to become powerful enough that I can change the convention back.

[shadadukal]

I love one space after a full stop. I'd like the convention to be 'whatever flots your boat'. ;) What I don't know is what is expected with colons. Are we supposed to have a space both before and after? To further complicate matters, I think it's different in French and English (of course!). When it comes to colons, I like no space before and one after, except apparently for userpic keywords (go figure!).

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

No space before a colon. There's never a space before a punctuation mark, except a hyphen/n-dash when you're using it to break up a sentence - like this - instead of as a word, like co-operate.

[shadadukal]

Okay, thanks, then it's probably in French that there is a space before a colon.

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

I got in the habit of doing two spaces after years of doing one space, because Faith always did two spaces. But then I learned you're supposed to only do one space, so I switched back, and then Faith did one spaces for me during the last half of Boo 4. ;) I thought it would take a long time to make the switch, but it was almost instantaneous. (There's always search-and-replace, too; I always run search and replace twice at the end of a document to check for double spaces. I've found that when doing double spaces, there are often triple ones that sneak in.)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

That's what I do. And Twitter is training me to limit spaces as well. ;)

[penknife.livejournal.com]

MY SPACES MY PRECIOUSES.

*clings*

[shadadukal]

I love the layout and find it very easy to read.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I tend to like the blacks, but I wasn't sure how it would work for others.

[shadadukal]

I love greys and blacks as well, so I might not be the best judge for a dark layout. ;)

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

I think it reads well. If you can, my suggestion would be to add a blog follow thing. A ton of wordpress accounts have them, so people can click "follow this blog" and their pictures will pop up in a box. Blogger has them too. If Wordpress blogs don't have these, and I want to follow them, there's no way to do so and then I never visit their blogs again.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...you can follow me if you have wordpress. But I don't know if there's another way to set it up. I shall poke at it.

ETA: Okay, not as cool as the blogger one and I haven't found pictures yet, but how's this (http://emilykatejohnston.wordpress.com/)?

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

Oh, nevermind--I've discovered that Wordpress has a tiny follow button on the bottom of the screen (if you're not logged into Wordpress) where you can enter your email address. I've just never noticed it before.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll leave the follow option up for a bit. I can always take it down again if I need to. ;)

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

ETA: Replied before I saw this. I like it a lot! Makes it where I don't have to search for it.

[faith-king.livejournal.com]

Yay bloginess!! ;-)

Laura is never going to let me forget about that one vs. two spaces thing... *sigh*

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

IT'S VERY ANNOYING!

(I mean in general, not your example in particular.)

[faith-king.livejournal.com]

Mostly in this case I weary of the "I changed because of FAITH and then I had to CHANGE BACK!"

All right, all right.... sheesh. ;-)

(I fully support you in your life's ambition to turn the tables).

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know that there are about a million puns I could make right now, but instead I am choosing to take the high road.

[faith-king.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

Oh.

Hahahahahaha.

I have such a punny name. It's actually more annoying than not. ;-)

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

*DIES* It's not a BAD thing. I was so proud of myself for learning to do two spaces--because everyone usually did two! And many people still do. Everyone was taught to do two, except apparently me, so I was all "ack, but I only know how to do one!" And then I started formatting for publication and whatnot and people are like "one space!" and I was all O_O because I'd gone and learned the proper two! (You were always way better at the proper stuff and I...felt so out of the loop, LOL. I remember feeling the same way when writing Awakenings about the writing itself: you always seemed to have everything together and had it down and perfect on the first shot, and my scenes needed a gazillion tons of rewriting.) ;)

[dm-lunsford.livejournal.com]

Wait - what is this about no longer putting two spaces after a period ending a sentence? Since when is this the way it's to be done? Who made this rule? *shock, outrage, more shock*

Hmph! I think I may be on the side with penknife on this one. I'm seldom a rebel, but this is one usage I may have to fight until my dying days. ;)

I have signed up to "follow" the blog with email notifications. Good luck with your blogging endeavors!

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Something about it being for type-writers and then something else about single spaces being easier for dyslexia? I have no idea.