Dixon's Forum

Hello, I’m back, after a long hiatus.   That Campaign Registry fiasco is over, so, on to the next thing.

Actually found out that dixonsforum.com is a confusing site, with the Campaign Registry people unable to find the link buttons even when it’s spelled out in the text.    Click here    to see where I spelled it out, use a ‘back’ button to return here.

And that made me realize I’ve roadblocked my own self again!    I thought I got over that, but no.    In hoping to get comments on my works and ideas, I presented them in such a way that nobody could figure out how.  “. . . subconsiously inviting rejection and failure, baffled when nothing . . , ever works out . . .” just like in my story “That’s my Way”.    Click    here to visit the quoted segment of “That’s my Way”, use a back button to get ‘back’ here.

And so, I have changed the Directory from a Post to a Page, and added a link to it up in the Header, second from the leftmost button.    It’s a very rudimentary Directory as of this writing but will be refined and improved as time goes by.    Click here    to see the Directory as of this writing, as it first started out, and click the ‘directory’ button up in the Header to see it as it is today, with all the updates and improvements.  Return here via a ‘back’ button.

Another reason I think I get no comments is because I haven’t yet optimized the site for search engines.    That’s important if you want people to find your site, but it’s so boring, I keep blowing it off like it’s not very important, hoping people will find me anyway through Webwise Word-of-Mouth or something, but sooner or later I’ll bite the bullet and get it done.

Moving on to the urination so-called essay — it doesn’t follow any basic essay format, more of an opinion editorial piece than an essay, really.  But I was young, I’m smarter now.

Like the play, it was written on an old IBM PC/AT souped up with a ten-megabyte hard drive, with a text editor called PC-Write, which embeds the printer controls within the text via visible ‘hidden control characters’, and the file sizes are limited to 64 kilobytes, so many files per document, complicated.

When I write on a screen, I always find changes to make when I read the printed manuscript.  Somehow they’re easier to spot on paper.    Then I edit the file according to the edit marks on the hardcopy.    Everything I write goes through multiple iterations like that.

Click here    to see the opinion editorial I called an essay, and here       for its home page.

Next Week:   Still not the play.    Still not ready for that yet,    I’m in the mood to take some more pictures, but maybe I’ll find something easier.  I’ll still be putting the Directory together for part of the week, too, maybe, like last time.