After managing to clean up the desktop version of the site (organizing the stories to their own menus so it’d look presentable) and scheduling a review for this morning, I went to bed thinking I had made progress on this whole “Can Swift manage his own website?” question rather well.
Imagine my surprise and chagrin when I checked the Mobile version this morning and found it messed up and trying to hold to the very first design I had put down.
I’ll take a look at it later tonight and see what I need to learn to fix it. Or WordPress will do an Internet thing (update) and it’ll look nice before I log in again, this securing me in my belief that I am starting to know what I’m doing.
Let me believe, people.
With that, I’m also debating on just what else I can do here. I was also shown that I can set the site up for people to pay for certain content, so now I’m struggling with that conundrum.
Do I want people to pay me for my writing? Yes, absolutely. But do I want to make people pay me to read my stories here and not via buying a book, thus getting their money’s worth? That’s a struggle.
I’m also enjoying taking the old books I know and love and showcasing them here. I think I’ll try a couple series of this, showing stories and writers I’ve admired over the years. The problem there is that if I started, it’d only be a matter of time before I dived into the Star Wars: Expanded Universe (Legends, now that Disney said my childhood is no longer canon) sagas, and that’s one hell of a rabbit hole to dive into.
We’ll see what happens as the year progresses, but you can expect more stories, occasional essays, and more photos of family chicanery to come.
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