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Hey Kryson,

Thanks for the question!

As far as writing rituals, to be honest, I have tons. LOL I can only write at my local Starbucks. I keep trying to write at home, but I can never seem to get any work done. But when I'm at Starbucks, and it's just me and my laptop, I feel that the only thing I can do is write. So that's one ritual. Another one is, since I take the bus as my main mode of transportation, I normally listen to podcasts on my iPod. But when I'm taking the bus to head to Starbucks to write, I can only listen to movie soundtracks. It helps to get my mind into that creative space, and since soundtracks generally don't have lyrics, it helps me to concentrate on just that.

Same goes for when I'm actually sitting down to write. I will only listen to soundtracks, and I have several that I listen to for different moods that I'm writing. Currently, I'm writing on a new project that requires a sad moment in the story, so right now I'm listening to "The Funeral" from the Firefly Soundtrack. That's just one example.

For Black Shadow, I listened to mostly Classic Rock music, but the soundtrack of choice was the Batman Begins soundtrack.

Hope that answers your question. Oh, and the preview colours, I will change that as soon as I can. Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks again.

As always, I remain, obediently yours....

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

P.S. Oh, and yes you get a banana now. LOL

Thanks, Steve. It's nice to know I'm not the only one with rituals. :)

I have a couple of the same rituals even. Listening to soundtracks and making playlists for books and/or characters is something I found myself doing. Lots of classic rock here... stuff with heavy beats and incredible vocals.

As for Starbucks... I don't have a laptop, so I never adopted that ritual. :)

Sorry, I figured Drupal would email me when you responded, so I thought you hadn't yet. I just dropped by the site to see what had changed and noticed your reply.

Oh, and thank you for the banana! :)

Hey Kryson, sorry about that Drupal did not notify you of the response. Still working out stuff on my end to do that.

Glad to hear you have some of the same rituals. I love finding stuff like that out.

As always, I remain, obediently yours....

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

Oh, I understand. I played with Drupal for quite awhile and finally decided I didn't have enough time to figure out how to make it work the way I wanted it to. It's still set up, but I've been playing with WP in the meantime. I'm still old school and haven't kept up on all this new fangled php stuff. :)

I don't mind coming to the site to see if you've responded anyway. Gets me to look around while I'm here. :) I have renewed hope for Iron Man now.

Honestly I love Drupal. I've used it now for 2 1/2 years and it amazes me what great stuff it can do. I like WP, but I find it too constricting for what I like to do. Plus it's hard to find really good different types of themes that I like. You always get the same kind of format, Header, content, then sidebars. They all look the same. Now granted, of course the theme I'm using now is the same thing as I just described but, I have the ability to switch up areas on the fly with Drupal, WP I can't without having to get into the code.

Either way, I still love WP and I love Drupal.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy Iron Man if you see it. It was a blast to see!

As always, I remain, obediently yours....

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

I feel silly. I was trying to talk to you in Twitter before I realized you couldn't see it. LOL!

I actually had the theme problem with both, but there seemed to be a lot less to choose from with Drupal. I messed with editting one and... well... it wasn't pretty. :)

I completely agree that WP is more constricting. I still *want* to use Drupal. I'd rather have everything all in one instead of pointing people to my old message board and very neglected website. I'm hoping after I get the ecommerce site up that I've been working on I'll be able to sit down and spend more time with Drupal. I kept seeing such potential to do so much with it.

Thanks again,

Kryson

You tried to talk to me through Twitter? That's odd that I couldn't see it. Did you use @stevesaylor or DM me? I'm certain I have you as a follower. If not, I'll search right now to add you.

By all means if you want to ask something in Twitter, that's cool with me! I'm totally open for that.

As for drupal, yeah I do agree there isn't nearly as many or as cool themes as WP does. I wish they had more people making themes for it. I would make some myself, but I don't know enough CSS or HTML or PHP to create one from scratch. I take one I like that's close to what I want, then I edit that to customize it.

As always, I remain, obediently yours....

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

Yeah, I @ responded to something you said a couple of times and someone DM'ed and said... you know he's not following you so he can't see it right? Oops. :)

I know HTML. :) I coded my first webpage by hand in 1993-ish and pretty much haven't learned much since then. I've set up a ton of php platforms... message boards, guestbooks, link exchangers, and the fiasco that was phpNuke. phpNuke got hacked 3 times even while trying to keep up with all the security fixes and I finally had to dump it. I lost everything... an entire community with tons of brilliant writing from a bunch of friends.

I'm thinking about trying to find some classes I can take so I can join the 2000's. :)

That's really really weird about Twitter. I do see all @ replies to me whether I'm following or not, and I have an alert for anyone mentioning "stevesaylor" on twitter. That's really odd. Well I did see your last @ Tweet to me today, so everything should be fine here on out. LOL

Wow, losing all that info, that sucks. I feel for you. I lost a lot of comments when I Drupal crashed on me a few weeks ago. So I definitely have been there. Either way, I don't think you need classes for web stuff. Everything is online nowadays. LOL But I can't wait to see what you develop when you work on it. So keep it up! LOL

As always, I remain, obediently yours....

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

Yeah, it is odd. I've had a couple of weird things happen to me though with Twitter. I kept trying to direct two people and the directs weren't showing at all. I was following them and they were following me, so the only thing I can come up with is twirl was going psycho on me. I rebooted and it seems to have cleared up, but I have no idea what could have been causing it.

I know I don't really need classes, but it would force me to learn it rather than reading a little, getting interupted by the business or the kiddo or some character screaming at me and never going back to it. Then, by the time I do go back to it, I've forgotten everything I already read and have to start all over again. I have a php for Dummies book sitting on my desk gathering dust as we speak... errr... type. :)