Rejigging Pages …

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Having a bit of trouble rejigging the Page above called Brick Stories … if you click on that you’ll come to a page that says … Oops, can’t find it. I put it back in draft mode to figure out what happened to Bosley’s Builders, parts 1 and 2.

There’s a new page called Story-ing Bricks … which is where I will re-post the whole of Bosley’s Builders, beginning at the beginning, with today just the first installment.

I can’t believe the trouble I’m still having due to getting rid of Microsoft Word, the word processor that seems to think it owns the whole word processing world, and that was at least six months ago.

At the moment Bosley’s Builders seems to start at parts 3 or 4, depending on who is trying to access part 1. I thought to fix that and at the same time invert the order … you know start with Part 1 and go on from there, instead of starting with the latest and working back.

There has to be a better way to set that up.

But, not so fast, says Word. You need to pay us first if you want to shift this Word document from A to B. It turned out that Parts 1 and 2 were still in Word. There is a labor-intensive way to circumvent that, so that’s what I’m doing, one installment at the time.

Read Bosley’s Builders, Part 1, if you haven’t or haven’t for a while here on my new page Story-ing Bricks

If you are wondering why on earth “Story-ing Bricks?“

I googled the various possibilities and came up with this as a not yet hugely populated title. Can you imagine there is even a Lego store called Brick Island? And it is in Brisbane? (Brick Island was my first choice.)

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Writing is what I do. What I think about. What I meditate on. What I dream up. Listen to. Imagine. Sometimes I sleep. Sometimes I eat. And I walk. Pull out environmental weeds. There are a thousand more things I do, though writing comes into a fair few of those things too.

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3 thoughts on “Rejigging Pages …”

  1. oyyy I hear you on the word processor issue! I deleted mine by accident a couple weeks ago and it’s been such a surprising pain in the butt. Can I ask what word processor you use now? (I started using libreoffice which is open-source, but I don’t really know too much about it. Hopefully it’s a good choice!) But yeah we get so reliant on these tools, which are helpful tools, but when they go away (or charge more or change unrecognizably, etc) it’s such an immense amount of work to rejigger, as you say. I hope you get extra chocolate for the extra work you’re doing!

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    1. Lol, chocolate hasn’t been in my life for a few years now. I had to give it up totally, along with coffee–an even greater regret–and anything with sugar or a sweetener in it. I’m on GF, DF, lowFODMAP, no nightshades, sugar free. People ask me what I can eat though it’s enough to keep me healthy.

      I was already using Scrivener for writing off-line, for its very friendly features. I kept MSWord for doing slideshows and turning manuscripts into PDFs. Microsoft’s new pricing structure puts it well out of my league. Scrivener, while not free, is a one-off payment, not a monthly or yearly sub. And it also does PDFs now, and a lot more besides. I have the manual downloaded, on my desktop. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

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      1. oh my gosh I absolutely understand about the food. im on gf, grain free, keto, whole foods, no nightshades, low oxalates and lectins, low histamine… but chocolate and coffee are in my life.
        I hope your sacrifices are worthwhile and working for you!! food is such an important pleasure.
        thanks for the scrivener idea, im looking at it now! it looks…pretty??

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