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Post by fiona on May 10, 2010 19:56:55 GMT -5
Dave; if you are concerned with people posting unrelated commentary and idle chit chat in the OGH, why not simply put up a notice that states: Please do not post comments here, this page is for finished work only, or please respect the authors and place all comments in the comment thread. I think that will work. And, if someone posts something really off the wall, innane or off topic, you can always delete it.
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Post by Dave on May 10, 2010 21:02:24 GMT -5
Fiona, that's why we have the locked thread and the commentary thread. Stuff gets put in the locked thread and remains undisturbed while any comments can be made in the comments thread. (This is the comments thread here.) The reason why we don't have much in the main locked thread is because it's all on the Workbook page on the website.
We're still getting this organized, of course. And I commented earlier that we did not put writing on BOTH the main locked thread and in workbook because it would be duplication, but now that I think of it, it doesn't cost anything to put duplicate stuff on the locked thread there. So I'll put writing up there that is also on the website. Hope that makes sense.
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Post by Dave on May 10, 2010 21:20:43 GMT -5
OK, I just put up much of the writing done in the main tent for OGH, beginning with "Billy Foley's Morning" and ending with your last dispatch, the last sentence of which is "It was a truly strange evening and she was sure the night would bring more of it." It's all in the main locked OGH thread here on this Forum. Fiona, as you continue to send me your writing, I'll put it in BOTH the Locked thread here and on the Workbook at: www.windsweptpress.com/ogh1.htmDave |
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Post by fiona on May 11, 2010 18:24:08 GMT -5
OK. Thanks. Looks great. i think it's good to duplicate everything so that folks can read it wherever. I am also hard copying the Sullivan and the Olbiston threads from Clipper's. I am working on my scene for this week. My next question is: where and how do I post my graphics and photos to the OGH? Also, I went back to Grace Church today and put in another request for archived documents and took several more nice pictures of the plaque with a digital camera. Hope all is well. Thread looks great. Interesting to see it all at once.
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Post by Dave on May 11, 2010 18:35:19 GMT -5
OK. Thanks. Looks great. i think it's good to duplicate everything so that folks can read it wherever. I am also hard copying the Sullivan and the Olbiston threads from Clipper's. I am working on my scene for this week. My next question is: where and how do I post my graphics and photos to the OGH? Also, I went back to Grace Church today and put in another request for archived documents and took several more nice pictures of the plaque with a digital camera. Hope all is well. Thread looks great. Interesting to see it all at once. You can send me the url addresses of where the photos exist on the web and I'll post them for you. Here on More Stories, I can insert them right into your post (because I'm admin.) If you want to post them yourself, look back in your email file and you'll find one or two descriptions from me on how to do it. (You do it with the [ img][ /img] labels.) If what you want to post are physical photos or documents that do not already exist on the web, you'll have to scan them and put them up on flickr or photobucket. I can scan here and put them on photobucket. |
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Post by fiona on May 11, 2010 18:49:17 GMT -5
Yes. I can do that, however, all of the pieces are now on my desktop (in my computer) and I will have to look them over. I have items that I will send to you in the next day or two, along with the ideas of where I want them in the story, or you can do something different if you want too. I have photos of Julia, of the house, all sorts of things. I would like to post them myself, but there is no comment box on OGH! Dave: where is your story about Mettusa, the Indian?
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Post by fiona on May 11, 2010 19:08:51 GMT -5
OK. Look for them by e mail to you as attachments starting tomorrow. I don't have url's for them. Ps: Do you have time to find a good Victorian graphic of an orange cat? I have looked but come up with nothing.
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Post by Dave on May 11, 2010 22:03:45 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on May 12, 2010 7:20:13 GMT -5
I enjoyed the Roscoe story and the peony bush was just the right touch for this reader, as there is a cat that comes over from the house down the road and sits under my peonies (now that they're up, but not in bloom yet.) She drives my dog crazy.
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Post by fiona on May 12, 2010 19:19:39 GMT -5
I love all these cats. I do not have the urls, as the images are on my desktop. Sorry. I will remember in the future to retain this information. What does that insert mean?
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Post by Dave on May 12, 2010 23:51:15 GMT -5
I'm confused, Fiona. It's possible that you are also. I'll send you an email.
Dave
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Post by fiona on May 15, 2010 17:13:08 GMT -5
Dave; your story is excellent as it reads, quite dramatic and tense. I wouldn't change a thing. Its very well written and tight and the history and facts are
all there. The characterizations and story line are well done. I want to know more about this girl. FYI: but you may know this, there was a weigh lock on the canal on John Street and I have read that several people, more than likley more, drowned because they got swept under the weigh lock, by the currents of the passing boats. Once under there there was no escape. As you know, the boats ran day and night from spring to late fall and as you have written, the canal was a dangerous place.
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Post by Dave on May 15, 2010 21:07:28 GMT -5
It's really just a narrative. It needs description, dialog and a little juice. Interesting about the weigh lock. I'll have to look up how they work. I do know canals were dangerous places and that many indeed were killed in or near them. In my family, an ancestor is said to have gotten drunk and fell in and drowned one night. So the story goes. But I wanted Katie to appear failed even in her attempt to end her existence, and in fact failed by her lack of understanding of the world and the things in it. We'll see how it works out.
Thanks for the comments. I appreciate any comments anytime!
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Post by Dave on May 22, 2010 19:51:26 GMT -5
Fiona did you see Jon's post in the history board that mentions a Sister Lavender? What a great name! We absolutely have to work her in to the novel!
Didn't I write something about Annie following Mary to school or something like that? And Annie
is at first with her aunt ... is that Mrs. Gorman? Can we have her somehow connect with Sister Lavender who let's say doesn't live on Post St., but instead out Whitesboro St. somewhere?
Maybe Sister Lavender is a black banshee.
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Post by fiona on May 23, 2010 22:21:02 GMT -5
I think Jon is talking about "Mother Lavender", the Evangalist who was so famous in Utica in the last half of the 19th century. She was an interesting character, but I don't know a lot about her. Perhaps Jon could leave his "Post Street is My Beat" thread for a little while and do a seperate thread on Mother Lavender and the Hope Chapel. This is just a thought. I just do not have the time. Yes, I think she could be worked in to OGH. At present this is good idea.
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