litreactor – f(x)=x https://chrissalch.com The identity function Fri, 04 Dec 2015 04:09:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.7 37371501 Playing With Bookmarklets https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/06/11/playing-with-bookmarklets/ https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/06/11/playing-with-bookmarklets/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:18:34 +0000 http://chrissalch.com/?p=563 Every so often I’ve found myself wanting to link to a specific comment over on LitReactor. Unfortunately, while they have in page anchors, there is no easy way to get at a link to them. Having fought with developer tools tracking down the right anchor element one too many times, I decided to throw this little toy together right quick:

javascript:(function () {
    var comment_container = $('#comments');
    var comments = $('div.comment', comment_container);
    var anchors = $('a[id~=comment]', comment_container);

    for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
        var anchor = $(anchors[i]);
        var comment = $(comments[i]);

        var href = window.location.href + '#' + anchor.attr('id');

        $('.comment-content .comment-meta a:first-child ', comment).before(
            '<a href="' + href + '"> # </a>'
        );
    }
})();

And here it is as a link:

Keep in mind, this is just a toy! No warranties, use at your own risk etc!

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Editing Editing and More Editing … Now for Some Writing! https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/05/10/editing-editing-and-more-editing-now-for-some-writing/ https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/05/10/editing-editing-and-more-editing-now-for-some-writing/#respond Fri, 10 May 2013 14:19:02 +0000 http://chrissalch.com/?p=496 Finally!  I’ve made my way back through the first ten thousand words of The Erasable Man and have finally caught up with where I was when Teleport-Us derailed me.  Now, how to get Zachary Artemas out of his little predicament … but you don’t know about that do you.  Here’s a little snippet:

“Don’t worry your little head none about that. I’m not supposed to kill you unless you’re difficult,” said the little man. “He gave me a note to read to you. It says: Next time it will be you. What’s that supposed to mean? Next time it will …”

Something gurgled and collapsed with a heavy thud. I looked over my shoulder and saw my assailant on the ground, surrounded by dried blood. A zip-tie, pulled tight enough to have embedded itself into the man’s wrist, bound his hands in the small of his back. Next to the body was a pile of neatly folded skin and two skewered eyeballs sitting on a small ceramic dish pointed directly at me. The eyes had been placed so that they appeared to be looking into my own.

There was no need to check his pulse; the man had been dead for a long time, several hours if the Sun’s elevation could be trusted. The massive gap in my memory ached like a missing limb. How do you deal with someone who can immobilize you without warning, I thought to myself.

The plan is still to release this in an episodic form, with periodic role ups of several episodes.  The main reason I haven’t pushed out some of the earlier episodes (read that as 2) is that I’m having trouble finishing them up in a timely manner.  Once I can nail that down, and build up enough of a release backlog to have a spare episode or two waiting in the wings, The Erasable Man will hit the figurative presses.

Anyone have suggestions on a viable platform to publish episodic fiction?

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Teleport Us – DONE! https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/03/31/teleport-us-done/ https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/03/31/teleport-us-done/#respond Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:49:44 +0000 http://chrissalch.com/?p=479 Late Saturday the 30th, almost the 31st, I finally finished reading the last entry to Teleport Us on LitReactor.  Over the course of three months, I’ve read and commented on around 160 short stories.  I’m not sure of the exact number as some of the stories were pulled after and some before I could get around to reading them.

There is a sense of elation and accomplishment that comes with completing a run like that, and some withdrawal pangs as you realized it’s all over.  I can honestly say that this competition has devoured almost all of my free time since it was first announced back in January.  Now that it’s finished, I will have to get to work on some of my own writing again and back to my sorely neglected reading list.

If you didn’t get around to reading entries before the April 1st deadline, don’t worry. Scare Us from last year is still online with all the entries and comments that went with them, and I’m certain that Teleport Us will be left up indefinitely as well.  All you have to do is get an account on LitReactor to access all of those amazing and sometimes gruesome stories!

Here’s a short list of my favorites with quick links:

Yeah, way too long a list!  There’s also my own entry, Implant, but it seems disingenuous to include it in a list of my favorites.  Good luck to all those who entered!  As I’ve said before, there were some down right amazing gems  in this challenge!  I wonder if any of my picks will win?

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Free Stuff! March 1st and 2nd! https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/02/15/free-stuff-march-1st-and-2nd/ https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/02/15/free-stuff-march-1st-and-2nd/#respond Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:02:54 +0000 http://chrissalch.com/?p=453 It’s that time again! My novel That Which is Nameless will be free on Amazon March 1st and 2nd, and A Thousand Cuts, a “Creepy” short story I wrote for the Scare-Us event at LitReactor will be free March 1st.

Both of these texts have been part of the KDP Select program for the past ninety days and their enrollment is just about to run out. That means it’s use it or lose it time for their remaining “promotion days” and another give away for you!

If you do pick TWIN or ATC up, I’d really like to hear what you though of them. Be sure to drop a comment here, review over on Amazon, or get in touch with me via Good Reads.

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Teleport Us – Implant https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/02/04/teleport-us-implant/ https://chrissalch.com/blog/2013/02/04/teleport-us-implant/#respond Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:17:17 +0000 http://chrissalch.com/?p=443 The guys over at LitReactor have done it again and wiped out another month of writing time. Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m not writing, just that I’m working on a project related to their event Teleport Us rather than other things.

This is the second time I’ve gone through one of these and I have to say that the four thousand word limit is a killer! It really forces you to cut down things that aren’t core to a story. If you haven’t been by the site before, give a whirl. You can find my entry at:

SmilelyCover

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