“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren’t rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn’t begun yet. July, well, July’s really fine: there’s no chance in the world for school. June, no doubting it, June’s best of all, for the school doors spring wide and September’s a billion years away.”
~ Something Wicked This Way Comes, Prologue
15 responses to “Ray Bradbury Quote”
Excellent writing. Sorry, Michael, I went to the Ravensweald site but my Like wouldn’t take. 🙁
All I can do is purge the server cache at this point (done). It could be your browser cache needing to be cleaned up, which happens a lot with WP, either the .org version of the .com version. I don’t know how many times I’ve fixed things just by clearing the site cache on my browser, regardless of the browser. If the like doesn’t take now, then it is the hinky Jetpack plugin published by WP itself that I have zilch control over.
For the record, I note quite a few unintended activity or broken features since they updated the plugin last week (twice, the second update seems to have broken more than whatever the first update broke, which is par for the course).
But yeah, Bradbury is a genius.
I’m not the most technically-gifted, so it could be me; but in my defence I get a lot of this from WordPress, and I’m not the only one, from what I read. The important thing ia that I read it, and enjoyed it. I need to get to grips with more Bradbury. Thanks for sharing this nugget. 🙂
Yeah, it shouldn’t really be your fault or your problem.
Something about how it is coded is causing the issue. And they really need to do a little more testing before they release something into the wild if it is going to cause broken functionality.
On Windows, Ctrl-F5 is a good way to force-reload misbehaving pages. It solves a lot of problems with cached webpages (which browsers leverage to speed up your experience online). There are more aggressive ways to combat the problem, but they are pretty involved and Ctrl-F5 is a simple fix most users are not aware of for many issues.
Thanks! I’ve had a few general issues today, so cleared the cache and the man’s going to take a look at it. It is what it is. 🙂
Wonderful quote. Thank you for sharing!
It’s that time of year for Bradbury.
Yes, and for Poe. 🐦⬛
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I’m up to seven writers for the project so far, Michael, with more queries out. I think the best way to do the writing itself is on Discord, so that we can workshop outside the bounds of WordPress. I believe that will also give us Zoom functionality if we need it, correct?
I would be super grateful if you would set up the Discord for us. Is that okay? I also want you to act as the moderator. I feel like I get gung ho into projects but don’t necessarily grasp the finer points or pitfalls, and so an experienced blogger like yourself can help a lot. I hope I’m not asking for too much. Again, we can take as much time as necessary, I just think it dovetails nicely with NaNoWriMo which I think is stupid anyway but does get people motivated to write.
The interested writers are mostly bloggers I think you’re already familiar with; Chico’s Mom (Jolene), Jennifer Patino, Alexander Kennedy, Phil Dynan, and Steve for the Deaf, plus me and you. I still have six more to ask and if you know anyone who’d be interested the more the merrier. I’m trying to talk Violet into it but she wants more information first. I am very grateful for everyone’s willingness to try this out. It looks like we’ll have a pretty good mix of guys and gals, from all over the world. Pretty cool. I’m excited.
Time for me to start thinking up a story, put my money where my mouth is so to speak . . .
Discord has voice-based chat. I’m not sure about video functionality — but I don’t think that is necessary. And Google has a similar function, which would allow for video if that’s important.
I can set up a Discord, no problem. I’ll try to get to it in the next week or so. I can moderate too — I’ve performed that role, however named, for a number of projects I’ve worked on over the years.
I can reach out to Chris Nelson, Michele Lee, Ray Van Horn Jr, and Tara Caribou. Any of those folks might be interested. I’m sure if I put my thinking cap on, I can think of a handful of others who write short fiction who might be up to this as an experiment.
Pitfalls come with every project and it is easy to wear rose-colored glasses. I get paid to find problems for my IRL job, so it is just what I’m really doing when I point something out that might not work. More to prevent foreseeable problems than to be a killjoy.
You are awesome, and yes, please ask all of them if they’re interested in participating. I’m aware of all of them, but I don’t think I’ve read any fiction from any of them.
Will do. Just verified it is voice chat only at Discord. I’ll reach out via email to discuss details.
Sounds great Michael.
That book changed me… and also, I never read Ray Bradbury again.