Saturday, 22 August 2015
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
SAVING A MULTI-VOICE POEM USING THE“PRINT SCREEN” COMMAND.
SAVING A MULTI-VOICE POEM USING THE“PRINT SCREEN” COMMAND.
This takes up a bit of memory but I am trying it out to see
how it works. Peace is a 4 part multi-voice poem. I have a version on
rich text Microsoft Word that is eight point Lucida Console (a monospace font).
I have this poem on a couple of my sites already (as html) but have not yet
tried this way of saving the poem.
I view the poem on the file and zoom in until the poem fills
the screen. I then do a print screen command (on my PC this is “Ctrl”
and “Print Scrn” keys at the same time). I open a new Microsoft word file and
paste in the file. I click on the screen shot illustration to pick it then: Save
As Picture. Save this as a png (portable network graphics) photo file.
This is a good quality format. I have then clicked on this file (to pick it) and
Opened With [an option given] Serif PhotoPlus X5. I cropped this till
only the poem and none of the extraneous bits are showing. I save this as a PNG
file (but there are other options too). I will try to load this onto my web
site and see how it looks. This is easy to do but I cannot see how I can do it
for a two page poem (i.e. two screen shots).
I had to choose google chrome for my browser before the file would add.
I had to choose google chrome for my browser before the file would add.
Ashby
CREATING A WEBSITE
CHOOSING A WEBSITE
HOST
I have been searching for a year for the ideal website for
someone who wants to post complicated text (like poetry). I need a free site. I
also need one that is hosted by the web company (to save me having to do
security updates, and finding and paying for a host server). I also need a site
that is ok for beginners. So, I need one with already written Themes.
I am no web developer.
And I find it difficult to find (internet or magazines or books) good
help when I have difficulties in posting multi-voice poetry. So I have went
from WordPress (which does not always cope with the html I post) to Blogger.
I have had a few difficulties with code in Blogger as well recently. So, I have
started a Yola account too. I also have difficulty with Yola with some
html posts. Two html posts went on ok.
Then two html posts didn’t. All these are free sites. I use
all these sites. I write in an old
laptop at home then use a memory stick to upload my writings.
Advertising: Of the
sites I have mentioned, only WordPress puts advertising on your site. I fear
that, apart from it looking not that great, that there will be ads that I don’t
approve of (with me being an animal rights person). I do understand they have
to make a profit somehow though (Websites get paid for the advertising that is
placed on your site).
I also have a free Tumblr. account. I use a local Library for internet access but
Tumblr. is partially blocked there. This
is an interesting article about using html with Tumblr.: http://buildthemes.tumblr.com/post/41557258904/displaying-html-and-code-in-tumblr-posts
I have just heard that Twitter will in the next few weeks
raise its word limit from 140 characters to 10,000 characters but only for
direct messages. Public Tweets are still at the 140 character limit.
Yola was recommended on many review sites. So I started a
website there. I have just found out
that you can only have three pages. Also, that is does not Blog. At all! You
have to Blog on Tumblr, and get posts allowed on Yola using a Tumblr. Blog
Widget (it does seem to work and is easy to set up but I don’t know why you
cannot do ordinary Blogging on Yola). Again they have a host of help lines and
community lines and forums and help emails, but none seem to answer the questions
I have. Also, I have not found Yola easy to work with (with regard to editing
my website).
So, I have WordPress automatically send my posts to Tumblr.
And Tumblr. automatically sends those posts to Yola. They must get tired out.
Partly because no website is
perfect for me and partly for me to be able to write about whether they are
worth joining, I have started a new free website on Altervista. My other new Website name is:
multivoicepoetry.altervista.org They offer three different levels of complexity
of theme. I have chosen (yes, you guessed it) beginner level. It seems to be
able cope with the html for my poems as long as they are not five or six
columns broad and needing a lot of horizontal space.
I cannot try out every website host but I did note that both Wix
and Freehostia have some themes which are Free.
You will find on touring the internet that huge excellent
looking reviews of websites sometimes miss things or get things wrong in their
comparisons. Some reviews are not independent and are sponsored.
The only way to really find which site is best is to try a
few. Blogger so far has been the best website for multi-voice. WordPress is
great for lovely themes and simple prose. But Yola seems very limited.
And I am on
Facebook too.
And on You
Tube (well, Chromatic Voices 2 are) at:
link to part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i12R6_wQUCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i12R6_wQUCo
I have a multi-voice
website. Web address is:
And at:
And at:
multi-voicepoetry.yolasite.com/
Also a human rights poetry website at: https://humanrightspoetryashbymcgowan.wordpress.com/
And a short story website at: https://ashbyshortstories.wordpress.com/
I also have automatic sendings of my posts on
WordPress to these two sites:
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ashbymcgowan
PROSE. Many years ago
I used to write a lot of factual prose. Twice I had serious complaints against
publishers. I was a Member of a professional body and also sought legal help
but on both occasions I was unable to do anything. I was so upset over what had
happened and the inability to something about it that I gave up writing factual
prose. That was fifteen years ago.
PLAYS. I have never
found a New Writing Theatre in Scotland (if such things exist) able to help me
develop and put on any of the plays I have written. None have ever come to any rehearsed readings
of my work that they have been invited to. And I have no connections in any Theatres
Poetry. In poetry,
conFAB is worth looking at for possible support.
Speaking for all the creative writing disciplines I have used,
I have never (apart from conFAB) had funding from any creative group or writing
group. Any Funding I (or Chromatic Voices) has had has come via the poetry
group conFAB.
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
DANCER
Dancer
1 Dancer 2
Blue fingered, dancers dreamlike, slowly moving, Light fingered, shadows seem like,
colours moving,
As we dance down, upper sky As we dance
dawn, passing by
Light lingered, shadows seem like, colours merging, Blue lingered, dancers dreamlike, slowly
merging,
As we dance dawn, passing by As we dance down,
upper sky
Past birds, past clouds, brown hills, green
fields, Fast birds, fast clouds,
green hills, brown fields,
And splashing white and grey, we dance And splashing grey and
white, we dance
Fast birds, fast clouds, green hills, brown
fields, Past birds, past clouds,
brown hills, green fields,
And splashing grey and white, we dance And splashing white and
grey, we dance
LOVING YOU
[This poem contains a few swear words.
I have used asterisks in these words
but when performed obviously the word is performed as intended.
This is a performance Poem for two (very over the top) Voices] LOVING YOU Voice 1 Voice 2 Love you ……………. …………….. Love you I love you ………………… …………. I love you I love you …………….. ………….. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I ……….. ……………… Love You ……. ……………… I love you! I love you lots and lots …………….. ………………… I love you more than life itself I love you more .......... than anything else ………………………. ……………………… I love you more than the stars ……………………………. love the sky I love you more than the ……………………………… Sea loves the shore ……………………………… ………………………….. I love you more than anyone has …………………………. ever loved anyone else I love you more than ...................... anyone has ……………………………. ever loved anyone else ………………………… …………………………… I love you more than that And I love you ........................ much more than that! ……………………….. …………………………….. I love you the most! No you don’t ………………… ………………………….. I do Don’t ….. ……………………………… Do! You only love me when ………………… you want something ……………….. ……………………………. Rubbish! You used to love me, ………………….. but now you’re only ………………… Nice to me when you’re …………………. drunk and you’re randy …………………….. ………………………………….. You Ba***rd! You Bas***rd! …………………. You F***ing Ba***rd! You F***ing Ba***rd! I love it when you talk dirty, …………….. Say some more …………………… ……………………… I really do love you, you sweet ………………………… And lovely Ba***rd Ohhh! Darling, I love you! Ohhh! Darling, I love you!
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