The Resident and her Place

I'm still on the learning curve with blogspot.  The layout got messed up when I tried adding things to the sidebar and it took me the morning to straighten it out.  It is time-consuming so bear with me. Back in the day, I knew all about HTML and CSS spreadsheets. Looks like they're not even necessary here. Just the same. Learning curve.

I'm the lone resident of this blog: my words and my works, unless I'm quoting someone in which case the proper grammar of attribution will be applied. Having links and blogs on the sidebar do not necessarily mean endorsements of their contents. Comments are the responsibility of the commenters and do not imply agreement, especially if I don't reply. I do delete spammy comments pronto and immediately---we all know what a spam looks like -- and I will delete comments that highjack the original post.  And I shouldn't have to teach about plagiarism and intellectual property rights. You take what's mine, it's stealing. There are laws against stealing and there's still a social stigma against that.

I also want to make something clear. I'm a conservative, traditionalist, mantilla-wearing, Latin-Mass-attending Catholic. One of my novels, Kingslyn (working title), will reflect a lot of that. I will appreciate critiques of my work, but not criticism of the Catholic Church. Be hostile all you want to my writings but any comments hostile to my faith will be deleted. Hey, if you want to bash Catholicism and Catholics, go to your own blog and bash away! But not here, thank you.

And I require standard English usage, not leet or tweet or text speak.  They have their place but are not needed here since there are no set character limits here...that I'm aware of. I don't want to have to decipher them. 

No swearing or cussing or bigoted, racist, ad hominem comments. 

There. My house rules are simple and there are not many. But don't test me. I really do not like disciplining netizens who ought to know better but because they have the screen to hide behind, they think they are being cool when breaking rules. Nope.

But I do welcome and much appreciate what you think of my writings. Critiques and discussions are great! My goal is to write, and write well, hence this blog! Thank you.