Message to Carly

DON'T PANIC!

Hint! Hint! Hint!

You find and click on the link. A moment later you are here, on The Mâvarin Experiments stealth blog. You congratulate yourself, because surely this is one of the three secrets of that other blog entry.

You look around, and you see that the stealth blog was indeed used to experiment with the template changes later used on Outpost Mâvarin. It occurs to you that Shelly probably gave useful advice on the subject; and you're right. She did.

You think that photo with the river doesn't look like anything taken in the Arizona desert. You are correct. It's MS Office clip art. Even so, it looks remarkably like the River Misis in Mâvarin - not that you've ever seen such a place yourself! If you are a photographer with a river nearby, you think about some of the great pictures you've taken, there and elsewhere.

It occurs to you that the entry on this stealth blog is slightly different from the Outpost one. This one reads more like a Choose Your Own Adventure than the Outpost entry does. Was the book about the child going to the moon a Choose Your Own Adventure? No, it couldn't be, you decide. There probably weren't any books like that back in the early 1960s. Still, the book with "...Go to the Moon" in the title does have important points in common with the later kids' books. In fact, there was a 1971 edition of the book, you discover, as well as the 1959 one. The later date is pretty close to the time of those other books you remember.



If you think you know all three secrets of the Outpost entry, click here.
If you want to read about the moon book, click here.
If you want to prove that you found the stealth blog, click here.
If you want to benefit from great blogging advice from someone who knows what a "static background" is, click here.

Crappy Screwy Sheets (CSS)

Time to use my stealth blog for its intended purpose: to experiment with blog design. So here's nothin'!

K.

My Snowman

Here's your stealth entry for this week. I grew up with this candle, back in Manlius, NY, the Land of Ice and Snow. When my parents got divorced in 1976, my mom started to burn this candle, as her way of saying goodbye to winter. I started to cry. She got mad at me for not wanting her to burn the candle, but I got my way. The snowman is here in Tucson with me, in this very room, 29 years later.

Karen

Tonight's stealth entry

Writer's Weekly Question #7: Is there one character that you have created that is truly you and not just a "shard?" What makes that character totally you and where does that character fit into your fiction?

Someday I'll write an answer to this. Short version:

No.

Thisaway Blue

Is this better?

I think so, but I hate those arrows. And when I deleted them I ended up with no light colored background for the entries themselves. Drat.

The secret word is turkey.

I don't think I like Minima much.

Secretly yours,
Karen

This is a test

This is a test of the Minima template. A blogger in your area has set up this test blog to facilitate customization of Outpost Mâvarin and other blogs without disaster along the way. If this had been actual blogging, there would have been some darned interesting entries here. As it is, this is only a test. You are instructed to read Outpost Mâvarin instead for further updates. Oh, and Messages from Mâvarin, too. Not nearly enough people read that.

K