Because I don't have a result waiting and I'm so self-centred I hadn't realized that today was a results day. Specifically a results day for the creative writing courses. People are now posting their work.
I haven't been reading these—the on line versions will come across as awful [at least on this site because the typography is rubbish]. Still, I plan a lazy Saturday of reading. So I've been copying everything as HTML into a text file.
I'll probably have to mess around with this, much CSS will have to be applied. I know that I can make this look great.
People just don't get typography. Well, they know their fonts, perhaps, but they don't see the other stuff. The leading, the rhythm and measure, the line-height and weight. They want to make a statement in type, when that's exactly what you should not be doing.
My nonsense is indeed nonsense but it is readable. And it's readable because I knew what I was about and spent ages doing it.
I now have a load of great stories, I sense a PDF.
[Nobody was clear about what license they were using, so I'm assuming a GPL type. If you posted a creative writing peice and don't want it included in the eCompendium then say so now.]
I've loved the tales by the way...