Being a Better Writer: What Makes a Protagonist?

All right. So, yesterday's incarnation of this post, to what is now great irony, started with a worried critique of Wordpress' freshly rolled out posting interface. To be specific, it critiqued the poor interface design, but also noted with a faint hint of worry that something so new was bound to have some surprises of a possibly unpleasant variety.

Oh, did it ever. The posting interface glitched out completely at the conclusion of my article, not only refusing to allow it to be posted, but also not letting me copy-paste it to save it. Worse, the manual "save draft" button had been removed altogether for the standard autosave. It used to have both, but I guess they thought having a manual draft save was too confusing. Either way, the autosave feature had also bugged out after I'd hit return on the first paragraph.

The end result was, well, the loss of the entire post. A post that had worried at the start about such an eventuality possibly happening. What can I say? Wordpress has changed several times now, and each time I've been less than impressed.

Thankfully, today's post should not have any problems (crosses fingers). After contacting Wordpress via Twitter, one of the cofounders drew my attention to a "Admin" button that allows one to access the old, default posting suite. Which I think I'll be using from now on, as it's the more functional of the two current options. I'd like to use the middle one, as that had some nice Twitter-tie-in functionality, but I'll take losing that but being able to post over the inverse.

So, with that out of the way, let's get down to business on this now twice-delayed topic, eh?

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