Someone asked about how to access the essays I’m posting. I guess all those dysfunctional email membership cells littering the site are confusing some people. Apparently.

Sorry about that, folks. The idea was good: you just put in your email address and the rest of the work is basically done for you in a message emailed to your account. Only the god of the internet (I imagine him to be a mixture of Loki and Pan, only wearing a tri-corner hat and with a top of the line pocket protector) refuses to spit out the membership messages as planned. So if you’re interested in joining the membership section of the site, here’s what you do:

Pray to this fickle being and ask him to give you a password.

OR…

1) Click “Login” on the navigation bar above OR go to the Home Page and at the bottom left of the page you’ll see a section called Why Join? Ignore the cell at the bottom and instead click the “register here” in gold.

2) Click “Register”

3) Put in your user name and email address.

4) You should receive instructions about where to go from there in the email account you gave.

By the way, I strongly suggest you indicate that you want your computer to remember you whenever you come to the site so you don’t have to log on every time. I’m afraid the passwords are automatically formulated and so they’re impossible to remember. Once you’re a member you’ll find that other areas of the site exist that you’ve never seen before (just like magic!). So far, the only one of these that’s up and going is the essay section (there’s some good stuff here, though). But as soon as my book releases I’ll start posting annotated chapters in another section. This should be interesting for anyone who wants particulars on how and why I wrote a real manuscript the way I did. I’ll have comments about where ideas originated, particulars on the drafting and revision process, as well as pointers about my own compositional choices and why I write the way I do. It should provide a more specific and intimate glimpse of my writing methodology than anything else, and some people have expressed interest in this. Again, look for it as soon as Green Dragon Codex releases on June 9th.

In the future, I’ll continue to post essays on writing and publishing (as long as people keep asking questions) as well as additional chapter annotations on GDC and future books.

Oh, for anyone who didn’t know, there is a writing sample from GDC available on the site for free. If you’re interested, just go to “Clint’s Work”>>”Green Dragon Codex”>>”Chapter 1″, or you can click here. It’ll give you an idea of what the book has in store.

Does that help everyone who’d like to join the site but has been confused by all the things I’ve put around here that don’t work? Yeah, um, ignore that stuff please. I’m still hoping that one day the Loki-Pan god of the web can be cajoled to stop hoarding those membership messages and make my life simpler.