Crossword Puzzle - Stephen's Library

Let's peruse Stephen's Library today. Get nice and comfy with a steaming hot mug of hot chocolate - I'm pretty sure it wards off vampires.

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Crossword Puzzle - Creature Feature

This crossword puzzle ventures into the dark realm of the things that go bump in the night and is called Creature Feature.

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Crossword Puzzle - That's Funny

This is freakin' hilarious ... or rather the topic of the theme is, hence the title That's Funny.

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Crossword Puzzle - Double Feature

Can you smell the popcorn? Here comes your Saturday matinee Double Feature. Of course, if you're in Denver, that means one of the Landmark theatres because they use real butter on their popcorn. Good, good stuff.

I'm sorry, where was I? Oh, please enjoy this crossword puzzle. Please!

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Crossword Puzzle - Girl Power

Ready for some Girl Power? This is the latest crossword puzzle. Have fun!

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Crossword Puzzle - Family Ties

Family Ties is the latest crossword puzzle. Have fun!

Oh, and before I forget. There's now a crossword puzzle page on the site. Click the link in here or click the link up above in the menu bar.

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Crossword Puzzle - Of the Federation

Here's the very first crossword puzzle for you playing pleasure. It's called Of the Federation. Why, yes, it might have something to do with Star Trek.

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Crossword Puzzles!! SF-Colorado Now Offering Crossword Puzzles

I've started creating speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror) crossword puzzles. Click here to try the very first one, which is titled "Of the Federation." You can also click here or click the Crossword link in the menu bar above to see all of our crossword puzzles.

WARNING. The "Clear ALL" button is awfully close to the "Check Answer" button. There is NO undo, so if you accidentally click "Clear ALL" ... well, you're screwed. Sorry. I couldn't see a way to alter the button locations without delving into javascript. I'm not a programmer, but I might try playing with it later on. We'll see. Just be careful. 'Kay? There is also no "Save" button as of yet. I might be able to add one at a later date, but I'm not sure about that right now.

HOW IT WORKS. Click inside the puzzle to begin. Press the ENTER key to move from word to word. Click the yellow square to change between "across" and "down." Click on the clues (on the right-hand side of the puzzle) to go to that word in the puzzle. I've provided a rundown of the buttons farther on in this post.

LEAVE COMMENTS. Heh. I'm a little leery of posting these crossword puzzles so PLEASE leave comments on this post if you like it, don't like it, the puzzle didn't work, it was too easy, it was too hard, or it was just right for Baby Bear. It's presented through Java, so you have to have your browser java-enabled. The program I use to create them is called Crossword-Compiler. It's a really cool program.

AND ANOTHER THING. And please note, I'm not a professional builder of crosswords. I've tried to stick to normal American crossword conventions, but since I don't actually know what all of the conventions are, I'm sure I broke the rules in places. But each puzzle will have a theme (implied (or is it inferred?) in the title) with theme words; I think a minimum of three theme words, but as soon as I say that, I'll have a puzzle with only two. So far they've been three and four theme words. This puzzle has four.

THE BUTTONS. Here's a rundown of what the buttons do:

• Clear ALL. Clears the entire puzzle. NO UNDO!!
• Check Answer. Checks all the letters you've entered on the entire puzzle and REMOVES the incorrect ones. It removes letters, not words.
• Reveal Letter. Reveals the letter that the yellow square (cursor) is on.
• Reveal Word. Reveals the word the yellow square (cursor) is in.
• Reveal Puzzle. Shows you the entire solution.
• View in PDF for printing. Okay, not a button, but it displays a blank PDF version of the puzzle that you can print out and fill out in pen (or pencil).

I guess that's it.

Enjoy!

Oh, and P.S.

The plan right now is to put up a new puzzle each week. Probably over the weekend. I should probably be a little more specific, but I'm wingin' it here, people.

Welcome to the New Speculative Fiction of Colorado

Exciting, ain't it? I started this website about 7 1/2 years ago. Click here to read the post about the beginning of this site. The site changed some over the years, but nothing too drastic. Just a simple HTML site created first in FrontPage and then Dreamweaver. But that's mostly behind me now because I've joined the Age of Blogs.

My hope is to create a more interactive experience as all y'all leave comments and discuss things amongst yourselves, provide a cleaner-n-leaner site, and ultimately provide you with a fantastic web experience as you ... ah, who am I kidding? I got sick (and tired) of updating in HTML and ftp-ing pages to the website. What a pain. Using a blog site (blogger.com, thanks Google!) to do all that for me (after a bit of template tweaking on my part) makes this process quite a bit easier.

But despite my motives being suspect, I do hope you enjoy the new site. Let me know if you have any suggestions (click the Comments link below). For instance, do we want a page of links to the blogs of writers? Seems like a good idea, but so did jumping out of a tree with a sheet as a parachute once upon a time.

Take care.

Gary
January 3, 2008 (already? what happened to Y2K?)

Speculative Fiction of Colorado - The Beginning

Speculative Fiction of Colorado supports the science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror writing scene in Colorado.

I didn't keep records of when I started this website. I think it happened in 2000, and roughly during the spring/summer. Pretty sure it was between jobs as I remember days of just sitting at the computer and hammering out the site in FrongPage. Then I distinctly remember sitting in my cubicle when I contracted with the City and Country of Denver as a tech writer and looking up printers for some bookmarks I was printing up for the upcoming MileHiCon. I also got some t-shirts and post-it notes printed up. I then reserved the Con Suite at MHC for two hours and served peanut butter chocolate chip cookies that I baked myself (store-bought pre-baked cookies NEVER have enough semi-sweet chocolate chips). I gave t-shirts away as prizes and even gave away a nice gift certificate to Amazon to get people to sign up for the mailing list. Of course, I haven't sent out email in, oh, a couple of years now. Such is life.

That's my very hazy recollection of this site's beginnings. I still wear a couple of the t-shirts. And, yes, at some point I'll take them off and maybe even wash them.