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Exaltation and aggravation
The exaltation is that my partner is here for a visit and we’re on the road, wandering around the mountains of Washington. So far, we’ve mostly seen rain, clouds, trees, and – well, rocks and trees and trees and rocks and waterrrrrr!! But it’s all lovely.
Another bit of exaltation, easier to share, is that I got chapter 12 of Reverb finished, with some lingering holes patched (thanks![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kirsty841 and pepper_field!!), and finally posted! I’ll post a teaser and a link next.
The aggravation is that fanfic.net, aka The Pit, has once again tweaked their coding so that, once again EVERY SINGLE TEXT SPACER IN EVERY DAMNED STORY has been parsed out. I used to use ASCII characters, and ff.net tweaked its code so that they vanished from the displayed text. I switched to lines. Parsed out. Most recently, I switched to using dashes. Well, guess what’s been parsed out!?!
I have the most recent half-dozen chapters of Reverb still in the Docs Manager, so I replaced the lost spacers in those with a text spacer ( - x - ) that I hope will stay in place. But the spacers are important, damn it. I rely on pacing in my writing, and that’s a critical part of the pacing, not to mention key to basic reading comprehesion. Now I can either live with retroactively f*cked-up fiction, or go back and fix a couple of hundred thousand words of text.
And yes, I know that there are other archives. But the readers are in the Pit, and I have to be where the readers are. I've posted some pieces to other archives, and the traffic just isn't there.
Well, it’ll give me something to do while I’m mentally chewing over chapter 13, which is following the current tradition of being very reluctant to get started. As long as it also follows the pattern of coming together well when it finally does agree to get out of bed, I shall be content.
'Beth
May 2010
Another bit of exaltation, easier to share, is that I got chapter 12 of Reverb finished, with some lingering holes patched (thanks
kirsty841 and pepper_field!!), and finally posted! I’ll post a teaser and a link next.The aggravation is that fanfic.net, aka The Pit, has once again tweaked their coding so that, once again EVERY SINGLE TEXT SPACER IN EVERY DAMNED STORY has been parsed out. I used to use ASCII characters, and ff.net tweaked its code so that they vanished from the displayed text. I switched to lines. Parsed out. Most recently, I switched to using dashes. Well, guess what’s been parsed out!?!
I have the most recent half-dozen chapters of Reverb still in the Docs Manager, so I replaced the lost spacers in those with a text spacer ( - x - ) that I hope will stay in place. But the spacers are important, damn it. I rely on pacing in my writing, and that’s a critical part of the pacing, not to mention key to basic reading comprehesion. Now I can either live with retroactively f*cked-up fiction, or go back and fix a couple of hundred thousand words of text.
And yes, I know that there are other archives. But the readers are in the Pit, and I have to be where the readers are. I've posted some pieces to other archives, and the traffic just isn't there.
Well, it’ll give me something to do while I’m mentally chewing over chapter 13, which is following the current tradition of being very reluctant to get started. As long as it also follows the pattern of coming together well when it finally does agree to get out of bed, I shall be content.
'Beth
May 2010
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Again? Dang.
*checks own stories* (Thankfully, most of mine don't have scene breaks!)
It seems that long lines of periods or of asterisks haven't been phased out yet. I think I may go back to the distracting but occasionally helpful convention of putting things like "SG1SG1SG1SG1" between scenes, though.
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God DAMMIT!
And I'm with you on the readers thing. It's true and there you go. I so can't redo all my stories, so they will have to exist as is, but man that is irritating! I'll go to a text breaker now. Gr! Argh!
Oh, and on another note - squee for you and Melissa! Have fun! Nice use of Arrogant Worms lyrics!
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The oldie but goody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlQeW2HN0U0
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And I usually put ***** in the middle of the page in between chapters in my stories. But I don't post on FF.net anyway.
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On the second ***** would not work on ff.net. That's what we're talking about. Neither will dashes, periods, commas, or any other non-text-based line break.
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Astra, who ran off to another fandom and just wrote her first Dr. Who FF...
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And good for you!
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At least DW fandom has its own archive -- Teaspoon -- which, I gather, does get traffic.
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Actually I thought my first story would be about Captain Jack Harkness, since I know the character so much better than the doctor. Seems life had other plans ;)
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Argh.
And we have just spent another day admiring rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks. And water.
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*beams*
And again, love those Worms!
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