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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