Oh, Jilli. That's perfectly turned. Thank you. And please say thank you to the devilbunny for me, as well. I shall see what I can do about bringing my back stock of mind control lasers to the F2F.

Jilli, I love your take, because I don't really have anything angry or hurtful for this topic. I almost don't have anything fanciful like your own, either.

Karl, I can feel your piece in my belly. Ooof.

Maybe I should write about a white one...like if I'm myself, people will like me. Well, now, but at sixteen? Because I was this, pretty much, though I tried not to be, then.

Jilli's drabble makes me t heart her even more than I did before, and that's saying something.

Karl, your piece is powerful regardless of its "truth" in reality. Yes, of course it helps me to know you better--I believe that stories are the only way we really ever learn each other.

In meme news, I know I haven't been posting drabbles in months despite some kick ass topics. I've felt...just...blocked lately. I guess it shouldn't be surprising given the overwhelming changes in my life this year, but it's frustrating. Is there a master list of all the drabble topics? Eventually I want to go back through and do a drabble for all of the ones I missed.

Writers, do any of you use the Master Document feature in Word to create chapters, or do you just keep writing straight through without separating chapters?

I've always used a separate document for each chapter while writing. Not sure why. Just seems easier to me.

Of course, not a pro, so not sure how much my methods really matter.

Master Document is notoriously buggy.

Of course, long docs in Word are also notoriously buggy.

Suggestions, Dana? Or do I just weep?

Definitely avoid Master Document. I've never heard anything good about it. I like the idea of keeping chapters in separate documents. You might also have an easier time with long documents (100 pages or more) if you don't have a lot of formatting. The stuff I work with usually has lots of numbered lists and the like, and they have a bad tendency to reset themselves or change numbers spontaneously.

Edit: And, of course, save constantly and back up obsessively.

I never use Master Document and I work with 100+ page docs all the time. With my largest doc (300+ pages) I keep it in separate chapters when in draft and then put it in one document at the end and add the table of contents and that's worked out pretty well. I never, ever use automatic numbering (except for page numbers in the footers). That's a recipe for fuckedupedness.