NaNoWriMo is 50K words.
Ah. So I'd have hit the target if I'd just written that extra 49,990 words, then? I thought it was only 39,990 I was short.
I ♥ Fay.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Steph L. - Dec 30, 2002 2:14:19 pm PST #2319 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Connie Neil - Dec 30, 2002 2:15:45 pm PST #2320 of 10000
brillig
Times New Roman also uses space between letters in an odd way. Courier, I believe, is not kerned (which I think means squishes the letters together so you don't have big spaces to either side of the letter i).
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 3:42:15 pm PST #2321 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Courier is monospace; all of the characters (m, i, 7, and the space) are exactly the same width. That's really its main attraction. So, yeah, I don't think it's got very widely-varying kerning in between letters.
Everything submitted for publication in the humanities in the US has to be twelve-point Courier, double-spaced.
Which, btw, is so. fucking. annoying when you've got to edit it. And, you're, you know, me, and hate Courier.
If you submit it with a wordcount you did yr very own self, it shouldn't matter what font.
Susan W. - Dec 30, 2002 3:50:46 pm PST #2322 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Courier hurts my eyes, with all that gappiness where no gaps should be.
esse - Dec 30, 2002 3:53:24 pm PST #2323 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
On the other hand, the only thing I can write in now in Courier New. Ten point Courier New. Because the characters are exactly the same width; anything else does funny things to my eyes.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 3:57:14 pm PST #2324 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I used to really like Courier New. Then, for a time, I was shockingly in love with Courier.
Now I like Times. 12 point. 1.5 spaced. Don't place me near Times New Roman; I'll growl.
Fay - Dec 30, 2002 4:01:05 pm PST #2325 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I'm currently having a fling with Century Gothic. The clean Art Deco-ish lines please me.
Susan W. - Dec 30, 2002 4:06:43 pm PST #2326 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I use boring old 12-point Times New Roman for almost everything, except my resume, which is in some sans serif font whose name I can't recall at the moment, because it's more legible in smaller font size. And, I did it that way to start with and have never completely rebuilt the thing--just added onto it as I've gone along.
I love Trajan, but you couldn't write a story in it.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 4:06:59 pm PST #2327 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I don't have it on my computer, so your files come up looking like Times 13. Which is a perfectly lovely thing, but hard to edit in. (I change them to Verdana 9. I'm sure you change them back as soon as you get them.)
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P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 4:16:24 pm PST #2328 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My love affair is with Trebuchet MS. I can't explain it, but it pleases me. At 10pt, the r's are Just dreamy... rarrr.
IJS.