I love it Fay! But damn you for making me miss Firefly even more.

Fay! Firefly! wibble

Wow, Fay, that was very good.

I come here for help. I have a plotline in my mind, for a fic I want to write. But I've never written fic before. How do you guys recommend I start? Should I just start writing, from the beginning, and go until I'm done? Or should I plan breaks before I begin? Should I start with characterizations, thoughts, putting my mind into the mind of my subjects?

Basically, I'm wanting of help. =)

Just see what comes out,NC. Although I'm new to it as well.

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Here's a start.

(blinking)

Nova, not sure if it's you or me, but it's coming up on my machine (chapter one) as incredibly horizontal: a very looooong line that goes well beyond the width of my screen. I'm assuming it's a browser issue.

One thing jumped out, a typo you might want to fix pronto:

She fell prostate, sobbing,

ProstRATE. Not prostate.

Will try this again, and see if I can get the text to wrap.

edit: nope, I give up. It appears that my browser is reading this as a single long line that stretches on forever.

Formatting suggestions? I'd like to read it, but can't, not set up this way.

Wow, thanks Deb. Amazingly, I had prostrate first and "corrected" it backwards.

I'll see if I can't hard wrap the chapter for you, most browsers would wrap it but if it doesn't...

ETA: fixed it. It should be more readable now. Sorry 'bout that.

IE isn't wrapping it, either. I've seen this problem before with .txt files, but I forgot what the fix is.

I just made them into html files. Probably a good plan, anyway, as Fic is typically published online. =)

ETA: the problem with the text file was almost certainly caused by my computer being a Mac, and your Windows machine getting confused by the different style of line breaks.

There we go. Readable now. Thanks, Nova.

It's a very promising beginning, in terms of story. How deep an edit were you looking for, and would you rather wait until there's more of it to wortk with?