Thanks, Allyson!
"Oh, he's a bat! And so is his mom!"..."He's a boy. No one likes girl stories like I do."..."Ohhh, he's only one inch tall!"
And now there's complete silence.
You turned evil a lot faster than I thought you would.
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Deena - Sep 13, 2009 6:42:08 am PDT #2191 of 6690
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Allyson - Sep 13, 2009 9:16:33 am PDT #2192 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
That's great! Unless the silence is because she tossed it in the recycling bin and went outside to play.
Gudanov - Sep 13, 2009 10:03:10 am PDT #2193 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I expected feedback from both beta reader exchange people this weekend and no love. I know people get busy but the thing that keeps going through my mind is that nobody is getting back with me because it sucks so bad.
Gudanov - Sep 13, 2009 10:04:42 am PDT #2194 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Allyson, I can do more if you want, just not until after today. Also if you want my audio files I can give them to you before I erase them, you can hear your book read in a soft Scottish accent.
Deena - Sep 13, 2009 10:16:14 am PDT #2195 of 6690
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Oh no. She was completely absorbed. She didn't know what brambles are, and she didn't know what "spirit of his entire colony, all 84 thousand 6oo and 92 of them" (typed from her dictation) means, exactly, but thought it had something to do with feeling like he was back home. In the cave. Where his mom... DIED. She giggled out loud at one point, but I didn't want to interrupt her to find out where.
She read through page 22 and then went to watch cartoons. She said she'll read more tomorrow, but "it's reaaaally long, Mom." She told me to tell you also that it's AWE. SOME. She plans to email you when she's finished.
For perspective, she's the best reader in her 3rd grade class.
Allyson - Sep 13, 2009 11:41:48 am PDT #2196 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
If you feel like it, Gud, I'm always happy to receive feedback, but it would be too late to incorporate it.
Thanks for letting Kara read it, Deena!
SailAweigh - Sep 13, 2009 3:36:47 pm PDT #2197 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Anyone here using Word 2007? I'm having problems with cut-n-paste into the LJ posting box and I'm looking for advice.
Deena - Sep 13, 2009 4:07:04 pm PDT #2198 of 6690
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Allyson, no, thank you! Her birthday was Friday. Getting to read Sam was like an extra present.
Hey, Sail. I am. What's it doing?
SailAweigh - Sep 13, 2009 4:19:54 pm PDT #2199 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
It's losing it's paragraph spacing. I've had to go in and add an extra hard return between each paragraph in order for LJ to register that there's even one line between paragraphs.
Deena - Sep 13, 2009 4:37:56 pm PDT #2200 of 6690
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
The best fix I can see is to paste it into the TEXT tab, rather than the HTML tab. When you paste into a wysiwyg online editor from Word, it pastes in all of Words code. Not just web coding, but proprietary MS code, which the wysiwyg doesn't always recognize. I'm guessing the paragraph break is one of those things that's changed enough to be unrecognizable.
Doing it that way, if you've formatted words in italics, or underlined, or with links, those won't come through, but you can get around that by using the html code [i][/i] (only in carets) for example, around italicized words, within the text. Of course, it also loses the paragraph breaks, but you can see it immediately, and just use a hard return there (rather than code) to make it break properly.
Does that make sense?