Quick ff.net question and sad life news
Nov. 28th, 2007 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I started killing time over lunch posting "Two Dads" and "Lost Boys" on ff.net. One odd thing-- it seems to be ignoring my *** between segments. What do people use to show a break between sections within a chapter? And is it possible to get that in there by editing the file already uploaded, or do I have to delete and resubmit?
Thanks to anyone who can point me the right direction.
Oh-- here's my page over there, for anyone who wants it: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1292602/
In much more serious news, my son's friend's mom, the one who's had cancer all year, and who recently was given what they thought was a clean bill of health, was moved to hospice yesterday. Those who are inclined to pray or send positive energy to her and her family, please do. I am mostly doing the avoidance thing, because otherwise I get so angry at life's unfairness that I can't think straight. And I am not looking forward to telling Wee Hob tonight.
I better get back to it. Hugs to all.
Thanks to anyone who can point me the right direction.
Oh-- here's my page over there, for anyone who wants it: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1292602/
In much more serious news, my son's friend's mom, the one who's had cancer all year, and who recently was given what they thought was a clean bill of health, was moved to hospice yesterday. Those who are inclined to pray or send positive energy to her and her family, please do. I am mostly doing the avoidance thing, because otherwise I get so angry at life's unfairness that I can't think straight. And I am not looking forward to telling Wee Hob tonight.
I better get back to it. Hugs to all.
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Date: 2007-11-28 06:56 pm (UTC)between sections. You can do that by going to the "Documents" section, edit the documents (the horizontal line is inserted with one of the buttons, next to the bold and italic things) and then under Stories->Edit->Content/Chapters choosing "Replace chapter" way at the bottom and replacing the content of a chapter with the edited document.
Did that make sense...?
So very sorry to hear about your son's friend's mom.
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Date: 2007-11-28 11:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-28 06:57 pm (UTC)As far as section breaks, I use MWMWMW. It seems to work.
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Date: 2007-11-29 12:18 am (UTC)Still, it would be nice if it was a dynamic link, where the story just displayed the current version whatever it was, without having to explicitly update.
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Date: 2007-11-28 09:10 pm (UTC)If you can find a way to handle the anger, try to do something that isn't avoidance mode. These folks need all the support they can get. Hell, they may even need a safe place to be angry, too.
Whatever you can do or whatever you can't handle, though, I'm sending hugs and positive thoughts to everyone involved. I've also got a couple friends who are big on prayer and candle-lighting. I'll get them right on it, too.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-28 11:56 pm (UTC)Thanks to you, and your candle lighting friends.
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Date: 2007-11-28 09:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-28 10:40 pm (UTC)If you need to avoid it for your own peace of mind, do so. But if you can, you might try to visit with her- particularly if you know her well. :(
You and the Wee Hob will be in my thoughts this afternoon.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-29 07:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-29 05:52 pm (UTC)I also will keep your son’s friend and you in my prayers. Take care.
My post.
Date: 2007-11-29 05:56 pm (UTC)I'm meant to login before I posted. So the anonymous post was mine.
Re: My post.
Date: 2007-11-29 06:30 pm (UTC)Re: My post.
Date: 2007-11-29 09:48 pm (UTC)Re: My post.
Date: 2007-11-30 12:29 am (UTC)As to ff.net, the conversation with
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I'll get over and friend you back in a minute. Thanks for reading and reviewing. What kinds of fic are you interested in? I have gravitated towards Buffy/Giles in the Buffy realm and Snape/Hermione in the HP realm, mostly because of Giles and Snape. Whatever else one may say about it, intimate relationships have a lot of potential for exploring interesting characters and seeing how they react under extreme situations and stimuli. I can't write it, but some of it's fun to read. I prefer genfic though.
Anyway, you may see me rec stuff from time to time as I come across new stuff(or check my tags for "fic rec" and see what comes up), and
Welcome to fandom, and thanks again for reading.
Hob
Re: My post.
Date: 2007-11-30 06:05 pm (UTC)What I am writing are childhood stories of Lily and Severus. I don’t know why, but I am. I am also writing a lot of dialogue, which is usually not my style. I don’t have a beta so my mistakes are my own, but I figured if I didn’t post I would never move. You know how it is sometimes you can keep on revising and revising a story. So I just did it.
Re: My post.
Date: 2007-11-30 06:39 pm (UTC)My first fanfic, "Summer" was about 3 years in the making, and the final version is much changed from the original posting of it. I even make changes from time to time when I reread anything now. It's my LJ, so I can do that. I was surprised how much things had changed in so short a time when I compared the "final" versions of "Two Dads" to the LJ version out there today, only a month or so after first posting.
As you make friends or find people saying sensible things as feedback, try to get some of them to beta work for you-- it's more than just fixing grammar; it's helpful to figure out what you're trying to do with a story, when you discuss it with somebody else. And by all means read fic postmortems if writers leave them. That's another way to learn a lot and be more aware of the process.
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Date: 2007-11-30 09:19 pm (UTC)