Ficlet: A Palpable Hit

[moth2fic]

*creeps out of lurkerdom and winces at the brightness of the sunshine on the snow*

It's only 518 words and hasn't had any beta input but please enjoy! It was our lane and car park that inspired me so have a picture, too. (There's a trailer at the end but I don't know how to point to it from here.)

Comments

[byslantedlight]

Ooh, not read it yet, but with modly-hat on, could you possibly put the story and trailer under a cut, please? The pic is fine left out at the top though - fun! *g* Thank you!

ETA - Oh, and I've just noticed it's locked too - would you mind terribly unlocking it? There are still some non-lj people who like to see the stories etc from Dialj too... (If you've got a very specific reason for locking, then do let me know!)

[moth2fic]

Hope I've sorted it out. *beats self over the head and is mortified* I hadn't realised the locking worked that way - as you know, my own journal is locked down very tight!! I never thought of non-LJ readers. And sorry about the lack of cut. I'll learn - promise - or just crawl back under a rock somewhere!!

[byslantedlight]

Nononononono! No need for beating! *g* Lots of people seem to lock their ljs these days (it didn't seem to be so much when I first came onto lj - that's how the world goes, I guess... *g*) so no worries. I don't think we even mention it on the user page, just assume that people will default to unlocked - I'll see what I can do about that, in fact. And no worries about the cut either, it's easy enough to mention... *g

[moth2fic]

Leave the modly thread! Other newbies might find it useful! I use html so pleas elaborate about the cuts. obviously I know how to do a cut but not two! Or at least, not like that!

[byslantedlight]

Oh okay, it shall stay then... *g*

To do two cuts you just need to end the first cut, and then start a new one. You end it with <*/lj-cut*> (without the asterisks, of course!) at the end of the story/pics/whatever, and then just start the next one as normal. So you can have a zillion different cuts in a single post, if you like... *g*

[moth2fic]

But don't they all open when you open the first? That's my experience with other people's LJs and pics and comments. *puzzles and goes away shaking head*

[byslantedlight]

They do all open, but the top of the window opens to the top of the cut - a good example is on Day 24 of the Christmas Stocking challenge (KWS's day). So if you click on the trailer info first, the first line of that is at the top of the screen, and you don't see the story first. If you click on the cut for the story, then the screen opens scrolled higher up. It doesn't work if the fic is very very short, so that it'd be all on the same screen anyway, but in other cases it might be useful... Save all those warn-me-now-ers fretting, and mean that people are less likely to be spoiled. In fact, come to think of it, it should work the other way around too, and maybe even better - if you clicked on the story cut, then it'd take you below the header, so you'd miss it either way

[moth2fic]

*thinks understanding is just possibly dawning*

Thanks for your patience! *g*

[byslantedlight]

Hee - any time! *g* Now please write some more fic for us? *vbg*

[moth2fic]

* has longer (a bit) fic ready for Valentine's Day - clutches it tightly*

[byslantedlight]

Lol - is that a request for a Valentine's Day challenge?! *g*

[moth2fic]

Well, sort of, though I have no idea whether I'll be in UK or online. But somebody (you?) can post it for me if I'm not... and whether there's a challenge or not!