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]

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*

Actually, if you'd like (and no worries about it, cos I've never done it myself) - the way I've noticed some people doing the trailers, so that people can see where they are, is in a separate cut. So the story itself goes under the first cut (d'you use the html window, or rich text?) and then the trailer goes under a second cut, so there are "cut titles" if you like for them both - so if they want to see the trailer first then they can, and if they want to go straight to the story, they can... I can tell you more specifically if you use html, but not so much if you use the rich text window to post, cos I never do... *g*

I can also erase this modly thread too... *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...

I'm wondering if the two-cut-scroll thing is a new-ish lj thing, actually, because I've not noticed it before and it seems like a nice way around the header-spoiler thing (if you can get people to remember to use it, of course - if they forget at the bottom, you're not spoiled anyway, but if they forget at the top - automatic spoilers...)

[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!