Bandom Big Bang has renewed my love for bandom
Ohhh, my goodness. Last night and the wee hours of this morning, oh my goodness. Also, fuck Buzzword's formatting. It does not transfer well. In my BBB fic, see, it is set in the Depression, so I have all the dialogue italicized instead of with quotes around. It started off as experimental to see if it gave the fic an old-time-y-ish feel, and I must have either liked it or forgotten to go back to the normal way, because I have 72 pages of fic with all the talky bits italicized. But yes. I found something out at one in the morning or so, and it was this: even if you extract your Buzzword document to a Word document, the Word document will not transfer italics to your LJ. This is most vexing, and I spent literally two hours going through all 22 thousand and whatever words making sure all the dialogue was italicized.
Yes, I don't know, probably it might have been easier to just put in the damn quotation marks, but once I am on a mission I am on a mission and that is that. It is a family quirk passed down from my dad. We are like terriers; we just can't let things go like that.
But yes. Formatting madness. Perhaps it might have taken less time had I not been bitching about it to Alaska about it during those two hours. He was reading my fic, at the time, in order to help me come up with an ending line. :D :D He is the best. I came up with the ending line, but hey, he totally tried.
I feel so accomplished! Also a little sleepy; I passed out at 4:30 after explaining BBB and my story to Rady, finishing my desperate attempt at making I Want Out of the Circus posts conform to BBB guidelines and also look pretty, and stuffing my head under my pillow to squeal in glee and triumph. Mum woke me up at like 10:30, I stumbled downstairs to get brekkie, and I have gone for a run and signed up to work at a food bank. And after I go eat food I am going to pack, cos I get to go to my aunt's house on the beach for a week :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Tonight I will be getting, like, zero hours of sleep, because I want to go through BBB and read stories. Ohmygoodness, it feels sooooooo good to fall back in love <33333
Sleep is important, okay, I get it. However, I have gotten into rather a lot of sleep debt over the years and the only two causes that I had no regrets about were writing and reading fic. <3
Yes, I don't know, probably it might have been easier to just put in the damn quotation marks, but once I am on a mission I am on a mission and that is that. It is a family quirk passed down from my dad. We are like terriers; we just can't let things go like that.
But yes. Formatting madness. Perhaps it might have taken less time had I not been bitching about it to Alaska about it during those two hours. He was reading my fic, at the time, in order to help me come up with an ending line. :D :D He is the best. I came up with the ending line, but hey, he totally tried.
I feel so accomplished! Also a little sleepy; I passed out at 4:30 after explaining BBB and my story to Rady, finishing my desperate attempt at making I Want Out of the Circus posts conform to BBB guidelines and also look pretty, and stuffing my head under my pillow to squeal in glee and triumph. Mum woke me up at like 10:30, I stumbled downstairs to get brekkie, and I have gone for a run and signed up to work at a food bank. And after I go eat food I am going to pack, cos I get to go to my aunt's house on the beach for a week :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Tonight I will be getting, like, zero hours of sleep, because I want to go through BBB and read stories. Ohmygoodness, it feels sooooooo good to fall back in love <33333
Sleep is important, okay, I get it. However, I have gotten into rather a lot of sleep debt over the years and the only two causes that I had no regrets about were writing and reading fic. <3