I'm still such a rookie
Posting my ts big bang story has driven me to drink. And it is delicious. My husband and I found a hidden (by him) bottle of Peach Brandy, and I've dumped some in a mug along with warmed up Almond milk (40 calories a cup, which evens out the fact that I've also been driven by the craziness to nibble on the Thanksgiving Pumpkin Roll) and the combination is scrumptious. Yum.
I am embarrassed to admit how much time I've spent fooling trying to get my post right, and especially how much time it took to get the fan-mixes finished up. And they're still screwed up. I suggested on my post that people put them in order on their playlist, using the list I had on the post.
There will probably be less than ten people who even download it, so why I get all worked up about shows how much I am an idiot. But darn it, I had the songs in a sequential order to go along with the story. I kind of hate that it's fucked up.
It was yesterday afternoon when I started this. (Next year, I'm working on the posting weeks ahead of time) I thought I'd have it done by around midnight or so. Hah. I finally gave up and went to bed at four am, after wrestling with art work -- and a lot of emails and even a phone call from Luna who is the artist. And now the big banner won't load. I think maybe it's too big and LJ and DW are having a fit about it. Then I've spent most of the day till around eight o'clock, still making links, correcting coding mistakes, trying to figure just where in the hell my posts went to -- for the record, if you set the date ahead, like I did, and then you don't actually put into public view for hours and hours later, it's no longer ahead and you should uncheck that little box that says the date is out of order. For a while I thought they'd gone into the twilight zone. I couldn't find them on my friends list.
And the fan-mixes. I could cry about it, but I'll man up (woman up?) and just drink the Peach Brandy instead. I should have finished it up sooner this week but I was still fiddling with trying for the exactly right songs. I hold auditions in my car while I'm driving or while I'm walking (which I've done no exercise at all for the last two days) or doing chores around the house. Anyway, yesterday I finished up the one fan-mix, which was the only one I was going to do, and I went to burn a test CD of it.
WTF? On my playlist it all fit on one CD. However, when I used the folder that I had painstakingly made so it could be uploaded, and did this kind of thing: 01_Path_of_Sorrow in front of the actual information the song came with, all so that the songs would record in the order that I wanted them to be in, well, it didn't fit. Mind you, it was the same 24 songs. How could there end up an extra ten minutes or so when the playlist came in right at seventy-nine? Okay, then. So the last songs would have to go on a new CD and there would be a lot of wasted space so I made two short fan-mixes for the two time stamps I had written.
Then I uploaded them but the file was too big, and wouldn't download right. I uploaded three separate files then. More time gone. And then when I did another test CD, even though it had looked in the right order, it scrambled them according to the values on the tracks, which I cannot change. I've tried. I've tried and tried and it just strips out whatever I renamed and reverts back to what it wants.
This was very frustrating. In the meantime, I did my fan-mix post, which meant I had to look up lyrics and selections in along with quotes from the story. IT TOOK FOREVER.
Oh, and my word program, Open Office writer crashed, delaying me on that end.
And AO3, after I filled out the blanks, etc, and copy and posted chapter one, crashed while I was saving it. I haven't tried it again, yet but I suppose I will after I post this.
Well, the story is posted now, the links all work, I think, it looks nice with the art work Luna did, although there's still that problem with the big banner.
I guess I'll give posting at ASR3 and AO3 another shot.
I feel nicely warmed up by the brandy, at least.
Laurie
I am embarrassed to admit how much time I've spent fooling trying to get my post right, and especially how much time it took to get the fan-mixes finished up. And they're still screwed up. I suggested on my post that people put them in order on their playlist, using the list I had on the post.
There will probably be less than ten people who even download it, so why I get all worked up about shows how much I am an idiot. But darn it, I had the songs in a sequential order to go along with the story. I kind of hate that it's fucked up.
It was yesterday afternoon when I started this. (Next year, I'm working on the posting weeks ahead of time) I thought I'd have it done by around midnight or so. Hah. I finally gave up and went to bed at four am, after wrestling with art work -- and a lot of emails and even a phone call from Luna who is the artist. And now the big banner won't load. I think maybe it's too big and LJ and DW are having a fit about it. Then I've spent most of the day till around eight o'clock, still making links, correcting coding mistakes, trying to figure just where in the hell my posts went to -- for the record, if you set the date ahead, like I did, and then you don't actually put into public view for hours and hours later, it's no longer ahead and you should uncheck that little box that says the date is out of order. For a while I thought they'd gone into the twilight zone. I couldn't find them on my friends list.
And the fan-mixes. I could cry about it, but I'll man up (woman up?) and just drink the Peach Brandy instead. I should have finished it up sooner this week but I was still fiddling with trying for the exactly right songs. I hold auditions in my car while I'm driving or while I'm walking (which I've done no exercise at all for the last two days) or doing chores around the house. Anyway, yesterday I finished up the one fan-mix, which was the only one I was going to do, and I went to burn a test CD of it.
WTF? On my playlist it all fit on one CD. However, when I used the folder that I had painstakingly made so it could be uploaded, and did this kind of thing: 01_Path_of_Sorrow in front of the actual information the song came with, all so that the songs would record in the order that I wanted them to be in, well, it didn't fit. Mind you, it was the same 24 songs. How could there end up an extra ten minutes or so when the playlist came in right at seventy-nine? Okay, then. So the last songs would have to go on a new CD and there would be a lot of wasted space so I made two short fan-mixes for the two time stamps I had written.
Then I uploaded them but the file was too big, and wouldn't download right. I uploaded three separate files then. More time gone. And then when I did another test CD, even though it had looked in the right order, it scrambled them according to the values on the tracks, which I cannot change. I've tried. I've tried and tried and it just strips out whatever I renamed and reverts back to what it wants.
This was very frustrating. In the meantime, I did my fan-mix post, which meant I had to look up lyrics and selections in along with quotes from the story. IT TOOK FOREVER.
Oh, and my word program, Open Office writer crashed, delaying me on that end.
And AO3, after I filled out the blanks, etc, and copy and posted chapter one, crashed while I was saving it. I haven't tried it again, yet but I suppose I will after I post this.
Well, the story is posted now, the links all work, I think, it looks nice with the art work Luna did, although there's still that problem with the big banner.
I guess I'll give posting at ASR3 and AO3 another shot.
I feel nicely warmed up by the brandy, at least.
Laurie