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[risti]

So now, the quickest fic I've ever written is actually done. I mean, I'm sending it off to a few people who haven't been involved in the beta-ing for a final look over, but otherwise it is essentially complete. While editing, it ballooned out from 11 000 words to 16 000, as I ended up expanding/adding scenes

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[persephone_kore]

Hmm... that's funny. I always sent my stuff to HP archives in HTML and never got around to submitting much to the one that wanted Word documents, because I'd drifted away from composing in Word a while back.

For LJ, I just put in italic and bold tags as appropriate. (If you didn't compose with the tags in, this is sometimes a good way to decide whether you have used too many italics -- leave out the ones that don't feel essential enough to bother typing in. ;) But this may not be one of your problems. I overdo it sometimes.) I put in paragraph tags and the html head /head body /body /html stuff for other locations -- I suppose I could click "Disable auto-format" in LJ and have fewer versions to deal with, but then, I want to add LJ-cuts and links anyway....

[risti]

*looks up from manually adding in italics tags*

I've been playing around with C&P into LJ the last couple of weeks, since I've been using a Beta Post for people to read the fic... I'm annoyed with it...

Yeah, if I'd been formatting as I wrote, I wouldn't be in this situation, but that's never been how I've written fic... Old habits and all...

*sigh*

[persephone_kore]

Well... I started out writing fics in Word, but I switched out because I was posting to a mailing list that couldn't handle Word-formatting or special characters, plus the archives in that particular fandom were all hand-run by individuals, at least the ones I was familiar with. I started HTMLing my own fics because it made the archivists happy, I think.

[persephone_kore]

...What does the Rich Text Editor DO? I actually would have expected it to behave pretty well.