December 21st will be a solstice free-for-all day

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Hey, friends. :) Just a quick reminder that next Monday, December 21st (your local time zone) is going to be a free-for-all day here on seasonal_spuffy. That means anyone is cordially invited to share new Spuffy work right here and/or on the Dreamwidth side of the community, no sign-up necessary

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A question

[fra_apples]

Hi there! So I'm posting something for today's free-for-all, and I was wondering, how long should I wait before posting it somewhere else (i.e., on AO3 and Elysian Fields)? 24 hours, or more?
Thanks in advance :)

RE: A question

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Ooh, looking forward to reading it! :)

Waiting till the next day is appreciated. It's not an ironclad rule either way, so it's up to you at which point you decide a day has passed. Thank you for asking!

RE: A question

[fra_apples]

Aw, thanks!

Another question: LJ is being a jerk and keeps saying the post is too large, but how much do I need to cut? How many words does it allow? Would a banner add to that size? (I've tried eliminating it but it still won't post)
This story is around 10k words, should I split it into two even halves?

RE: A question

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Okay, the character limit for LJ posts is approximately 65,000 characters. Formatting adds to it, especially if LJ is trying to keep the formatting that the text originally had before you copied it. A banner would add to the length a little, but not more than a line or two of text if I understand correctly.

If you look at your post in the HTML editor and it is *not* full of "span" tags everywhere, then I think you'll need to split the story in two, yeah. :/

But if you do happen to have span tags everywhere, you could try pasting the text without formatting (either paste it into the HTML editor instead of the rich text editor, or paste into something like Notepad first and then copy from there) and then manually adding back what formatting you really need. However, your word count does seem to be kind of close to the limit, so I can't guarantee that this would work, and it might be simpler to split the post, sorry.