Arrggggh...formatting! Whyyyyy?? D=
You know the feeling you get when you spent hours checking a paper so that it matches all the required formatting, with margins, text size, headings, footers, page numbers ad nauseum, and you get it back, and you *still* get docked points for the one that you somehow missed?
Well, it's pretty much exactly like that with this whole free proof copy that you get if you confirm with 50,000 words at Nanowrimo -- they're actually really strict on formatting, and I was a little inconsistent with it between the cover and the title page (so, to use my alias as a proxy, on the cover it'd be "T. Ichijouji" and inside the book it says "Tomoyo Ichijouji" -- that apparently isn't acceptable =x ), and that made me need to resubmit it.
What makes this frustrating is that the deadline for using the coupon code for it is June 30 -- yeah that's right, tomorrow, or by now today technically. X_X It says "through June 30", so I still have a day, I suppose -- but, they took 24 hrs, or...*counts* well, 18 hrs for the first round. If they take that amount of time...well, it'll be back by the evening then, but I'll be over at LA for Anime Expo by then. Though I do have a smartphone now, so I could access my account with that...but will it still make it in time? *sigh*
I know it could have been avoided supposedly if I did this earlier, but I just had way too much going on in my life the past several months and so "oh, a few months would be more than enough time to finish this Nano story up!" became this situation. 9_9 I'm not gonna blame myself for that though. Because...honestly? I have a legitimate excuse. Really I do. =( Sometimes things just don't work out like you planned. Things work out anyway still, in one way or another.
So eh, oh well. I'm glad I got almost all the stuff I wanted to get done for AX. =3 Now, I need to SLEEP. D< *shoves self to bed*
Well, it's pretty much exactly like that with this whole free proof copy that you get if you confirm with 50,000 words at Nanowrimo -- they're actually really strict on formatting, and I was a little inconsistent with it between the cover and the title page (so, to use my alias as a proxy, on the cover it'd be "T. Ichijouji" and inside the book it says "Tomoyo Ichijouji" -- that apparently isn't acceptable =x ), and that made me need to resubmit it.
What makes this frustrating is that the deadline for using the coupon code for it is June 30 -- yeah that's right, tomorrow, or by now today technically. X_X It says "through June 30", so I still have a day, I suppose -- but, they took 24 hrs, or...*counts* well, 18 hrs for the first round. If they take that amount of time...well, it'll be back by the evening then, but I'll be over at LA for Anime Expo by then. Though I do have a smartphone now, so I could access my account with that...but will it still make it in time? *sigh*
I know it could have been avoided supposedly if I did this earlier, but I just had way too much going on in my life the past several months and so "oh, a few months would be more than enough time to finish this Nano story up!" became this situation. 9_9 I'm not gonna blame myself for that though. Because...honestly? I have a legitimate excuse. Really I do. =( Sometimes things just don't work out like you planned. Things work out anyway still, in one way or another.
So eh, oh well. I'm glad I got almost all the stuff I wanted to get done for AX. =3 Now, I need to SLEEP. D< *shoves self to bed*