"Breaking Glass" gets some love

[antennapedia]

I'm tickled pink to report that "Breaking Glass", a story about Giles and Ethan on holiday, about magic, and about portals, got some lovely attention from the Fang Fetish Awards round 9. The notes from the judges made me particularly happy.

And I note that flistians sahiya, ubiquirk, firefly_124, and mireille719 also got some well-deserved kudos. The fandom was ready for stories

Comments

[firefly124]

Congratulations!

And squee! *runs over to look*

[antennapedia]

Thanks! And grats to you, too!

[beatrice_otter]

For the love of all that's holy, if you have PDFs of the files, let that not be the only version. I loathe them, for the simple reason that I can't adjust them to fit. I can't change the margins, the fonts, the sizing, anything, and that really, really bugs me. .rtf files work great for me. Easily customizable.

[antennapedia]

I also loathe PDF files, for all the reasons you mention. They're great for giving you printable copies of forms you need to fill out, or anything where controlling the presentation exactly is a win, but... I don't like reading things in PDF. Other people might, though. Doesn't the Kindle display them nicely? I can't remember what format that uses.

[beatrice_otter]

I don't know; might check into that. As long as you have another version available, that's all I care about.

[antennapedia]

I solemnly swear that I will always provide something other than PDF, if only so I can read it :)

[meaghann]

I'm a big fan of Scrivener. It's been a great product so far. Sometimes, if I'm wanting to just write unimpeded by the interface, I start in Writeroom at http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom. It's a great full screen text editor.

[antennapedia]

Hmm! Giving WriteRoom a try... Distractions are a problem for me, to put it mildly. I have taken to going to cafes with wireless turned off to get myself to stop fidgeting.

[daiseechain]

I already love Scrivener, and my love is true.

Except for when I can't find functions I really want because I've forgotten where they live in them menus and such.

I haven't printed any of your fic, yet, but when I do print fic it's usually for the purposes of having an actual dead tree version, for those moments when the computer is inaccesible, or sometimes late at night when I want to read but the screen is giving me a headache.

Inacessible refuses to be spelled correctly, no matter how I try. Sorry for that. Is too late. Am too tired.

[antennapedia]

I'm finding it to be pretty awesome at helping me make sense of my outline and arrange scattered chunks of text into something I might someday melt into a coherent whole. But I'm having a hard time adjusting to not having the editor work exactly like BBEdit. I am so hidebound.

Noted on the printable versions: you print them!

[theoreme]

Congratulations!

I'm currently trying Liquid Story Binder, which is kind of okay, but I think I will come back to Mindmanager for brainstorming and my good old pen & paper for writing. Nothing beats my old-fashioned and cherished silvery fountain pen.

And please, no PDFs. They make me run away from stories

[antennapedia]

PDFs get no love and much hate, so I have officially decided not to bother with them!

I keep coming back to a plain text editor, perhaps one that can take over the whole screen. What I also really need is to turn off the Internet while I write.