This is your Four Hour Warning.

[hhertzof]

Your fic must be uploaded, over 1000 words, out of draft and properly assigned to your recipient and to the Yuletide 2013 collection to count

Comments

[waltzmatildah]

Quick, only semi-related, question. When is the deadline for posting treats?

Thank you.

[hhertzof]

We haven't set that yet. But it will probably be a few hours before the archive opens.

[waltzmatildah]

Got it, thank you.

[mammothluv]

Ahaha. I SEE YOU FURIOUSLY WRITING TREATS. You can do it!!!

[scribble_myname]

Old batches of pinch hits are still due tormorrow, right?

[hhertzof]

Correct.

[kaydeefalls]

If we want to make any minor edits to the fic after posting, will we be able to do so before the collection opens? (I know we could last year, but I figured I'd better check.)

[crescent_gaia]

I believe the answer is that we can edit the fic at any time after posting it. Just be careful not to remove collection tags so that it won't be revealed.

[hhertzof]

Yes.

[afleur_de_lis]

What if I published on the 23 my time, but before the deadline on your part? Would it be defaulted... *is concerned*

[hhertzof]

Deadlines are all EST, but you're welcome to email the mods and ask for an extension. We consider those on a case by case basis.

[afleur_de_lis]

I think it posted without any issue though. It didn't tell me that it was too late, but I'll send that message just in case... though I have gone to the story to double and triple check and it is posted there. It just says that the date is the 23, I posted the story an hour before it would have closed on your end though.

[hhertzof]

It should be fine then. you can edit as needed up until the collection opens.

[pesha]

I am having excruciatingly frustrating formatting issues with AO3. It keeps eating half my story because it doesn't use the coding that I want to do in the piece. I am stripping the coding OUT to prevent this from being an issue, but it will look unusual for a while and I would like to be able to fix it before the reveal so that my recipient gets a story that looks like I coded it instead of just pasted with no line breaks from Notepad. I'll still be able to edit for my formatting, right? Also: do you happen to know how to make a BLOCKQUOTE box on AO3? Or is this impossible and I should give up?

[silverr]

2. For fancy formatting - html tags outside the bold ital, etc - I'd paste raw HTML directly into the HTML mode box, then PREVIEW. (I have at times seen oddities when I post without preview).

[pesha]

I've been trying with/without preview. I think it's just not something that AO3 supports. I wanted to create an illusory header for each subset in my piece with a quote and a hyperlink to the section of the footer notes where I credited the source for the quote. I don't think the piece really needs it though so I'm eliminating it in favor of just trying to make the thing look readable, period.

[silverr]

ah, so something like the way wikipedia does the auto-footnotes/references?

yeah, honestly, if what you want to do isn't supported, and isn't essential, don't drive yourself up the wall. ~ Listing the source of the quotes at the end of the document is the most important thing: it's admirable to want to make it super-easy for readers, but they'll survive without it.