PLEH!!!

[roxy]

Can anyone explain to me how to post stuff at SSA so that my stories will look less like a baby chimpanzee posted for me? No matter what I do, it always looks wonky and semi-literate and I swear, I can *not* figure out the ital business there. *pout*

And by the way, happy Saturday.
I'm cleaning house, finally putting away Christmas stuff, and dusting--oy, so much dusting.

I did get to watch Avatar and Zuko is breaking my heart, big stupid monkey. *wipes tear* How could he? I knew it would be that way, but how could he? *sniff*
Back to dusting.

*sings* Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home....

Comments

[kirana]

It's . . . hard? And painful? xx I don't even wanna think about posting So Cold. ;_;

No tabs, otherwise they really screw up the formatting and the paragraph stays all on one line.

No tabs plus numbers, because then it's a list and looks weird.

Italics. The bane of everyone's existence. xx Begin asterix at beginning of sentence, end at first piece of punctuation, start again after (but not right after), and, generally, increase the size of your fic by a few characters and make it look really, really . . . fuzzy before you upload it. Italics begin and end with a letter, not a space. It's like opening and closing tags in HTML. But worse, because the tags at least can differ and, therefore, making it easier to find, but the asterixes are all the same.

Example:
*Begin asterix at beginning of sentence*, *end at first piece of punctuation*, *start again after* (*but not right after*), *and*, *generally*, *increase the size of your fic by a few characters and make it look really*, *really* . . . *fuzzy before you upload it*.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

AAAAAH! I *see*! That's what was making it hard for me--wow! Not enough asterixes! *kisses all over you*

That's a whole lot of work! Omigosh--Mariposa is a sea of italics--I'll be asterixing forever!

So, by increase the size, do you mean like going from 10 to 12 pnt?

[kirana]

No, it will increases the size of the file by increasing the sheer number of characters. ^^ I'm not sure, but I think each character is a byte? It's been a while since I was last in any computer-type courses. xx And don't forget that apostrophes are punctuation, too. xx

It's really, really painful. ;_;

*is kissed* Yay, kisses! ^^

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, again--I see! And of course I forgot about apostrophes! Thanks!
*sigh*
it is! \*whines*
Hugs!

[danceswithgary]

I compose in Word because I need the spellchecker and thesaurus and always just use the asterisks, never try to use html in my journal because I know it's going to end up on SSA. The most important change for me was turning off smart quotes and accents in Word. I always wondered why I would cut/paste a story from SSA into Notepad to save and it would be really weird as a .txt file until I figured out what was happening.