daily i fall in love with waitresses.
Jan. 18th, 2011 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaIn honor of me finally downloading a half-decent selection of fonts and fixing up my feeble collection of icons, I am using something other than my default! I still wouldn't call them good, and there are a couple that could stand a little more work, but they're certainly better than they were. Also, I need to get off my butt and cap some A:TLA.
Anyway! Finally had my meeting with the headmaster, despite the weather's best efforts to scare me away, and then left a little early so as to miss the worst of the snow/sleet/ice. I'll be working full-time come Monday, but it seems like the busier I am, the more I get done, so that's probably not actually going to be a bad thing when it comes to writing. Chapter 11 is coming along excellently, although, as always, it has sprouted a few extra scenes I wasn't quite expecting when I started it.
Mostly, though, I would like to gripe a little about FF.net. I think the AO3 works so easily for me because I am used to an LJ/DW-like interface - there's title boxes and tag boxes and all that, and then a big box where you paste your story, and you can double-check the code and make your formatting do pretty much whatever, within the limits of your knowledge of HTML.
FF.net is NOTHING LIKE THAT AT ALL. You have to do the vast majority of work in your document beforehand, including headers and notes and stuff like that; FF.net strips scene breaks if they're composed of multiples of the same symbol, so "***" gets removed - but ".*.*.*." will stay; and while you can edit the HTML once you've uploaded your document, the default interface is the rich-text version of your story, which I find odd and thwartful. Plus, if you want to edit after posting, you ... pretty much can't - you have to make your changes in the original document, re-upload, and then replace the posted chapter with your newly uploaded version. :P (To be fair, it's possible that there is some simpler way to handle this that I do not yet know; but if there is, it's pretty damn hard to find.) Obviously, some of this is just me hating change, and nobody's making me use it, so if it keeps irritating me, I will run away, no harm done. But I now appreciate the AO3 SO MUCH MORE. ♥. I will not attempt to assert that it is objectively better; but it's definitely more like what I personally want from an archive.
I missed 5-0 again, because I needed sleep more than I needed a dose of shiny, slightly cheesy fun; but I will catch up as soon as we roll over to a new period of internet usage. I ... may be incapable of keeping to a bandwidth limit. /o\ But tonight I hope to hang on for White Collar - I have no headmastery meetings tomorrow, I can afford to be a little sleep-deprived. :D
Anyway! Finally had my meeting with the headmaster, despite the weather's best efforts to scare me away, and then left a little early so as to miss the worst of the snow/sleet/ice. I'll be working full-time come Monday, but it seems like the busier I am, the more I get done, so that's probably not actually going to be a bad thing when it comes to writing. Chapter 11 is coming along excellently, although, as always, it has sprouted a few extra scenes I wasn't quite expecting when I started it.
Mostly, though, I would like to gripe a little about FF.net. I think the AO3 works so easily for me because I am used to an LJ/DW-like interface - there's title boxes and tag boxes and all that, and then a big box where you paste your story, and you can double-check the code and make your formatting do pretty much whatever, within the limits of your knowledge of HTML.
FF.net is NOTHING LIKE THAT AT ALL. You have to do the vast majority of work in your document beforehand, including headers and notes and stuff like that; FF.net strips scene breaks if they're composed of multiples of the same symbol, so "***" gets removed - but ".*.*.*." will stay; and while you can edit the HTML once you've uploaded your document, the default interface is the rich-text version of your story, which I find odd and thwartful. Plus, if you want to edit after posting, you ... pretty much can't - you have to make your changes in the original document, re-upload, and then replace the posted chapter with your newly uploaded version. :P (To be fair, it's possible that there is some simpler way to handle this that I do not yet know; but if there is, it's pretty damn hard to find.) Obviously, some of this is just me hating change, and nobody's making me use it, so if it keeps irritating me, I will run away, no harm done. But I now appreciate the AO3 SO MUCH MORE. ♥. I will not attempt to assert that it is objectively better; but it's definitely more like what I personally want from an archive.
I missed 5-0 again, because I needed sleep more than I needed a dose of shiny, slightly cheesy fun; but I will catch up as soon as we roll over to a new period of internet usage. I ... may be incapable of keeping to a bandwidth limit. /o\ But tonight I hope to hang on for White Collar - I have no headmastery meetings tomorrow, I can afford to be a little sleep-deprived. :D
