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Putting Stories In A One File?

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Karen:
I'm a member of a Supernatural fanfic community on livejournal where the authors post their stories in pdf, doc and other formats for people with ebooks. I was wondering if anybody had thought about doing that or would consider it. I think I'd be more inclined to read more fanfic if more authors did that. I was hearing a lot of rokofages75's Broken story then I saw how many chapters and that'd be a lot of time at my computer (not that I'm not at it enough already). I just think laying in bed at night reading fanfic wouldn't be so bad. If my rambling doesn't make sense, please feel free to kick my shin.

Oh and no I'm not posting this asking Julie to post her story in pdf, it was just an example :)

RokofAges75:
I actually do all of my stories in one big Word file.  I have them as separate chapters for the sake of posting them on my website, but except for my collaborations, when I write, I write straight in the big story and copy/paste from there onto AC.  So, Karen, if you would like Broken or anything else, I can send you the big Word doc - just say the word! :)

For me, it wouldn't make much difference either way cause I just read online and don't print stories (and I don't have a Kindle or anything like that), but back in the days of dial-up, it would have made my life SO much easier if people had put up big files with their whole story.  I used to have to copy/paste them chapter by chapter into Word so that I could save them and read them offline cause my mom would always bitch at me for tying up the phone line for too long when I was online.

RokofAges75:
I just double checked, cause after I got done replying, it occurred to me that I thought I'd seen an option like this on the site before... If you do want to save a whole story from AC without copying/pasting chapter by chapter or getting the file from the author, there is a print option - click the printer icon next to the reviews on the table of contents of the story.  It will open up a new tab and a box to print... just wait, and all of the chapters will load in the new page.  You can just copy/paste from there without having to print.

I'll still send my Word doc if you or anyone wants it, though; AC may not load 150 chapters as quickly as it did the 11 chapters of the one I just tried it for LOL.

mare:
I do the dsame thing as Julie. I always write my stories as a word document and then cpoy and paste one chapter at a time on here. There is a printable option for the stories for people who don't want to sit at the computer and read.

While I was sending this Julie just said the same thing lol

Rose:
LOL see I just have them as separate files, I don't save them as one big one. Which I probably should, but eh. I'm lazy

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