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Fic Talk => General Discussion => Topic started by: honey on October 15, 2007, 04:50:35 PM
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I clicked on Welcome To My Heart for some odd reason last week that I can't remember now, and noticed that somehow all my chapters are lumped together in big long paragraphs. I almost had a heart attack and it bugged me all week knowing that I had a story posted in such a condition. I don't know how it happened either, because the origional story isn't like that. Anyhoo, it was driving me crazy so I have been reading it again as I seperate the paragraphs (which sucks cause there's like a hundred chapters) and I really just want to kick myself.
Seriously, even though I always think I'm editing my work, the typos are crazy and the writing makes me cringe and I just want to rewrite everything that I read. (But of course I'm way to lazy to actually do that.) But now I can't help but wonder if all of my stuff is like that and it just hasn't been long enough since I put it down to see the difference. Does anyone else ever feel like that?
oh, and PS... If you've read Welcome To My Heart, I apologize. I swear I know how to seperate paragraphs!!!
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I think it's that way when you look back on all your older writing. If you're cringing, it means you're improving, and that's a good thing. :)
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We are our own worst critics and I am convinced that AC had a gnome that likes to play with our stories from time to time. I call him Norbert.
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well then I'm definitely laming Norbert for the lack of paragraphs. I'm on like Chapter 30 now... only 65 to go before I don't look like some teenybopper moron!
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lmao lame norbert all you want! hehe
I wonder why that happened? weirdness
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yeah, me too. Its really annoying too. At first I was just going to leave it, but I seriously thought about it all week. I mean, I won't read a story if it looks like that. So yeah, I had to go back and fix it.
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You know this isn't funny but it is kind of. Because you complain all the time about the paragraph thing and I can see a newbie after reading your rants on that, go to click on your story and there you have everything in one big paragraph lmao
*ducks*
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tell me about it!!! You should have seen my mouth drop when I saw it! I was like, "This can't be MY story!!!"
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LOL I bet. I'm almost afriad to click on some of mine now. In fact i'm not going to at all.
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yeah, it's better being in the dark. Otherwise you might feel obligated to fix it and then its really hard not to want to rewrite it. And since I'm not going to do that I will just go nuts thinking about how badly that story needs to be re-written.
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aww
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You know this isn't funny but it is kind of. Because you complain all the time about the paragraph thing and I can see a newbie after reading your rants on that, go to click on your story and there you have everything in one big paragraph lmao
*ducks*
that's at least better than being called a hypocrite for someone else's rants. lol That was really cool. At least this time I deserve it.
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Well, sometimes it's better to let sleeping fan fics lie. :D
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that's at least better than being called a hypocrite for someone else's rants. lol That was really cool. At least this time I deserve it.
lmao ahh the memories.
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LMAO!
Mare, are we having a Lifetime Channel moment?
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*looks for Meredith Baxter Birney*
Perhaps? lol
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I have a feeling Mare is one walking lifetime moment. lol
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lmao *looks pensive and said as she sees herself on a milk carton*
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Lifetime moment? I'm so lost.
I guess this would be another reason for Julie to point out that I'm canadian, thus would not be in the loop on this subject! lol No shirt key on my keyboard, no Lifetime channel, I don't know how I live with myself! Anyone want to marry me so I can get me a green card? :P
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blame the mooses lmao
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WHAT?!?!?!?! No LIFETIME????? However do you survive???? You poor dear. Canada's not all bad though, despite the absence of Liftime Original Movies and the shirt key :D I got love for Toronto. Used to go there often when I lived in Detroit.
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WHAT?!?!?!?! No LIFETIME????? However do you survive???? You poor dear. Canada's not all bad though, despite the absence of Liftime Original Movies and the shirt key :D I got love for Toronto. Used to go there often when I lived in Detroit.
Oh you mean the centre of the universe? That Toronto? lol My family is actually from Windsor so we used to go to Detroit alll the time, my aunts and uncles live in Eastpointe.
I live in the boondocks, I'm sure Toronto has some sort of Lifetime channel equivalent lol
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haha who just goes to Detriot all the time? I lived there and I never went there. (Yeah, I'm a product of suburbia.)
But I like Canada because that's how I discovered the Backstreet Boys. I was walking in a mall somewhere with my friend and they were playing their CD in some music store. I smuggled the album back across the border and felt really cool because I liked this band that no one in the states had ever heard of.
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haha who just goes to Detriot all the time? I lived there and I never went there. (Yeah, I'm a product of suburbia.)
But I like Canada because that's how I discovered the Backstreet Boys. I was walking in a mall somewhere with my friend and they were playing their CD in some music store. I smuggled the album back across the border and felt really cool because I liked this band that no one in the states had ever heard of.
There's no other reason to go to Detroit except to go shopping lol
You had to smuggle the CD? Were they doing border checks for illegal pop music? lol Way back in 1996 when BSB first got big I was living in Germany, so eeeeveryone loved them.
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yeah, us in the states were a little slow jumping on the band wagon. *sigh* But al least we caught on eventually.
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Sort of; but the best of us are still here. :D
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I do like your national anthem lol
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I've had that happen to some of my fics too! And the song lyrics are lumped together & not where they're supposed to be. But I know they were just fine when I first psoted them. I, too, blame Norbert. How DARE he! Lol.
And if you see any clumped together, well, I prolly over-looked that story, since I've got so many on here - lol. And they just keep on coming!
~Lenni~
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k i'm completely lost what the eff is a shirt key?
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k i'm completely lost what the eff is a shirt key?
lmao. where did that even start? I think somewhere in the popularity thread. Something about a club for an anti oreo's story ... guess you had to be there...
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k i'm completely lost what the eff is a shirt key?
It's the shift key... only way cooler
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It's the shift key... only way cooler
*bows for starting the phenomenon that is the shirt key*
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k i'm completely lost what the eff is a shirt key?
Dee was talking about the shift key but made a typo and we are all smartasses so the rest is history lol
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Dee was talking about the shift key but made a typo and we are all smartasses so the rest is history lol
Yeah you are all smartasses. :D
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Lifetime moment? I'm so lost.
I guess this would be another reason for Julie to point out that I'm canadian, thus would not be in the loop on this subject! lol No shirt key on my keyboard, no Lifetime channel, I don't know how I live with myself! Anyone want to marry me so I can get me a green card? :P
Believe me you aren't missing anything! I always say in my version of hell, in between Justin squealing his annoying songs in the background the only thing that hell will have on TV is the Lifetime Channel and possibly MTV lol
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Believe me you aren't missing anything! I always say in my version of hell, in between Justin squealing his annoying songs in the background the only thing that hell will have on TV is the Lifetime Channel and possibly MTV lol
I agree, it's really nothing to be ashamed of for missing. :D
By the way, Mare, is that some unmentioned level of hell Dante never got to? :D
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^ yup lol
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Ever thought about publishing a book entitled "Mare's Inferno"? :D
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that is an idea lol i'll keep it in mind.
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Or even better, "Nick's Inferno." :D
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LOL OOh ok lol i was like "shirt key whaaat?" LOL but that makes sense i misspell it all the time
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Welcome To My Heart officially has paragraphs!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!! Let's all have a party!!!!!
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Welcome To My Heart officially has paragraphs!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!! Let's all have a party!!!!!
Damn you for making me think of that lets have a party song!! lol Worst bsb song ever and now it's in my head! :P
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I have to disagree... If You Want It To Be Good Girl...
great now I'm singing that one.