[ SECRET POST #2937 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2937 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Urg, this.

I usually don't bother with a beta either; I'm reasonably confident in my grammar etc., at least to the point where no-one I could ask would be significantly/usefully better, and I know I'd just get irritated with someone trying to mess with my plot and ideas so I tend to eschew them.

I ended up re-reading a 3 year old fic the other day, and noticed a typo (one of those "on/of/or", "is/it/if" typos that both spellcheck and your brain gloss straight over).

It's be fine if this didn't happen to be one of my most popular and most-read fics, so literally thousands of people over three years have probably seen that error and nobody thought it'd be an idea to let me know.

I'm so embarrassed that I still haven't fixed it.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Aaaaaand in the finest display of irony ever...

"It'd" not "It's"

/cries/

[(Anonymous)]

thousands of people glossed over the typo. hundreds of people saw it.

[(Anonymous)]

The problem with most of the betas I've ever had is that a significant amount of them did correct my grammar and punctuation wrongly.

I try to still get something out of the betas, but it's hard when things like that make me doubt the credibility of the rest of their notes.

Nowadays I flick through any potential beta's fics before accepting to check they know how to use punctuation themselves. I have this problem far less these days. I should have done that to start with but I was just so glad to get any beta at all.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, my LJ readers are really quick to point out my typos (I have like two or three regular readers who are hardcore grammarians) but on AO3, sometimes HTML borks go unnoticed for YEARS.

It really doesn't help that I have to manually do all the HTML formatting myself for all my writing. (Word 97. Sigh.)

[(Anonymous)]

Word for me insists on putting the wrong version of apostrophes into HTML and breaking all my links and cuts. Not sure how to change that, so I have to add the apostrophes in DW/LJ/AO3 when posting, then copy paste them back to Word. Tedious and easy to forget.

I prefer to manually do the HTML formatting anyway. Rich text option in LJ is very cranky and usually not worth the trouble.

[lb_lee]

OH GOD I FUCKING HATE THAT.

Yeah, what I generally do is, I work in Word97, formatting as I prefer. I then search/replace all the indents to make line breaks, then copy-paste the whole thing into the LJ HTML thing. I then use 'Find' to manually put in all the formatting. (Italics, mostly. Centering ellipses tends to cause breakage in crossposting and fuck it.)

Thankfully, popping it in plain text doesn't seem to wreck the apostrophes. And now I have Notepad++ to do all my website HTML coding, so I haven't had that problem so much anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

I HTML as I write these days. I don't use a lot of fancy formatting, mostly just italics and scene breaks, so it's still pretty easy to read and edit my work. Going back to change all the formatting later to HTML sounds like a way to drive me insane.

[lb_lee]

Enh, it's a case of old habits dying hard. I also make print versions of my stories sometimes, so HTMLing as I write would mean the story would print with HTML tags in it.

Sometimes, you just can't win.

[(Anonymous)]

I usually code html in Notepad.

[othellia]

This. Well, actually I use textwranger (windows equivalent would be notepad++). It's literally MADE for html and other programming language coding.

[badass_tiger]

It really doesn't help that I have to manually do all the HTML formatting myself for all my writing. (Word 97. Sigh.)

Have you tried using them convert Word documents to HTML tool thingies? Love these things, I'm always pretty careless about formatting myself but these things just do all the work for me. Only problem I noticed is that it adds those p line break tags which is fine for ao3 but gives me double spaces on LJ/DW, but I can just pop it back into Word, use the 'find and replace' tool to get rid of them all, and they're all ready for LJ/DW posting.

[lb_lee]

Ooh, this does look handy! I might have to check it out!