ext_6741 ([identity profile] persephone-kore.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] persephone_kore 2005-12-07 03:34 am (UTC)

When what I was imagining was all just for me, I didn't ever really bother to type it up, mostly. When I started writing fanfic, it was for X-Men comic books, and the main way to post (that I knew about) was to send it to a mailing list. This produced several habits that still hang on even though they may not even apply for the mailing list anymore, such as composing in plain text, considering the ideal chapter to be under 30Kb as a text file, and considering it normal to distinguish telepathy from normal thought from normal speech by different delimiters, which I know peeves some people... though getting into half a dozen variations for different TYPES of telepathy or different languages is still annoying!

Anyway, the composing in plain text is the relevant part here. In that section of fandom, you didn't generally submit to archives; archivists generally initiated the process. If you wanted to make it easier for them (or in some cases if you preferred it to having your fic put up as a text file), you might do your own basic HTMLing for them.

It was someone from that first circle of fandom acquaintance who put me on to NoteTab, which really is very nice indeed. It has a "Modify document to HTML" feature that puts in the basic required code and inserts paragraph tags, which was always the really tedious part before; you do however have to do your own italics or bold if you want that. And that would definitely be daunting for a 150K+-word novel!

I think FA was being slow last time I went and looked there, but I'll have to check out the story pages. That is nice.

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