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2009-01-06, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2006
- Location
- Unfriend Zone
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
My method for writing fics:
- Boil some water.
- Get my well-worn notebook and a #2 pencil.
- Drop 15 live crickets in boiling water.
- Smile sadistically.
- Dip fingers, ever so slowly, into the boiling water.
- Scald myself terribly.
- Take a trip to the emergency room, where I'm treated for second-degree burns.
- Return home.
- Turn off the burner.
- If there's any water left in the pot, wait for the boiled cricket soup to cool sufficiently and then eat it with some blueberry-pomegranate juice.
- If there isn't any water left in the pot, scrape the charred remains out of the bottom, mix with mayonnaise, and eat it spread on white toast.
- Change bandages on burned hand.
- Sit down on the sofa and write fic.
- Use the restroom.
- Type up fic in Microsoft Word (the top-rated word processor program for serial killers).
- Bring up GitP shipping thread and hit 'Reply.'
- Copy+Paste fic.
- Hit the 'preview post' button.
- Watch this video five or six times while I wait for the server to process my request.
- Make necessary formatting changes to fic (such as text color changes for dialogue), correct typos, etc.
- Repeat steps 18-20 until satisfied the fic is 'perfect.'
- Change bandages on burned hand again.
- Post the fic.
- Re-read the fic again.
- Angrily click the edit button.
- Check this website while I wait for the server to process my request.
- Repeat step 20.
- Re-submit the fic.
- Repeat step 24.
- Whether or not there's any more changes that should be made, I throw my hands into the air and go do something else for a while.
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2009-01-06, 12:18 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2007
- Location
- avatar by Ashen Lilies
- Gender
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
Okay, am I the only one nerdy enough to type it all our in notepad because Word is too feature bloated? Although I write it out longhand first, not because I prefer longhand, but because if I'm at a computer, I end up playing online instead of writing.
Also, I have two more instalments of Ship Wars written and ready to type in, but will wait for the shiney new thread to post it.Last edited by happyturtle; 2009-01-06 at 12:20 PM.
My avatar! Isn't it just utterly diabolical? Ashen Lilies made it!
"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."
― Dorothy Parker
Spoiler: Interested in Nexus FFRP? Newcomers welcome!
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2009-01-06, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Oct 2007
- Location
- Chicagoland
- Gender
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
Dark Moon Rising I typed in Word and formatted when I pasted it into my blog and here.
The Shadow-fics I actually typed in Word with the formatting tags for the board. If you just leave out the quotation marks it still actually works.
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2009-01-06, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Apr 2007
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
I use Open Office(OGL FTW!) and type everything in there. From my narrations for WW games, to the ships. I actually write it down with tags, like Cristo said.
Adrie, half elven bard. Drawing by Vulion, avatar by CheesePirate. Colored version by Callos_DeTerran. Thanks a lot, you guys.This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here."There will come a day so dark you will pray for death. On that day your prayers will be answered."Book of shadows, book of night, wake the beast and banish light.
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2009-01-06, 12:40 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- May 2007
- Location
- The Southern Wildlands
- Gender
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
I use Word. Mainly to avoid mispelling wrods.
See what I did there?
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2009-01-06, 01:05 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Nov 2008
- Location
- Millenium City
- Gender
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
I use wordpad myself (Stupid Office programs that came with my laptop were trials that PC World didn't tell me about)
This avatar pierces the heavens and is by Miss Nobody!SpoilerOriginally Posted by Anuan
"Whether it be impossible or laughable, Great men open up paths of battle! If there's a wall, we break it down! If there's no path, we'll make one with these hands! The heart's magma burns with flames!"
By Recaiden.
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2009-01-06, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Dec 2006
- Location
- In the shadows
- Gender
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2009-01-06, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Apr 2007
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
Like I said, use Open Office. It's free and just as good.
Adrie, half elven bard. Drawing by Vulion, avatar by CheesePirate. Colored version by Callos_DeTerran. Thanks a lot, you guys.This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here."There will come a day so dark you will pray for death. On that day your prayers will be answered."Book of shadows, book of night, wake the beast and banish light.
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2009-01-06, 01:57 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Oct 2008
- Location
- Limbo
- Gender
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
I dunno if I should be in love with GW or terrified of him.
Originally Posted by RabbitHoleLost
OMG I GOT IT!
Shipping V: The Squick and the DeadLast edited by Dirk Kris; 2009-01-06 at 02:11 PM.
Dirky by Beans!Officially putting in for an extended leave of absence.
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2009-01-06, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2008
- Location
- Norman, OK
- Gender
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2009-01-06, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- May 2008
- Location
- In hiding. Always hiding.
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
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2009-01-06, 02:21 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Aug 2006
- Location
- sector ZZ9 plural-z alpha
- Gender
Re: Shippingitp IV: Flattery Will Get You EVERYWHERE
Ok, Dirk's title wins everything. Just let me go change that.
And in case no one had noticed, New Thread is up!I used to do LP's. Currently archived here:
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The rest of my Sig:
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My Games:
The Great Divide Dark Heresy - Finished
They All Uprose Dark Heresy - Finished
Dead in the Water Dark Heresy - Finished
House of Glass Dark Heresy - Deceased
We All Fall Down Dark Heresy - Finished
Sea of Stars Rogue Trader - Ongoing