WIP Challenge: Day 22 Check-In

[katzenjamming]

Hey y'all! It's Thursday and half the week's already gone... has it been going well for you? (But I'm feeling better today -- thanks for the wishes!)

So, what'd you do today?

• Wrote?
• Planned?
• Edited?
• Researched?
• Sent to beta?
• Posted?
• Took a break?
• ...did something else? (Tell us in the comments!)

Discussion Topic: Is there a certain time of day, practice you have, or other catalyst that sparks inspiration in you (fannish or otherwise)? What is it? Is it something you can count on for giving you ideas, or is it touch-and-go?

Comments

[lacygrey]

Ive been practicing making exports from ywriter to livejournal so I don't get caught short for the big bang submission in a week and Ive been editing, making a net total of 250, although there's been a lot of in and out. I'm starting to see that long fics involve more editing work per word than short ones, because of their complexity. An exponential relationship!

[katzenjamming]

Converting between formats is personally a pain for me! @_@ I've never used ywriter; how is it about exporting for different sites?

Longfic does require a more fine-tuning, doesn't it? But editing is more about getting things right than the word count, so it still sounds like you got a lot done today!

[lacygrey]

I'm stil 'playing' with ywriter. Its fairly pleasing so far and has many features I haven't tried yet, like tools that analyse your working habits and allow you to set goals.

Export can't be done directly as far as I can tell, after all its not blogging software.

Ywriter exports as rtf, txt, latex or html. I exported as html, opened the file in Wordpad so that the tags were apparent and then cut and pasted to the Post window in LJ.

This appears primitive - and I'm sure that someone 'in the know' could do better - but at least it works.

still sounds like you got a lot done today!

Thanks, I might have done. Its hard to keep a handle on stats when you are deep in a fictional world.