Writing, Proofreading and Posting

[teleen_fiction]

This post is going to be very boring, but for no reason that I can fathom my brain is making me write it before it will let me continue writing Chapter 67, which I have been doing, slowly but surely.

For those of you who are interested (i.e. none of you) the process that a chapter of The Perfect Storm goes through before you all see it is fairly elaborate. 

First, I write it.  Then I look it over, usually more than once.  Then I send it to be beta'd by my beta goddess whom I worship, wait for it to come back, correct what was wrong and let it sit for a while.  I come back to it sometime before it's due to be posted.  I was pretty far ahead on chapters for a while, but lately, not so much.  

Tonight I proofed the three chapters that will go up on Wednesday.  Sometime before Wednesday, I'll do a 'save as [file name] Teaspoon' and go through each of them putting in paragraph breaks and HTML for the italics, etc. so that they'll be ready for Teaspoon and the Angst Archive.  While I'm doing this, I nearly always find more typos or corrections that I want to make, which I'll have to correct in both the original file and the Teaspoon file.  Again, sometime before Wednesday, I'll go through each Teaspoon chapter again and add in any HTML or paragraph breaks that I've missed. 

Then I'll upload them to LJ, usually still before Wednesday, though last week I did it right before I cross-posted, an experience that I can definitely live without because I'll always mess up a link (or two) when I don't do it in stages.  If I'm doing it ahead of time, I'll set the links to 'my eyes only'.  This is why those of you who have "The Perfect Storm" tag set to notify you don't get a notification every time.  Sorry about that, BTW, as I plan to tag this "The Perfect Storm", since I'm writing about what I have to go through to get it up for y'all each week, heh.  

Sometimes while I'm uploading chapters to LJ, I'll find more typos and have to go back and correct them...  in three different places. 

Wednesday arrives and it's time to upload everywhere.  I'll usually do Teaspoon and the Angst Archive a few hours earlier, both for validation and again, when I split this up into stages it's easier on my poor brain. 

Then it's time to cross-post.  I open each chapter and unlock it, then copy the links.  I have a pre-made template because I'm just a dork like that and I have cross-posting down to a flippin' science.  I can cross-post to a dozen different LJ communities in about forty minutes from the time I unlock the chapters to the time I post to trauma_rec_fic.

By the time that it's visible in every place that I post, every chapter has been read a minimum of half a dozen times and there are five different files that have to be corrected for every one typo that is found.  Which is why I firmly believe that there are gremlins who are attempting to drive me insane every time y'all find one.

It's also why I'm so very grateful when they're found.  No seriously, I am.  Those gremlins need every eye out there to keep them from overrunning us all!  

Yes, I am very strange IRL - why do you ask?

I will continue to reward those who find multiple typos with drabbles, so keep your eyes peeled, :)! 

Thanks, ;).

Comments

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

There are a minimum of two of me, heh...

Just remember, you can talk to yourself and answer yourself, but if you find yourself saying, 'Huh?' then there's probably a problem... ;)

[azure-chaos.livejournal.com]

*giggles madly* Oh dear... ;)

Nate

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

The first time I heard that, I was giggling for *days*...

[azure-chaos.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a good one ;)

Nate

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

:)