Updating and archiving...
Dec. 26th, 2006 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2So I was thinking, with SH's new system, I might as well upload a bunch of stuff there, right? They're already hosting tLS and a couple other stories, and I seem to have a few readers.
(For those of you who aren't familiar with Sycophant Hex, they're an archive with standards about punctuation and canon adherence. They will reject stories with a certain number of errors. If you have under that number of errors, but you still have errors, they mark it as a fic With Issues and you need to correct them.)
So I uploaded A Bitter and Deathless Hatred (and yes, I did fix the spelling error for "exhilirated"), and it came up With Issues. Firstly, I had no idea that the disclaimers were to go in the author's notes, which means I will have to go back and fix all of the chapters for tLS. That's not a problem at all, and I feel totally embarrassed that I never noticed that before, or perhaps it's something new.
The other issues involve commas, which is the Bone of Contention among many who have issues with SH. There is a comma which, according to normal standards, needs to be changed to a semi-colon. Unfortunately, it changes the rhythm of the line, which bothers me. It isn't a big deal, and I would change it if necessary (it's not like I'm Emily Dickinson, c'mon).
However, I have now realized that it was complete idiocy to submit A Line in the Dirt/A Free Man to them. It's still waiting in the queue, but by the time they get done with it, it'll be covered with red ink, because it's much closer to poetry than prose, and the commas are going to be stabbing them with glee because they are all placed intuitively, and not by standard punctuation rules, and I feel sorry that I even tried. I feel especially sorry for the person who has to look at it, because she'll probably weep.
I should have just stuck with the fanfic I wrote in the JKR style, and poetry, which seems to escape these quandries. heh.
(For those of you who aren't familiar with Sycophant Hex, they're an archive with standards about punctuation and canon adherence. They will reject stories with a certain number of errors. If you have under that number of errors, but you still have errors, they mark it as a fic With Issues and you need to correct them.)
So I uploaded A Bitter and Deathless Hatred (and yes, I did fix the spelling error for "exhilirated"), and it came up With Issues. Firstly, I had no idea that the disclaimers were to go in the author's notes, which means I will have to go back and fix all of the chapters for tLS. That's not a problem at all, and I feel totally embarrassed that I never noticed that before, or perhaps it's something new.
The other issues involve commas, which is the Bone of Contention among many who have issues with SH. There is a comma which, according to normal standards, needs to be changed to a semi-colon. Unfortunately, it changes the rhythm of the line, which bothers me. It isn't a big deal, and I would change it if necessary (it's not like I'm Emily Dickinson, c'mon).
However, I have now realized that it was complete idiocy to submit A Line in the Dirt/A Free Man to them. It's still waiting in the queue, but by the time they get done with it, it'll be covered with red ink, because it's much closer to poetry than prose, and the commas are going to be stabbing them with glee because they are all placed intuitively, and not by standard punctuation rules, and I feel sorry that I even tried. I feel especially sorry for the person who has to look at it, because she'll probably weep.
I should have just stuck with the fanfic I wrote in the JKR style, and poetry, which seems to escape these quandries. heh.
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Date: 2006-12-26 05:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-12-26 05:29 pm (UTC)ROFLMAO!
Are there fics without issues?
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Date: 2006-12-26 06:12 pm (UTC)There might be, somewhere. Mine wouldn't be included.
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Date: 2006-12-26 06:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-26 06:18 pm (UTC)Thanks for the heads up!
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Date: 2006-12-26 10:03 pm (UTC)I'm way behind uploading my own stuff. I tried Fiction Alley, but due to problems with the site, I think they simply lost the story, because the link doesn't work. I wrote them two emails, but got no response. Now I'm not sure if I should simply try to upload it again.
The main problem is that I'd rather write a new fic than spend the time on uploading one that is already done.
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Date: 2006-12-26 10:14 pm (UTC)Though I must say, I really like the new system at Fic Alley. It's much easier, and it was one of the quicker archives to re-upload the fic to.
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Date: 2006-12-27 09:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-28 02:16 am (UTC)