A very Merry Christmas...

[agilebrit]

to those on my flist who celebrate it.

Happy Holidays to those who celebrate something else.

And, um...happy Thursday to those who don't celebrate anything at all?

*smishes you all*

I don't get to open prezzies until Saturday, since the Hubby left for work yesterday and doesn't get back until then. And I think I'm actually using my prezzie right now anyway. So...yeah. Quiet day today, watching the blizzard. Very glad I don't have to go out.

In other news--

Rather than posting the not!kkbb/im story under a heavy filter, having to format it for the web, break it up into several posts, remember the filter, yaddayaddayadda...

I'm thinking about emailing it as a file attachment to interested parties.

Now, I started writing this thing in WordPerfect, and switched to Open Office about 2/3 of the way through. I can save it as an .rtf file if needed, but I don't know how the formatting would come through--I think it would be all right, and it's not like there's any "special" formatting anyway, but I've already got it saved eight ways from Sunday and doing it again just seems like a pain. *eyes all the different docs* 'Bout time I gave this thing its own folder, yes...

Unless anyone has serious objections, I think that's what I'm going to do. So, sing out if you're interested, leave me an email addy (I can screen the post if you like), and tell me if you have Open Office so I know if I should save it as an .rtf or not (which any word processor should be able to open). On another note, if you don't have Open Office, why not, for heaven's sake? It's free, it opens any file format under the sun, and it's free. Did I mention the free part?

So. That's where it sits right now. I'm about midway through my first editing pass, where I'm getting an overall view of how it hangs together, and I have a meeting with my Writing Buddy on Sunday to see what he thinks about it. So it won't go out or up or whatever until probably Monday or Tuesday at the earliest, maybe not until Friday.

Comments

[pensive]

my LJ name at gmail :)

[veldeia.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to catch up on stuff that I missed on lj while I was away from town, so, Merry Christmas, and (somewhat belated) congrats on finishing your story! Yay! :D

All the snippets and the stuff you've been writing about the story while writing it have had me thinking "Wow, this is one story I'd really like to read" - so, I'm most definitely interested. Email address is in my profile, and I'm an OpenOffice-user, too.

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I want to read! Can't promise I'd get back soon at all with any comments, but I do want to read it. I have OpenOffice, although I use Word; I like open-source stuff better, generally, but...OpenOffice can't split panes, which is a feature I use a lot. So.

[bullet4fob.livejournal.com]

my e-mail address is kathleendoris@gmail.com. i would love to read it very much.

[aadler]

I’ve sent you an e-mail with my own addy. Let me know if it didn’t go through.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Got it. :)

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't have Open Office and right now I'm neck deep in the 5K fundraiser I'm doing for church. I'll emerge as a human being again on friday. :) My email is mandy(dot)lancaster(at)gmail(dot)com

I really do look forward to reading this.

[dmdomini.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see it. (Yay for finishing roughs! Woo hoo!) Email is dmgauger (atttt) dmdomini.com, and I'll need the RTF version. (Been using MS Word 2000 since...well, 2000.)

Out of curiosity...what sort of feedback do you specifically want? Do you have some...character, or scene, or concept, or idea that you specifically would love to have feedback on? Maybe something that's sort of been neglected by your other readers? (either because they feel it's already perfect and just don't mention it, but you're not so sure about it, or whatever?)

I ask because I've found that it's very easy to find people who will tackle the nitpicks with typos and grammar and sentence structure when they beta, but I-as-a-writer have a harder time finding folks who will look at the more abstract stuff, and even when I do I still have questions about this or that part of the story that just wasn't addressed by anyone reading it in their feedback to me. I'm guessing I'm probably not the only one with these difficulties. So if you have something more abstract than spelling and grammar and punctuation in the story structure that you think needs a look taken at it, or you want to know if it works or not (in my opinion at least), I'm your girl. :)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

At this point, I don't even know. My grammar and spelling are fine because I'm a little OCD about stuff like that (if there are mistakes, they're generally deliberate because my characters don't think in grammatically correct sentences and Alex, especially, has a tendency to think and speak in run-on sentences). The only feedback I've gotten so far is from my Writing Buddy, who is the only person who's seen the thing (mostly) in its entirety.

Right now I'm going through it and making sure it makes sense as a cohesive whole, if the motivations make sense, if there's enough dramatic tension...

Yeah, it's going to be a couple of weeks, probably, until it's ready for public consumption. Gyah.