Okay, seriously.
Nov. 13th, 2009 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritThis day can just die in a fire.
I need my Word CD in the worst way. Have I found it yet? Oh, hell no. Have I torn the house apart looking for it? Oh, hell yes.
Behold my adventures in formatting. Same story, different market. They want the Book Antiqua font. Which, WTF, I've never seen a market ask for that ever. And why in the hell, when I've got four different Book Antiqua fonts showing in my Font folder, am I only getting one (and an italicized one at that) to show up on my fonts list in OpenOffice? I THOUGHT OPENOFFICE WAS SUPPOSED TO NOT SUCK. Also, my .rtf formatting is ALL wonky, like, seriously, I don't even know how it got to looking like this. Some of it is double-spaced, some single, some in Times New Roman, some in Courier New. WHAT HAPPENED??? Some has a space between paragraphs.
WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN.
This is the Universe's way of telling me that this story is never ever going to be published EVER no matter how much I love it and think it's one of the best things I've ever written, isn't it?
Screw it. I'm going to bed. Maybe things will look better in the morning. I doubt it, but maybe.
And tomorrow I'm going to load Wordperfect. Because this is ridiculous.
I need my Word CD in the worst way. Have I found it yet? Oh, hell no. Have I torn the house apart looking for it? Oh, hell yes.
Behold my adventures in formatting. Same story, different market. They want the Book Antiqua font. Which, WTF, I've never seen a market ask for that ever. And why in the hell, when I've got four different Book Antiqua fonts showing in my Font folder, am I only getting one (and an italicized one at that) to show up on my fonts list in OpenOffice? I THOUGHT OPENOFFICE WAS SUPPOSED TO NOT SUCK. Also, my .rtf formatting is ALL wonky, like, seriously, I don't even know how it got to looking like this. Some of it is double-spaced, some single, some in Times New Roman, some in Courier New. WHAT HAPPENED??? Some has a space between paragraphs.
WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN.
This is the Universe's way of telling me that this story is never ever going to be published EVER no matter how much I love it and think it's one of the best things I've ever written, isn't it?
Screw it. I'm going to bed. Maybe things will look better in the morning. I doubt it, but maybe.
And tomorrow I'm going to load Wordperfect. Because this is ridiculous.
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Date: 2009-11-13 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 07:22 pm (UTC)Today has to be better. Right? RIGHT???
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Date: 2009-11-13 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 07:25 pm (UTC)It doesn't help that the writing isn't going as swimmingly as I think it should be. I don't think I've ever had such a hard time making words come before. I'd start something new, but I don't have a glimmer of Plot, and the WIPs aren't pinging, although something needs to because Q1 of WotF is coming up soon.
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Date: 2009-11-13 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 07:26 pm (UTC)