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Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Interesting note over on the Site That is Not Red, Larry. It does make sense. I'll start contributing again (and reading again) over there, as soon as these damn flash fictions get formatted correctly. Don't hold your breath.
I'll have some of the that köffee Bill. Long day today.
Unquenchable Cyn (I like that!), thanks for getting big B up and running, and CONGRATS on being mod o' the month yet again!
EDIT: Cynthia was last month's MotM not this month's. Sorry, I got confused. Still, she's an excellent mod!
I'll have some of the that köffee Bill. Long day today.
Unquenchable Cyn (I like that!), thanks for getting big B up and running, and CONGRATS on being mod o' the month yet again!
EDIT: Cynthia was last month's MotM not this month's. Sorry, I got confused. Still, she's an excellent mod!
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by Lauradj
Ummmmmmmmmm you forgot to credit me in this post, V-Man about my good teaching skills, first in finding the mistake and then teaching you how to write the word marriage.
Oh noes! Mad props to our resident New Zealander and her many fine abilities, one of which is pointing out to me when the word "marriage" is spelled incorrectly in the tags! She is also a hell of a flash writer. I'm buying whatever you're drinking, Laura.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
In formatting hell now.
Join me!
Here are the fairly boring details as far as how to format an eBook for Amazon. As far as fonts, I am going with the Georgia font, 24 pt for title, 12 pt for text. Justified text (meaning lines up on the left and the right) (I totally forgot about that until like 2 days ago, I don't like justified text) (I keep forgetting stuff, and having to go back and add it to all the other stories). Single space. One space between sentences (I had to do a find-and-replace on all the stories). No spaces between paragraphs. .2 em indent on each paragraph. DON'T USE TAB TO INDENT YOUR PARAGRAPHS (I had to replace those too).
I learned the ideal way to do format is to import the text into Calibre, mark it up with xhtml, and export it as an .ePub. Fuck that, I just don't have time. I want to launch on the day after Valentine's Day, so I have about 2 months, and one of those months is Christmas, when there is no free time. So I am just gonna make sure the books are formatted cleanly, and hope they look okay.
Added a new expense: I am paying a friend to line-edit the stories. I have WAY too many typos.
That's about it. The logistics behind building 52 books is a little daunting.
Join me!
Here are the fairly boring details as far as how to format an eBook for Amazon. As far as fonts, I am going with the Georgia font, 24 pt for title, 12 pt for text. Justified text (meaning lines up on the left and the right) (I totally forgot about that until like 2 days ago, I don't like justified text) (I keep forgetting stuff, and having to go back and add it to all the other stories). Single space. One space between sentences (I had to do a find-and-replace on all the stories). No spaces between paragraphs. .2 em indent on each paragraph. DON'T USE TAB TO INDENT YOUR PARAGRAPHS (I had to replace those too).
I learned the ideal way to do format is to import the text into Calibre, mark it up with xhtml, and export it as an .ePub. Fuck that, I just don't have time. I want to launch on the day after Valentine's Day, so I have about 2 months, and one of those months is Christmas, when there is no free time. So I am just gonna make sure the books are formatted cleanly, and hope they look okay.
Added a new expense: I am paying a friend to line-edit the stories. I have WAY too many typos.
That's about it. The logistics behind building 52 books is a little daunting.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by Ping
WHAT THE FUCK, MAN?!?
Am I wallpaper or something? Fine. I’ll get my drinks elsewhere.
Screw this joint.
Ping, you Magnificent Bastard, I'd be happy to buy you a beer. Or 5.
Crappy day. Keep em coming.
EDIT: I just wrote a frankly pretty boring post in the Shard-o-verse about formatting decisions when publishing an eBook. But if you're thinking about doing an eBook someday it might be interesting.
https://forum.lushstories.com/yaf_postst54177p3_The-Shardoverse.aspx
Keep em coming.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by sprite
you could have just asked, you know. dope.
I was an egregious and a little embarrassing misspelling of "marriage" in the tags, right under the title. Plus I wanted to add the tag "quantum mechanics."
The original typo was caught by Bill, the captain of our favorite bar. Lord knows I wouldn't have caught it. As much as I write you'd think I'd be better at proofing.
Late afternoon beer please.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Man, it is slow in here today. Thanks for setting up Bertha, Larry.
Here is Gill's early Christmas present: a large, unopened bottle of NyQuil (grape flavored!).
I learned a Lush editing tip last night: you can change the tags on your story without having it go through a mod! I had misspelled the tag "marriage" so I went back in and changed it, and added some more tags as well, and assumed my story would be down for a few hours, but nope! It was live the second I hit Publish.
EDIT: Thanks Cynthia (I never knnew your actual name until you sent the email) for fixing the typo!
Köffêè please.
Here is Gill's early Christmas present: a large, unopened bottle of NyQuil (grape flavored!).
I learned a Lush editing tip last night: you can change the tags on your story without having it go through a mod! I had misspelled the tag "marriage" so I went back in and changed it, and added some more tags as well, and assumed my story would be down for a few hours, but nope! It was live the second I hit Publish.
EDIT: Thanks Cynthia (I never knnew your actual name until you sent the email) for fixing the typo!
Köffêè please.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
I have a new Flash up: Schrödinger's Kitten. Apparently that title has already been taken by a novella that won a Hugo award, but I didn't know that, so didn't knowingly steal it. Besides, I doubt mine will get a Hugo.
Anyway: https://www.lushstories.com/stories/flash-erotica/-schr%C3%B6dingers-kitten-.aspx
Scott, I am glad you pulled the trigger on your story. You are too harsh on your writing, as Bill and Lyf point out. As for me, yeah, annything over 6k gives me pause, I will usually eventually read something that long, but rather than read it right when I encounter it, I will queue it up to read later. As I did with Thomas Murphy's 10k Man slut story, which I am going to read now.
Burrbin please.
Anyway: https://www.lushstories.com/stories/flash-erotica/-schr%C3%B6dingers-kitten-.aspx
Scott, I am glad you pulled the trigger on your story. You are too harsh on your writing, as Bill and Lyf point out. As for me, yeah, annything over 6k gives me pause, I will usually eventually read something that long, but rather than read it right when I encounter it, I will queue it up to read later. As I did with Thomas Murphy's 10k Man slut story, which I am going to read now.
Burrbin please.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by RumpleForeskin
Authorially speaking, things seem a tad slo at the moment. Sure hope Rumplators are up to somethin good or at least fun.
;)
I should have a new story ready by Monday with a little luck. Overly cutesy title--Schrödinger's Kitten--and one thst has been used by a Hugo award winning book, but I have no pride. It fits, so I used it.
Date night tonight will consist of moving furniture and such to get ready to replace carpeting house-wide. We will do our best to make it fun, and reward ourselves amply when we are finished.
Köffee please. Enjoy the weekend everyone.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by GraceW
Calibre is a terrific program, although it does sometimes need pointing in the right direction if you are cataloguing a huge library from disparate sources. What format are your stories in now?
hmmm. 3:30. Tea time. Rumps, did you say something about almond log and silly smile? Sounds like just the thing to go with a pot of tea. I'd be ever so graceful I mean grateful.
They're in .docx. I need to take them into Calibre and format them as .ePub before I upload them onto Amazon. I need to add xhtml formatting I think. Sounds like a lot of work. I still have so much to learn about all this.
Our tree and decorations go up this weekend. We used to cut our own tree down and make an event of it, but we are more chill about it these days. Bought an artificial tree 2 years ago and it's a LOT easier. We'll put Christmas lights on the porch, and a small inflatable penguin on the lawn (even though there are NO PENGUINS on the North Pole!). Nothing crazy.
I'll join Buz with a shot of Maker's Mark.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by fuzzyblue
Cum is a verb that apologises for itself; it is abbreviated and harsh, yet too weak-willed to say what it really is. It's as emotionless as swiping right. It is so abrupt it doesn't have a past tense. It is a verb so artificial I bet it's trademarked somewhere. It smells of plastic, of railway stations, of spilt milk. When men cum they do it remorsefully. It ends up as the gunk at the end of a condom or stuck between the pages of a magazine.
Come is sensous. It is two people, or maybe more, wanting the other to join them. It is creamy, fertile strings or dissipated sighs. It glistens when you say it. It is confident. It knows exactly where it is going.
I didn't realise I felt so strongly about this. I feel quite light-headed.
This is so well written I want to agree with you.
I get a sexual charge from the word cum, and I don't think it's emotionless or artifical at all! I like that it's a made-up word that emerged from people talking about sex and lacking the vocabulary in traditional English, and so going outside the boundaries to find one. I LOVE that it's spelled weird and doesn't follow standard English tense rules. There's almost a reckessness about it. It's a flawed and very human word.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Good morning all, and Curvy the Unquenchable, thanks for getting Bertha hot and pumping out brew. Looking forward to your story, Curves.
So I found out yesterday it's best to convert all the Shards (they aren't called that now) to .epub format, with the help of a free open-source program called Calibre. Arg! Formatting these Damned Things is gonna kill me. I don't have time!
Speaking of no time, Christmas decorations go up this weekend! First round of presents is bought!
Layla sez hi.
It's 9:30 and I have no annoying emails from work. I don't know what to do with myself.
Köffee please.
So I found out yesterday it's best to convert all the Shards (they aren't called that now) to .epub format, with the help of a free open-source program called Calibre. Arg! Formatting these Damned Things is gonna kill me. I don't have time!
Speaking of no time, Christmas decorations go up this weekend! First round of presents is bought!
Layla sez hi.
It's 9:30 and I have no annoying emails from work. I don't know what to do with myself.
Köffee please.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by seeker4
Story is back on. More sex added. It's going to be long with lots of build-up. Still need to flesh (he he) out one part of the story that's kind of important to the emotional element.
A pint, please.
Yay!
Crazy busy day, but wanted to pop in and sayy hi. So, hi!
Köfffee please!
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by seeker4
I work in IT. I know how to make sure things aren't recoverable.smGLZLEFVzEbStvc
And I also know how to recover them.
And it was still a long way from being ready for submission in any case (yes, it was headed for the 10K limit).
There's likely a copy hiding on my continuous backup at home but I want to try rewriting first. I really don't like a core aspect of the original. Short version: I've decided that I have written too many damn stories about guys banging women young enough to be their daughter. Not their actual daughters, mind you, but women who are sufficiently younger than them to seem that way.
Another vino, please.
An IT question: do you know how to batch search-and-replace 30 or so documents at once? They are .docx files, and I need roughly 200 words (the beginning and end) replaced in each document. I don't think Word/OfficeLibre can do it, and the free programs I've found don't work with the amount of text I want.
I'll take a beer.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by seeker4
I need a wine.
Deleted my latest. 7000 words down the drain. I began second guessing an aspect of it (which I might start a thread on) and couldn't see a way to salvage it without starting over. And, to be honest, I'm not even sure it's worth starting over. I'll probably just let it go and see what I feel like writing in the new year. Only a week and a bit until vacation when I won't have a computer for 9 days anyhow.
Dude! You delete more than you publish! Go into the Recylce Bin and pull that sucker out and submit!
Nic, I only know one Kirsty MacColl song, and it's not even fully her: Fairytale of New York. It's the official Christmas song of NYC. Go into an Irish bar in NYC in December ad you'll hear it on the juuke within 15 minutes of ordering your first beer. She's SO good in it.
Iced tea, please. Still working....
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
It's a loss. There were so many deliciously hot Tumblr sites here on Lush. I used to have one myself. I imagine trying to replicate Tumblr here on Lush would be frighteningly difficult in terms of coding and server space. And almost no one owns the rights to the pix posted. Bummer. I enjoy the occasional trip down the rabbit hole into someone's Tumblr stash of images.
EDIT: Great article in Slate on this: https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-porn-should-be-welcomed-not-banned.html
"What banning “adult content” will do, however, is eradicate one of the few mainstream, safe, and non- places where people could participate in communities that openly congregate around sex and sexuality. Sex is great, and it’s no wonder that people like to consume sexual images—much of the internet is dedicated to this. Knowing that one could roll onto Tumblr, a very popular social media site, find a blog dedicated to whatever flavor of porn one likes, and look at images that turn one on, made the whole ordeal of seeking sexual imagery less daunting, demeaning, and dangerous."
EDIT: Great article in Slate on this: https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-porn-should-be-welcomed-not-banned.html
"What banning “adult content” will do, however, is eradicate one of the few mainstream, safe, and non- places where people could participate in communities that openly congregate around sex and sexuality. Sex is great, and it’s no wonder that people like to consume sexual images—much of the internet is dedicated to this. Knowing that one could roll onto Tumblr, a very popular social media site, find a blog dedicated to whatever flavor of porn one likes, and look at images that turn one on, made the whole ordeal of seeking sexual imagery less daunting, demeaning, and dangerous."
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Morning all. Thanks for getting things going Bill. I'll have a köffee.
Crazy that they are taking down all NSFW Tunblr sites (there are a couple different threads about it in the Forum). There are going to be a LOT of bummed Lushies - some amazingly hot Tumblr sites here. Lotsa work down the drain. I had my own, back in the day.
I have a new story started--nothing comp-worthy--but Christmas is taking away all my writing time. I used to love Christmas. I still do enjoy bits of it here and there, and even get sentimental about it from time to time, but mostly it's a lot of work and stress (and money!). Bah humbug!
Okay. Gotta work.
Crazy that they are taking down all NSFW Tunblr sites (there are a couple different threads about it in the Forum). There are going to be a LOT of bummed Lushies - some amazingly hot Tumblr sites here. Lotsa work down the drain. I had my own, back in the day.
I have a new story started--nothing comp-worthy--but Christmas is taking away all my writing time. I used to love Christmas. I still do enjoy bits of it here and there, and even get sentimental about it from time to time, but mostly it's a lot of work and stress (and money!). Bah humbug!
Okay. Gotta work.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by Lauradj
Guess who's story just got awarded an RR? Mine beeeeeetch! My new story is up. Haven't written in soooooooooooo long, it was nice to do so once more and scratch the writing itch. Very different from what I normally write, not much for voyeur or exhibitionist stuff, but the idea just came to me.
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/voyeur/-she-watched-.aspx
Jusst wanted to add in my two cents that this is indeed a great flash.
Larry, I took a dance class in college once and at the end was voted "most improved." Which is code for "you really sucked when you started, and suck slightly less now."
Writing is slow, but coming along. Grace, I'll join you in a "fixed-up" tea, if you'll have me - mid-afternoon and I need a jolt of energy.
Murph, welcome to the bar. First story out is an RR! Nice! Look forward to reading it.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Yay! Gill made it through Thanksgiving successfully and gracefully.
Hey Adagio, hey Larry.
We watched a pretty bad horror movie last night - Urban Legend. Even paid $4 to see it on Amazon. It had a little bit of game, but I mostly wanted to watch it because Rebecca Gayheart is in it. I think she is just INSANELY pretty. I remember thinking she might become a big star because she had such presence, but her career dived because she was involved in a drunken driving thing where I think a kid was killed. Anyway. Used to celebrity crush on her pretty hard.
Here's a gif of her acting all crazy. I probably just spoilered the ending for all of you. Sorry.
Burrbin, rocks please.
Hey Adagio, hey Larry.
We watched a pretty bad horror movie last night - Urban Legend. Even paid $4 to see it on Amazon. It had a little bit of game, but I mostly wanted to watch it because Rebecca Gayheart is in it. I think she is just INSANELY pretty. I remember thinking she might become a big star because she had such presence, but her career dived because she was involved in a drunken driving thing where I think a kid was killed. Anyway. Used to celebrity crush on her pretty hard.
Here's a gif of her acting all crazy. I probably just spoilered the ending for all of you. Sorry.
Burrbin, rocks please.