Time grows short

[kerravonsen]

Okay, I have five early eager-beavers who have already sent in their Lyric Wheel submissions, and one person who has dropped out because of RL. And me, because I've finished mine also. That leaves eight left, plus one backup fic to be written.

Please let me know if you don't think you'll be able to finish by the 19th of May. That includes the person writing the backup fic, because I could possibly reassign that to someone who has already finished their own assignment.

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Mine will definitely be in on time, but, while I'm thinking about it, I have a question about formatting... I know we're supposed to use *'s to indicate italics, but is there anything specific you want/need us to do for scene breaks? I usually use "**" as scene dividers. If you're using a script to convert plaintext to HTML, is it likely to get confused by that? I can change it to something else easily enough.

[kerravonsen]

is there anything specific you want/need us to do for scene breaks?

I hadn't really thought about it, but probably a line of dashes ----------- would be good: that will translate as a HR in the converter, which is probably a reasonable thing for scene breaks.

But using "**" would not be a problem, it would just remain as "**" (the italics detector is clever enough not to interpret sequences of **** as italic markers).

One thing that will not work for a scene-divider is multiple blank lines, because the converter will just ignore that, since it treats one blank line or three blank lines as exactly the same.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think I'll just leave it as is, then.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Aaaaugh! I'll have to send mine in again with that fixed.

[kerravonsen]

Sorry about that -- I just realized it this morning.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Right, how about ------ going to an hr for big breaks and oOo for little ones?

[kerravonsen]

That would be fine. 8-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'd really prefer the small breaks to be as unobtrusive as possible. How about a single dash - ?

[kerravonsen]

I think that would be *too* small, and possibly ambiguous. A single '*' would be fine.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'll do *** as you said they'd be ignored, and the bigger breaks are hrs anyway.

[knight-random.livejournal.com]

Unfortuantley, it doesn't look like I'll be able to finish my story on time.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks for letting me know.