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Things are getting better!

My drive to write is returning along with my health. I'm not going to make any promises right now about the schedule because the last two times I did that, something bonkers went wrong and swept my legs out from under me, but I'm happily writing again.

Here's where I bitch about a small problem that maybe you all have a solution to: I write in Libreoffice because 1: it's free and 2: It doesn't have a pop-up every fifteen minutes. I tried using Word a year or two ago, and it was so gross and... just a bad experience compared to what I grew up with.

Anyway, when I'm done with a chapter, I reread it a few times, editing as I go, before I post it on patreon and go over it with Grammarly and discover how many commas I forgot to use or how many times I didn't type "the." For the most part, the formatting stays the same except for line breaks (hitting "Enter" a few times) or indentation. For instance, when you see a

*

In Libreoffice, that's me hitting Tab 3 times, putting an asterisk down, hitting tab 3 more times, asterisk, and then once more, so the chapter break has 3 spaced asterisks.

Is the fact that they're disappearing on patreon have to do with it being eaten up by the site's editor or some HTML shenanigans? If there's a quick fix I couldn't find with Google, that'd be fantastic, otherwise, I'll just deal.

That's all from me!

Hope you're all having a wonderful week, and I'll see you with another chapter (hopefully) soon!

Comments

Eldritch resuming anytime soon?

TeDureShi

I've looked through the forums before but didn't find what I was looking for. Looks like I might have to create an account and ask a question like some kind of human being with agency. ;D

RaReason

Happy for you (I don’t know anything about writing programs)

Mora_Insight

I've not used LibreOffice for writing previously, but I love a good open source software! Typically they have pretty big community forums, have you looked for an answer there? This is out of my wheelhouse on a couple of fronts, so that's about as helpful as I can be. Honestly, I don't notice any distracting formatting issues when reading. I'm really happy to hear you're excited to write more! I'm glad your life is not a total rollercoaster right now either!

Bridget Haley


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