Fic progress
16 July 2023 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeChapter 13 of Hertha uploaded; I was hoping for a slightly more enthusiastic reception given that this is one of the major turning points of the story and people had actually been asking where the next chapter was, but it was as muted as usual.
Nearly finished now -- we just have the final confrontation (in this case between Hertha and Christine rather than between Christine and the Phantom!) and then the epilogue chapter.
Meanwhile I have typed Chapter 30 of Arctic Raoul, although I'm not all that happy with it. It's very much an 'in-between chapter' by its nature, since it covers the lengthy and fruitless search before they happen across Kulla; the C/R stuff, perhaps unsurprisingly, is quite good, but the 'action scene' I'd remembered is literally *two paragraphs* out of a four-thousand-word chapter, 150 words from "the pony threw up his head and bolted" to "a moment later it was all over"...
I'm not at all sure what the situation with AO3 is; I think they *may* have gone with one of the less-aggressive Cloudflare options that only blocks 'non-standard' browsers when an actual spam attack is detected, because I have been able to access the site on all the occasions I've tried recently.
Yes: https://archiveofourown.org/comments/669233047 (buried in the middle of a post about "2023 Candidate Chats!")
It has, however, prompted me to upload my three Pirates of the Caribbean fics (which have received more kudos/hits than the POTO upload!) and the remaining Crimson Peak stories, although it was a pretty laborious process even with having abandoned the idea of uploading everything to my own site in parallel.
In the other direction, I have managed to upload "Appraisal" to FFNet (and got a review on it, plus an unsolicited inviation to engage in Harry Potter roleplay :-D). "For Valentine" will need reformatting at home first (cutting and pasting raw HTML into FFnet no longer seems to work, as I learned the hard way with "Appraisal" -- you need a pre-prepared file with story text and nothing but story text, rather than just a page dump from another site). And I may as well reformat "A Thing of Value" at home as well where I have the tools to do it easily and efficiently.
I'm a little worried that I don't actually seem to have local copies of either of those stories, which is asking for trouble; apparently I just typed them into temporary text files at the time...
Nearly finished now -- we just have the final confrontation (in this case between Hertha and Christine rather than between Christine and the Phantom!) and then the epilogue chapter.
Meanwhile I have typed Chapter 30 of Arctic Raoul, although I'm not all that happy with it. It's very much an 'in-between chapter' by its nature, since it covers the lengthy and fruitless search before they happen across Kulla; the C/R stuff, perhaps unsurprisingly, is quite good, but the 'action scene' I'd remembered is literally *two paragraphs* out of a four-thousand-word chapter, 150 words from "the pony threw up his head and bolted" to "a moment later it was all over"...
I'm not at all sure what the situation with AO3 is; I think they *may* have gone with one of the less-aggressive Cloudflare options that only blocks 'non-standard' browsers when an actual spam attack is detected, because I have been able to access the site on all the occasions I've tried recently.
Yes: https://archiveofourown.org/comments/669233047 (buried in the middle of a post about "2023 Candidate Chats!")
It has, however, prompted me to upload my three Pirates of the Caribbean fics (which have received more kudos/hits than the POTO upload!) and the remaining Crimson Peak stories, although it was a pretty laborious process even with having abandoned the idea of uploading everything to my own site in parallel.
In the other direction, I have managed to upload "Appraisal" to FFNet (and got a review on it, plus an unsolicited inviation to engage in Harry Potter roleplay :-D). "For Valentine" will need reformatting at home first (cutting and pasting raw HTML into FFnet no longer seems to work, as I learned the hard way with "Appraisal" -- you need a pre-prepared file with story text and nothing but story text, rather than just a page dump from another site). And I may as well reformat "A Thing of Value" at home as well where I have the tools to do it easily and efficiently.
I'm a little worried that I don't actually seem to have local copies of either of those stories, which is asking for trouble; apparently I just typed them into temporary text files at the time...