{"id":450,"date":"2011-03-09T21:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tikatusmuse.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/09\/im-finding-that-coding-my-stories-is-very-therapeutic\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T21:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:59:31","slug":"im-finding-that-coding-my-stories-is-very-therapeutic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2011\/03\/09\/im-finding-that-coding-my-stories-is-very-therapeutic\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m finding that coding my stories is very\u2026 therapeutic."},"content":{"rendered":"

Been working on coding things for my personal fiction site. I\u2019ve finished and posted Mosaic<\/em> \u2013 though that will be updated when the muse strikes \u2013 and I\u2019m working on The White Winds<\/em>. There\u2019s still lots to do, but I\u2019m almost halfway through the chapter formatting. I\u2019ve managed to get it down to a routine. Open the .txt files, put in the chapter coding snippet for each chapter. Scroll down and add the back and forward buttons snippet. Tweak them to the proper chapter numbers. Remove the \u201cnext time, next chapter\u201d stuff and paste it in a .txt file. Scroll up; add new title and cut the teasers and disclaimer. Then save as a .shtml file. Leave them all open, find a scene divider and change it with the short horizontal line snippet. Copy that, and do a global replace on all open files. Do a preview skim to make sure things look right, then save and close all. Really, I just did about 15 chapters and it only took an hour or so.<\/p>\n

Seriously, the biggest time eater is finding images for the splash pages and writing the foreword. On Mosaic<\/em>, it took me beyond forever to figure out which screencaps to use (and I found I\u2019d duplicated some from earlier stories), and then the free photos that spoke to the drabbles. For The White Winds<\/em>, I\u2019ve asked my daughter to update a piece of cast art that she\u2019d done for me earlier. Her artwork has progressed soooo very far that she was embarrassed by the old stuff. Since I\u2019m working so quickly on coding this, I should poke her about that piece.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also trying to decide if I should add my two non-Thunderbirds<\/em> one-shots to the One Shots book. I\u2019ve done one for The Incredibles<\/em>, and one for Disney\u2019s Beauty and the Beast<\/em>. My fanfiction is so heavily Thunderbirds<\/em>-oriented, but these deserve a home, too. (They are<\/span> posted on ff.net and on FanNation.) Tell me what you think about that.<\/p>\n

In other writing news, I\u2019ve pulled most of my work from Lunaescence Archives. I have several reasons for this. Things that were broken aren\u2019t being fixed is one of them (thinking of forum registration here), but an increasing dissatisfaction with the way the archive is being run, and the ever-stronger skew toward anime and manga (and reader-insert) stories are probably stronger reasons. I\u2019m sad about this, really; so many archives tend to go downhill once their owners are no longer involved in running and upgrading them. And now this has happened (IMHO) to Luna. (Yes, this puts me in mind of Thunderbirds Central, and parts of IR:TNP that need updating, too.)<\/p>\n

As far as my personal \u201ccyberstalker\u201d (Lillehafrue\u2019s term) is concerned, I haven\u2019t heard from her again. Hopefully, I never will.<\/p>\n

Back to the HTML editor, Batman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been working on coding things for my personal fiction site. I\u2019ve finished and posted Mosaic \u2013 though that will be updated when the muse strikes \u2013 and I\u2019m working on The White Winds. There\u2019s still lots to do, but I\u2019m almost halfway through the chapter formatting. I\u2019ve managed to get it down to a routine. Open the .txt files, put in the chapter coding snippet for each chapter. Scroll down and add the back and forward buttons snippet. Tweak them…<\/p>\n

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