uh oh! the neurotic suffer

[cavisze.livejournal.com]

Well, only if they have Bleach (or other) fics posted on ff.net, anyway.  Here is a heads up to everyone who have finished works or works in progress on ff.net:


The site has recently re-updated their filtering system to exclude more stuff they don't like, including hyphens for page breaks (- - -, etc.), and even foreign letters (é, ñ, ó, etc.). This came as a total surprise (to me, at least!) and immediately effected thousands of fics with the authors/writers receiving no warning or e-mail, or anything of the sort. So if you have a lot of "rule-breaking fics", you might want to go in and edit so that current and future readers do not get too confused and bombard you with reviews about syntax. 

On the upside, page breaks do look cleaner than ---- or whatever.  Also, I suppose everyone's pieces will be more similar? on that superficial level?

Eh... I am sorry this is not directly about Bleach! 

Comments

[laurabryannan.livejournal.com]

I really appreciate the heads-up, as I rely on ------- to mark my section breaks and the dashes are indeed disappeared from my stories there. GRRRRRRR! I've replaced them with XXX because it won't take anything else, but what a pain. I'll probably take a bunch down rather than edit them all.

[cavisze.livejournal.com]

That's a shame, but I bet that lots of authors will either follow suit or simply do nothing. Doing that sort of editing is too annoying to bother with, sometimes.

[xilvrin.livejournal.com]

I haven't liked fanfiction.net for along time. I'd rather read fics on livejournal. heh.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_debbiechan_/]

OH ADSFLKHGHJGLHGKHKHKGAS;HJKHG;HGK;HGKAG;KHL;KGHA;G

FF.net has always screwed with my formatting and I've got a ZILLION stories, all especially formatted for just this one site which I boycotted for years because of their koo-koo policies and the way they treated authors and....

Hmphrf....

I'm just not in the mood to edit at the moment.
Thanks for letting me know.

[adam-epp.livejournal.com]

This is frustrating since I use WordSuck as my word processor and don't know how to actually insert page breaks. Consequently, I used three hyphens as my page break of choice.

I should do something like putting...

*insert page break*

...where every page break used to be.

[cavisze.livejournal.com]

Or go in and mark all the breaks with an 'O' or something for the sake of less work, er typing. They won't ever go so far as to outlaw any of the actual 26 English letters, right?

[grass-angel.livejournal.com]

That violates the rights of correct grammar or something.
Besides, page breaks are only really relevant in print, not so much in onscreen. Unless word has been lying to me about page breaks.
Bleh, I'll just leave mine as it is, and let people complain.

[yawns-widely.livejournal.com]

Crap. Thanks for the heads up. This really fucks my work up, and I didn't even know. What's worse is that I deleted half of my stuff on my laptop, trusting to the sancticty of the site - damn damn damn. Might have to be a copy and paste job now.

Thanks again!