RaReason
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Things are getting better!
🕑 Added 2025-05-02 19:42:22 +0000 UTCMy 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
TeDureShi
Eldritch resuming anytime soon?
RaReason
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
Mora_Insight
Happy for you (I don’t know anything about writing programs)
Bridget Haley
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!
