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leethet ([personal profile] leethet) wrote2004-05-19 11:32 am

You know...

...something just occurred to me in light of the flood of vignettes that seem to be out there ... is it going to become the preferred style of online fic-writing, and are the longer stories I must assume someone's writing somewhere all reserved for zines?
That would be a bummer. I like long stuff, and I liked it being free. :)

Italics

[identity profile] tgabrielle.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
How did our comments become italics? I will be interested to see how this turns out and it is not emphatic by any stretch. Someone teased me long ago that all of my stories were exactly thirty pages long, like I had a timer for them. So, I decided to go longer and I have. HOWEVER, I suppose it is a good exercise to be consise at times. Part of me has never enjoyed short stories in any form and I'm not even talking about vinyettes. I just don't know what to do with my stories. I'm not going to go the zine route anymore. But, at least for me, I'm not sure what works. There are many options to be sure, but I can't come up with what is the best.

Re: Italics

[identity profile] tgabrielle.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, and Nat's comments are no longer in italics. I swear they were. I must be quite nuts.

Re: Italics

[identity profile] tgabrielle.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
And it's vignettes and concise and I'm going for good now!

Re: Italics

[identity profile] leethet.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
I believe you. It happened to me once on Clare's LJ. I think I typed start-ital and end-ital backward in a reply, and EVERYTHING after that, including others' responses, was in italics. Then the next time I went back to the site, it was OK. I thought I had broken her LJ and italicized it all forever. :)

Re: Italics

[identity profile] tgabrielle.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
The are in italics again now.

Re: Italics

[identity profile] tgabrielle.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
uh, they