Can you resist?

[Euphony]

Obviously

Matriarchy: LEVEL UP

 

[R. Richard]

I use Libre Office and it catches many of the errors.

I had a chapter of a story all queued up to publish*, the date set and everything. I think “just one more getting my phone to read it to me in the car”…

1. A duplicate “to to”
2. A “stared” instead of “started”
3. A “you” instead of “your”

And I just can’t be Elsa and let it go. I have to fix them. So now back in pending purgatory.

I wrote and apologized to Laurel for messing up her process. But I just couldn’t let it be published knowing about errors.

Of course everything I have ever published has errors. But known ones? *shudder*

Is it just me?

Em

* I’m not officially off writing hiatus, just got inspired by someone and had to write

 

[EmilyMiller]

I use Libre Office and it catches many of the errors.

I used O365 (or whatever Microsoft is calling it now) Word on my iPhone. It doesn’t have the same features as the PC one. But I like to keep my sex stuff just on the ‘phone, where I do all my writing.

Em

 

[samhasstories]

I'm always amazed that people write on their phones. I do as little as possible on my phone. But then my issue might just be that my thumbs are too big for the little phone keyboard - I make more typos than not that way.

The typos do make me cringe, if I'm reading what I've already submitted. I haven't yet called a pending one back, but I wouldn't put it past me.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm always amazed that people write on their phones. I do as little as possible on my phone. But then my issue might just be that my thumbs are too big for the little phone keyboard - I make more typos than not that way.

The typos do make me cringe, if I'm reading what I've already submitted. I haven't yet called a pending one back, but I wouldn't put it past me.

I have small hands.

Em

 

[samhasstories]

I have small hands.

Em

That's useful. My fat thumbs aren't good for much. I've got a decent record at thumb wars, at least.

 

[onehitwanda]

I have small hands.

Em

 

[Booboobear84]

I have small hands.

Em

Do you do any voice to text? Given your story length I am in awe. Cute new avatar

 

[Euphony]

I have small hands.

Em

(Well now I'm gonna have THIS stuck in my head all day thanks to you. Turnabout fair play some such.)

 

[EmilyMiller]

Do you do any voice to text? Given your story length I am in awe. Cute new avatar

No. I just write. I keep meaning to get a Lit-only laptop. But always other priorities for expenditure.

And the phone is convenient, though I could use OneDrive across both.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Do you do any voice to text? Given your story length I am in awe. Cute new avatar

I have an external keyboard. But, given that iOS has screwed up BlueTooth on my ‘phone, I haven’t used it in ages. Not since writing Heaven & Hole.

Em

 

[Booboobear84]

No. I just write. I keep meaning to get a Lit-only laptop. But always other priorities for expenditure.

And the phone is convenient, though I could use OneDrive across both.

Em

If you kept it on one drive then there should be no record on the laptop. Use the phone for browsing and look up.

 

[samhasstories]

If you kept it on one drive then there should be no record on the laptop. Use the phone for browsing and look up.

Yeah I use OneDrive for this stuff, so my smuttier writing isn't saved on the hard drive.

 

[StillStunned]

I do read aloud. But it’s normally in the car. Sometimes I miss stuff .

Em

There's your problem. The true value of Read Aloud is in watching the highlight jump from word to word. It can be like watching paint dry - I know, I do it professionally so for me it's usually several times a day. But in nearly 25 years of editing and proofreading, I've not come across anything as helpful for the final quality check.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Yeah I use OneDrive for this stuff, so my smuttier writing isn't saved on the hard drive.

Um, careful with that. OneDrive works differently than a mapped drive like on a file server. It's a syncing service, not a remote drive.

If there's a little green checkmark beside a file in your OneDrive folder, it absolutely is on your hard drive. Every time you make a change a copy is synced from hard drive to "the cloud" (and vice versa). You can highlight a file and pick "free up space" from the right-click menu to temporarily make it cloud only, but next time you open the file, a copy is downloaded to your hard drive again.

 

[EmilyMiller]

There's your problem. The true value of Read Aloud is in watching the highlight jump from word to word. It can be like watching paint dry - I know, I do it professionally so for me it's usually several times a day. But in nearly 25 years of editing and proofreading, I've not come across anything as helpful for the final quality check.

I agree. But it’s has to fit it in around my work and personal life.

Em

 

[samhasstories]

Um, careful with that. OneDrive works differently than a mapped drive like on a file server. It's a syncing service, not a remote drive.

If there's a little green checkmark beside a file in your OneDrive folder, it absolutely is on your hard drive. Every time you make a change a copy is synced from hard drive to "the cloud" (and vice versa). You can highlight a file and pick "free up space" from the right-click menu to temporarily make it cloud only, but next time you open the file, a copy is downloaded to your hard drive again.

I don't use the account that's synced with my hard drive. I use the cloud storage.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I know what you mean. The previous one was a little austere, right?

Em

Mine is just a quill pen on a journal, so I don't know what's taking so long.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Mine is just a quill pen on a journal, so I don't know what's taking so long.

I think my update took six weeks or maybe even more.

Em

 

[Trionyx]

I have small hands.

Em

Aren’t you glad you’re not a guy?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Aren’t you glad you’re not a guy?

I’d be a Donald Trump clone .

Em

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I'm always amazed that people write on their phones. I do as little as possible on my phone. But then my issue might just be that my thumbs are too big for the little phone keyboard - I make more typos than not that way.

The typos do make me cringe, if I'm reading what I've already submitted. I haven't yet called a pending one back, but I wouldn't put it past me.

It's more convenient than using one of my laptops. I also use OneDrive, so I could write on a tablet I had, too. Buutt me and a guy broke it by accidentally having sex on it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's more convenient than using one of my laptops. I also use OneDrive, so I could write on a tablet I had, too. Buutt me and a guy broke it by accidentally having sex on it.

I hope you were very stern with “the guy” breaking another guy’s tablet like that .

Em

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I hope you were very stern with “the guy” breaking another guy’s tablet like that .

Em

I didn't know it was broken until after he left.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I didn't know it was broken until after he left.

Sure .

Em