tinpra

There is something completely depressing about the ff.net story stats page--namely the ability to watch people read your story and either (a) not get past the first chapter and/or (b) read but not think you worthy of a review, even a cheesy one.

So apparently it's been a few days since I've checked one of my email addresses (I have 3 primary and my original hotmail acct that I check periodically) and I have 2 notices from the library that I have books on hold. Two notices and 3 books, and I'm sure that at least one of those books is as big as the tome I am currently reading (The Lies of Locke Lamora if you're curious. Good book. More cussing than I'd like, but what do you expect from a story where the heroes are thieves, con men and gangsters?). I think I've bitten off more than I can chew. Meep!

I should probably go back to posting my readings, but God knows it's been lots of WIPs (:p erinm_4600) and chain-read fanfic. I'll ponder...

Unrelated: One of my stories has received a spurt of interest on FF.net seemingly overnight. Yay!

Actually, fandom is up in arms over FF.net's decision to not only disallow symbols as scene/section markers, but also deleting scene markers already in use. If you have a story currently uploaded to FF.net and you did not use the horizontal line that Word spits out, or the one you can get through FF.net's editing feature, then whatever you did use is gone. No spaces, no asterisk. Gone.

And the announcement that this was happening? New as of today. The same day all the symbols were removed. Email them at support@fanfiction.net and tell them to put the symbols back. There's no reason they couldn't grandfather our section-markers. The only reason I know about this is because of lieueitak. I shudder to think about what most of my fic looks like. And you people wonder why I left :p

Oy, FF.net.