Wilde_Guess

For October, I’ve been quietly rolling out small bug fixes, most are just performance based.

Two user side ones
-Site based e-mails are now fixed (turns out this was not a code based bug, fixed as of this post)
- Bold text has returned to stories.
 
DG is going to be doing some proofreading and squishing typo gremlins.

Thank you.

No worries! It’s been moved over the the right category for you.  

Hi, Deadman and all.
You could have her wear a one piece thong type swimsuit using that for the top, and a pair of shorts or skirt for the bottom.  The type of swimsuit I’m talking about is the type where instead of going around the waist, the bottom of the suit has straps that go over the shoulder and provide a hint or so of modesty around the front of the breasts.  This top is not only sexy to look at, but can be very sexy to remove, with the wearer’s permission of course.  “She nodded at him nervously in consent, nibbling just a bit at her lower lip.  He unfastened her skirt, allowing it to fall to the floor.  He placed his hands gently on her shoulders, and brushed the straps off of them.  The straps of her swimsuit fell to her feet, leaving her very nude and starting to glisten between the legs.”
You can also search for “sexy top” on your search engine of choice, and pick the one that suits your fancy for the character.
Cheers!

What?  That’s limiting…   
More seriously, I learned by doing it wrong in my first original story (now deleted).  I crammed it with so much backstory/flashback that I confused my readers and myself.  On reflection, I realized I basically had multiple stories in one.  So, I spun one backstory off as a regular chaptered story (complete), and the other off as an episodic serial (still WIP).  And working on a second episodic to explain where the main protagonist’s swimming instructor came from, so yeah, gotta cut backstory off at a point or it’ll explode with plot bunnies and you’ll never get back around to writing the story you intended to write in the first place.

Like I said, I sometimes use it for emphasis, mainly when the text is already italicized (eg, because it’s a character’s thoughts). Also, chapter titles.

Hi, Deadman.
GeorgeGlass would have no choice but to switch bold to ALL CAPS text.  Using an “all-caps font” would see the font stripped and substituted for whatever font is actually used.  Capital A is unicode 0041.  Lowercase a is unicode 0061.  So, the “lower case a that is a capital A in font x” will go back to a lowercase a.
Thanks.

Right. Since bolding doesn’t show up on AFF, what I’m looking for is a macro that can turn bolded text (which I sometimes use for emphasis) into ALL-CAPS TEXT throughout a document. I’ve written macros that can make lots of other kinds of systematic formatting changes, but changing the case of letters is a bit beyond me.

Hi, Deadman.
GeorgeGlass would have no choice but to switch bold to ALL CAPS text.  Using an “all-caps font” would see the font stripped and substituted for whatever font is actually used.  Capital A is unicode 0041.  Lowercase a is unicode 0061.  So, the “lower case a that is a capital A in font x” will go back to a lowercase a.
Thanks.

Yeah, I tend to make sure I’m writing well. The only place where I need help is the Tags which I like to be accurate between WIP and Complete.

Whatever it is, it's really gnawing at my obsessive side. >.>
It seems that the problem only happens to things that are edited.
But whatever is added in the very first instance, seems to work properly.
Anyone who wants to have a clean description or tags, be sure to make the first post count.

Honestly, I think we’re WAY beyond that point by now… I think they’re in the fucking software… they’re in the fucking closet, trying on our heels, sparkly dresses and our favourite lipstick at this point. 

Should we be worried that the Gremlins might get into the wires and eats the connections?

More gremlins. I’ve tried to edit that myself, and even I can’t fix it. 

44054 … I generally only “notice” it being down when others comment on it, lol.

And, St. Elsewhere has been down for the past two days.

Guessing that’s what caused the issues in the first place! 

I am so in accordance with this. All of this. (Except the living on my own, which is something I aspire to with all my heart.)

Not exactly a fandom but a book. I won’t read it. I live on my own these days and nobody makes the long trip up the hill to visit anymore so I have a pretty good idea what I’ve got in the house, and I know for a fact I did not buy that book. I certainly didn’t borrow it from the library. (They are good people there, the librarians, dedicated, and they have standards even in these days when their power and their glory is unknowingly ignored by so many). Sometimes it’s on the shelf. Sometimes it’s on the table. I’ve seen it in the kitchen cupboard and I found it in the attic when I went to investigate the noise (a swallow had got in, and driven to panic by the tome wished to get out. I helped it. Of course I did. I’m no monster no matter what the villagers said). The cover has a nice blue, though the face that gazes from it is not appealing and speaks of an unhealthy appetite, of wealth gained too young. The pages rifle pleasingly in the breeze, even in a still room. I don’t care. Offer me what you may. Tempt me, taunt me. I can’t be bought, or broken. The line is drawn, underlined, surrounded by unevenly doodled pentagrams, in both black, and in red.
I’m never gonna fucking read "May I Have Your Attention Please?" the autobiography of James Corden.
This I swear by the old gods, the new, and those yet to come.

You know the old adage: “Do not invoke that which you cannot banish.”  

Actually, your “upstairs/downstairs bookstore” option is a pretty good example. Basically, the family friendly to Hooters style restaurant is above ground and it has a more adult oriented space underground from a bygone era. They’re treated as separate businesses, but part of the story is that they are brought under a single owner.

44018
I’ve broken 20k words this month, so that’s “thawing” IMO.  Not quite the 100k+ I was managing in the fall, but yeah, good to get words pumping again.

44016
After a couple of months of nothing, I’ve finally had some luck this past week, a bit of wind again in my story.

it’s a sense of entitlement that gets to me.  My free time, not going to submit to schedule/demands (which is why I thought I hated writing for many years before I got into Harry Potter fanfiction, there’s a big difference between assigned writing & free writing). 
My current potter story’s now of drinking age, and I stumbled over a plot point I was having trouble deciding on how to show it… that stalled me, I delved into originals, and came back.  And when I restarted, I re-read and realized it needed an overhaul.  A happy little accident in the rewrite, and it’s a lot richer of a tale now than it was then.

Hi, all.
I’m a bit late to this, but I decided to add my thoughts.
I would generally have to agree with you on bringing “real life people” into a fictional story.  B is right out.  For “C,” I might bring a “personality trait” into the mix.  But while I’ve seen the trait or behavior in real life, neither you nor even the person themselves will realize that I “copied” the trait, and only that trait, from them.  There lies the way to lawsuits.
My “A” is only slightly more expansive than yours.  Since I’m using a real-life set of locations, I also need to be very careful with people holding real-life positions.  In fact, my disclaimer explicitly disclaims non-historic actions by historic or public figures.  I have one celebrity help the main protagonists in one story.  That celebrity’s actions were entirely consistent with how he would have behaved in real life under the same circumstances, and were entirely favorable without any potential slight.  That celebrity might be joined by one or two more under the exact same circumstances.  None of the “celebrities” know anything about the more “interesting” details of the protagonists’ lives. 
I’ve also named two different famous local politicians as “background” characters.  Their indirectly mentioned conduct is entirely consistent with the “non-criticized” portions of their publicly reported actions and behavior during the time-frames mentioned.  In the case of one of the politicians, I invented entirely fictitious additional members of their family who did not exist in real life.
I’ve also replaced scores of real-life people with entirely fictitious counterparts even when the behavior of the “replaced” persons appearing in my story were entirely honest, honorable, skillful, consistent with real-life, and beyond any reproach.  It’s just easier to do things that way then it is to try (and almost certainly fail) to describe an “almost famous” person I never met from forty years ago without getting sued.  I do “reference” the occasional real life villain here and there.  In those cases, their real-life villainy was well-known, as in front-page headlines, and followed up by felony convictions.  Any non-historical villainy they get up to is entirely consistent with their real-life behavior at the times and places where it takes place.
That will also hold true for my Harry Potter fanfiction.  Since I’m using a real time-frame for the stories, and since I’m using real-life locations, using historical people (gently) is nearly unavoidable, as well as using real-life positions filled with fictional replacements.
The most annoying “reference” I see in HP fanfiction, and I see it all the time, is using the first names of Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson as the first names for Hermione Granger’s parents.  JKR never even named those two characters, much less had them appear directly; so I get that you have to call them something.  But using the names of the actors who play Harry and Hermione in the movies to (not so subtly) claim that Harry and Hermione were only right to date or marry each other is just too heavy-handed for me.  Plenty of great fanfiction authors do this in great stories.  Plenty of not so great fanfiction authors do this, too.  In the case where I had to give the Grangers names, I used the first names of the actors who played them in the movies, and there were actors who played the Granger parents to a sufficient degree that they had to be named and credited.  Ian Kelly and Michelle Fairley played the Grangers in Deathly Hallows Part One.  Tom Knight and Heather Bleasdale from CoS would also work.
Cheers!