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Noob mistake in writing

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Okay, I just made a newbie mistake in writing something, and all I can say is it is because it is almost five in the morning and I have been up all night.

So, what did I do? In writing first person narrative I was so fussy in making sure I stayed in first person (which I HATE to write) that I missed a small action that was GLARING as soon as I hit send and could no longer fix it.

The problem… well… I was adding to a write along story over at Writing.com and added a sequence where a character is reacting to another one and I typed…

(drumroll please)

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“I know it sounds dumb, Jake,” Max’s eyes roll toward the ceiling, “but you’re two inches tall. How do you explain it?”
…………………….

Yes, that character’s eyes just popped out of his head and rolled through the air toward the ceiling. Or at least that is how it reads. ::pounding head on desk:: Why, oh why, do I only see things like that when I can no longer fix the error of my tiredness?

I think I best go sleep now. You can read the whole scene I wrote, or better yet, read and add to the entire interactive story at Writing.com yourself.

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How to Submit a Story

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Submitting a story to Phantascene is easy.

Once you have joined the site, go to your member account page and select Add New Story.

Enter the title for your story.

If you have collaborated with someone else, and you are both members of Phantascene, then you can credit them as a co-author of the story.

Enter a brief summary of what your story is about and add optional story notes. Then select the most appropriate category for your story to be displayed in. Select your story’s rating and rather it is a complete story or will be left open as a round robin story.

If it has multiple chapters select a name for the chapter you are publishing, and any notes about the chapter.

Either you can enter the story text in the provided box, or upload your text from your computer.

Finally you want to add any end notes that you might have about the story and preview it.

Done, you should now be able to publish your story to the site. If it does not show up for a little while do not be concerned, it sometimes takes me a day or two to get back to the site to approve any new stories.

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Working on fixing story display

Friday, February 5th, 2010

I am trying to fix how the stories are displayed, since there is something about how it is displaying that makes it difficult to read. I hope to have this cleared up soon, but not sure how to make it so the first paragraph does not show up beside the header information.

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What is this place?

Monday, February 1st, 2010

This site has gone through a lot, but it is back now, and I hope that others will agree that the wait for its evolution was worthwhile.

So, what have we got now? A playground. This is a new experience for me, but I hope that it will turn out to be a fun experiment in online writing.

I owe a huge thank you to the world of Fandoms in the creation of this site, since the software I am using on the main site was developed by the lovely writers of fan fiction for the purpose of archiving their works. The software was released as Open Source programming and I have re-purposed it to be suited to the publication of original works of both fiction and non-fiction writing.

All work submitted to this site is assumed to belong to the creator, who is presumed to be the person who submitted the work to this site.

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Delayed Site Relaunch

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I really had intended to get this site finished and back live, but things just kind of went downhill and got sidetracked and I have had no time to work on the site in weeks.

I suppose it works out, since I found a few bugs when I posted a test short story a few days ago. Primary bug having been that I had listed some ratings in the ratings system, and ended up with everything falling into the warning categories. Ooops. I’m working on a rating system now to fix that SNAFU and going to do just a bit more tweaking, then I should be able to unveil this sucker.

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