March 2021 - Day 1

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

FYI: I'll put up the daily posts between 6 and 8pm, CET, each day. The exact posting time might vary due to RL issues. My apologies.

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[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Thank you for driving the bus! With everything you've got going on, my hat's off to you for taking this on! Deeply grateful to you!

Day 1:
I worked on my Easter story for an hour. Transcribed some notes and some html I had experimented with on AO3 to embed a link to a surprise mini-story within an image.
Then I went to check on my recipient's request on MFUWSS, to see if she wanted something fluffy or angsty, because my drafty notes for three scenes are a hodge-podge, and I thought I'd better look before I leaped into angst if she wants fluff...

And I was shocked to find a Weekly Reader had posted to MFUWSS this morning! I have been ill, and haven't done the Weekly Reader yet!!
So I got sidetracked on what had happened. In the end, I decided I had to have made an error on the scheduled entry date.

And now I am grouchy and am going for a walk.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

What is the MFUWSS?

I always cheat with AO3: I post my stuff to LJ first, with links and images and whatnot, then copy and paste everything to AO3. That way I have everything ready-made.

As Murphy's Law says: Do you have a difficult task? Assign it to a lazy person. They'll find the simplest solution. *g*

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Just in case akane42me doesn't have time to check back (I'm only back because I can't sleep), mfuwss is a Man from U.N.C.L.E. community — its named is inspired by an ep — mfu = Man from U.N.C.L.E. + wss = writers' survival school.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the explanation of MFUWSS:) Greatly appreciated!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I just got done with dinner clean-up — and I see fiorenza_a has answered your query about MFUWSS.
This is one of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. communities, and it originated as a comm for sharing writing Man from U.N.C.L.E. fanfic, and sharing ideas about the writing craft.

This is the comm that hosts an annual story challenge for Easter — the Easter Eggs you may hear mentioned during pico from the MFU writers. The stories are supposed to be around 500 words but can be any length, if the writer is inspired to write a longer one!
People request Eggs (stories), and provide a few prompts. Then writers anonymously claim them, and then post them around Easter.

As for the Weekly Reader I talked about: Each week on MFUWSS I make a list of links to mfu stories that were recommended daily on mfu_shortstorie and on another comm, section7mfu, where on Saturdays, writers rec their own work or that of other authors.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

I love mfuwss Easter Eggs — it's such a nice idea. Fandom is all about sharing, and I notice at least one 'anonymous' this year has offered to do fanart instead.

Really looking forward to seeing all the Easter Eggs pop up 😊

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

It looks like a pretty decent turnout. Yup, it's a great tradition!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I love your solution to AO3 — of posting to LJ first. The editor on AO3 is much harder to work with! I did it backwards... my AO3 draft is going to be automatically deleted on March 23, and I was fretting about losing my work, and copied it to my LJ and set its security to private, as a back-up! *smacks forehead* I should have thought of that! Why did I plunge directly to AO3? It's too early to post even a draft there for the Easter Egg exchange.. I have been suffering a good deal of fatigue and foggy brain since last week, and I suspect that may be why.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Yes, I keep a back up of my work as AO3 suggest, and after losing a carefully honed draft because the month clicked over when I was distracted by RL — I now keep a back up of my html coding on a word doc until I've posted as well.

That's one of the reasons the story I keep meaning to move to AO3 from FF.net has been stuck for so long, it's got eleven chapters, and I keep getting so far and then losing my draft. Determined to get it done this time though. Then I can stop worrying about it.

I've not been feeling too good recently either. Hope we both come out of this Pico feeling a bit more 'with it' 😚

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Get better, soon!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Good luck with moving the story from ff.net to a03. Sounds like quite the unwieldy project. So yeah, it will be nice to have that done.

Hope you're feeling better. I think my illness was after-effect of my second Covid vaccination. It was worse than after the first dose, when I pretty much slept for 2 days. This time I just plain felt achy, head-aches, unable to think, and constant fatigue. Today I'm back to feeling peppy. Whew.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Good 😊

I'll bear it in mind for when I get my jab, though. Just as well to be prepared.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a sensible way of doing it. I have put off posting anything there (HASA posted what is there of mine) — but if it is possible to simply copy and paste either the LJ version or the ones at Twisting the Hellmouth I might think of it as part of my personal challenge for this month.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

It works well. I've done it in the past with good results, just sometimes the line spacing has to be tweaked.
Good luck with it if you give it a try.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I hope the grouchies go away?

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

LOL thank you:) Yup. Grouchies all gone!