Zanski: Blog

I am ducking out of email replies for the moment and returning to the truly joyous work of formatting detail. I won't go into how bass-ackwards I've been approaching all this posting business, but what I thought was a time-saving approach has been quite the opposite. Now I must turn a clean txt file back into a clean odt file. I am thankful for all the advice and guidance which has made these processes more understandable to me. Whoever said you can't teach an old dog new tricks without a rolled-up newspapaper and lots of shouting was right.

I might also note that I have deleted two somewhat rancorous blog posts that suggested SOL was somehow responsible for my own failure to grasp the processes that are explained in detail on the author's pages. While I do fall back on my unfamiliarity with much of the jargon, my vitriol was uncalled-for. Mea culpa.

Betwen the coaching from Lazeeze and the advice of many others, I think I'm getting a handle on this. I've learned that stories can be submitted in multipke formats, not just the preferred text files, and I've received numerous tips and tricks from readers and other authors. NUMEROUS.

And while I still can't explain the odd Ös and other doodads, I do plan to try to clean up and repair the paragraph breaks on Back Trail after False Trail is posted. False Trail is ready to go as a txt file (at least as ready as I know how to make it), but Lazeeze is in correspondence with me and I asked his advice on a process that may affect my choice of file type. Even so, the txt file I have looks neat and clean to me, so I may just push the button. But not yet.