Fic formatting

[missdeanna]

Okay, so I know a lot of you guys post fic. How do you format them, in terms of making sure they show up correctly on LJ? In particular, how do you format your paragraphs? And if you write in Word, what steps do you take to make everything compatible? (I've turned off smart quotes

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[xtricks]

Hm. I've actually stopped writing in word type documents and gone back to textpad types -- word puts all sorts of invisible crap in it's documents that make it a pain to post, sometimes.

One way to minimize that is to save everything as RTF, not .doc. That removes some of the junk.

I also hand code my italics as I go, get rid of smart quotes and, when I post to LJ, I don't use the Rich Text interface (it's universally problematic).

Hope that helps!

[missdeanna]

Thanks for the tips. I actually used to use wordpad and save as an RTF when I was writing a web page and had to do coding. I hadn't thought of trying it with my fic.

I already code my italics as I go, as well as formatting my scene breaks and whatnot. I've been having some trouble getting paragraphs to show up like I want them to, though, even in HTML mode.