MiserablePileOfWords

Miserable Pile Of Words

@MiserablePileOfWords

What is a writer?
A miserable little pile of words!

Call me MP or Miz

Fiction attempted, with various levels of success.

Yes, I do need help, thank you for noticing.

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The good news is that I managed to finish a story.
The bad news is twofold.
First of all: it's not any of the big ones I promised you that I've been trying to finish.
Secondly: I managed to finish a story.

MiserablePileOfWords
@MiserablePileOfWords

The problem, again, with Cohost's fucking drafts is that, you know, if your fucking brain won't let you write and you're reduced to making stub/bookmark drafts for all the cool prompts that fire the imagination for months, editing one of the older ones in multiple passes becomes a real fucking pain in the ass when you need to go dig it up every single fucking time the list gets reset.

"Well then just don't reset the list" you say.
To which I reply "Are you new to cohost? You gotta save drafts excessively because you never know when the site will just fucking up and disappear into nothingness, and Every Time You Save, the list gets reset to head."

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melinoe
@melinoe

I suppose it depends on what platform you write in, but I mostly use a Google doc that I've set up to have the same formatting at a Chost (okay the margins are a tiny bit different).

Apologies if that's read. I do also initially write in Discord of all things and have my reasons.

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MiserablePileOfWords
@MiserablePileOfWords

So, let me tell you about my absolutely wild writing method.

So the main writing happens in a google doc. Except when it doesn't, and it's a random notepad++ snippet on A Machine, or just straight into a cohost draft. I don't pick, Broken Brain picks.

Anyway, assuming the google doc version, when it's "done" (ha ha, more on that later) and has gone through an edit or twenty, it is saved as html, and then I run it through my own sanitizer so I get something I can paste into the cohost editor, save as text file, transfer that to The Cohost Machine, which is not The Google Account Machine, and paste it into the cohost editor.

Then the 15 zillion extra reread and editing passes start, which happen in the notepad++ text file, which then gets pasted over whatever is in the cohost editor field — except when it's not and I'm editing straight in the cohost editor field because I'm on the move and a thought struck me I needed to add right there and then or lose forever, or whatever.

Anyway, this goes back and forth a couple of times, but the cohost draft editor field doesn't have the correct framing a normal timeline post has, so I have to save and preview in the drafts timeline from time to time as well.
Which is where the main problem comes in.
Also, sometimes I might need to actually leave my house and go somewhere, so the version in the drafts needs to match the text file, which I might not always have access to when needed (see above), so that's extra saves.

(Yes, I have Many Problem™. It Is Known.)

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melinoe
@melinoe

oh i definitely get you then <3

i am as bad in different ways. there's been a few moments ive fixed typos weeks after i posted something too. i always throw in a draft read-through on mobile bc the different format forces my brain to readjust.

also never, never can i wait to post. hence i keep posting into the 2am void.

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