How I Put A Story Together

[anonymouse]

I just typed out my whole "How I put a story together" post and it got eaten by the evil server monster! And since all I have right now are bad words, I'll have to come back and redo later.

2nd damn time today.

Sometimes, my 'quick replies' turn into much lengthier essays. When this happens I usually copy the post to the clipboard just before posting to avoid possible problems.

If it's a really long post, I'll copy/past into word at some stage during writing it. Something to remember about MS Word is it doesn't always paste neatly back into message windows. In order to avoid word-wrap issues, save the MS Word document as plain text, open in Notepad, turn off 'word wrap', then copy/past back into the message window. It seems a terribly convoluted way of doing things but, it's Microsoft and 'life wasn't meant to be easy'. hehe

anonymouse

PS: If just copying to the clipboard BE VERY CAREFUL if you're using the shortcut keys that you click 'C' for copy and not 'V' for paste! There's nothing more annoying than accidentally erasing a post at this stage!