Intro!

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

 Hi everyone, I'm Molly.  I have lurked in this community for a while since I found it again after a couple of years. I was happy to see many of the same authors. I am not sure I ever posted before, but I went by HollywoodIdol if I did.  
While I love to read, I hardly ever write anything that gets posted anywhere. (I wrote a Greg/Jen fic years ago that was put up on fanfiction.net) That may change soon, though. Reading the stories here has me inspired. Other things I love include making art, writing poetry, letting my short attention span run wild, and making others laugh. Whose Line has been a part of my life from day one of its show and I still DVR old reruns on ABC Family to watch and re-watch.  That show got me through the depression that was High School, and still makes me glow inside today. 

Along with my intro, I come bearing much praise to some of the authors here! Stories I have very much enjoyed are (recently): Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Business and Pleasure, and from a while back, My Salad Days (where can I find more of that one??)  Others I liked were Nocturne, Rose Colored Glasses, Psychosocial, and LuvStories' Comic Strip.  And I have read most of the stories from Claydevil's archive with R/C, R/G, R/C/G, G/J pairings. My kudos to you all for your most excellent writing!  I look forward to reading more!

Thanks for reading, 
Molly Sheldon
 

Comments

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Welcome! Or, welcome back :) Always great to see new/returning faces. I hope you'll jump in and start writing. And (*blushes*) thank you for your praise of Nocturne. That story means the world to me, so I'm flattered when someone enjoys it :) And I'd love to read that Greg/Jen fic sometime... *nudge*

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! And I just went to fanfiction.net and searched for my long lost story, it does not seem to be there. It was probably horrible anyway! I remember it was Jen's POV, to the song Thank You by Dido.

To PD and Capt, Hi! I really enjoy reading your stories, as I said before. Thank you guys for the warm welcome. I am excited to be a part of such a friendly family. =D

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think fanfiction.net bans RPF now :P I never posted anything there but used to read a lot. You'll just have to write a whole new story then, won't you? *eyes you meaningfully* ;)

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

haha Well you must have inspired me when you sent me looking for that fic. I started working on something last night and might be posting it soon....

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Okay, who would like to teach me about fic tags and such? What is a *must list* for my fic- pairing, rating, disclaimer, anything else? I also have no idea what to rate what I just wrote. ha. I would like to post it soon, nervous yet excited. Someone please clue me in... =^..^=

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a new story! Woot! You definitely want to include a header before your cut that has the title, author, pairing(s) or main characters, rating, and also a brief summary. Just a sentence or two is fine. As for ratings, I generally say NC-17 for explicit sex, R for vague-er sex and/or violence, PG-13 for language you wouldn't use in front of your granny, PG for less coarse language/adult situations, and G for happy fuzzy bunnies and nothing naughty. Most people on the comm are pretty liberal about their smut, so you don't have to worry too much if your rating is a bit off. If you're nervous, err on the side of a stronger rating.

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've read enough fics here to think I have the hang of the drill, but I wanted to make sure. Nervous about posting my first fic!

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

No need to be nervous :) I can't wait to read it!

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Help! I'm having issues posting! It wont let me paste it into the Rich Text, so I did HTML, but I cant use the easy Cut... so it messes up the formatting when I try. =( What do I do?

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Does it give you any kind of error message when you try to paste into rich text? Sometimes, depending on what computer I'm using, I get a yellow bar at the top of the screen that tells me to click if I want to allow "active x controls" (or something like that).

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

The Rich Text option isn't even there anymore. Earlier when it was doing it, I would click paste and the text would flash, but not paste.

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Will it let you paste using ctrl-V?

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

And, is it a really long entry?

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I dont think it's that long. Depends on what LJ thinks... Dont know how many words. I restarted my Mac and tried again. My Rich Text button is gone and I don't know where it went. The default is now HTML. I can paste within that, but have no idea how to make it under a cut. RT had the button.. it was my fwiend.

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

I can't find anything in the LJ FAQ section that sounds like the problem you're having. If it's still not working, you might try sending a question to support:

http://www.livejournal.com/support/submit.bml

sorry I couldn't help you more! :(

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

It looks like I set it to HTML and just can't get Rich Text back. No earthly idea how I did that.

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I can't figure it out :( I would try the LJ support link...

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

I think you can do a cut in html by using [Unknown site tag] and

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

lol, or apparently not...

(trying one more time...)

and

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

argh. nope.

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'll check the link Clay gave me earlier for cuts and such. I'm just horrible at HTML though. Gah, who told the button to take a vacation!

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I submitted a report. Manual cutting is not working. arg arg arg

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I think it worked!!! Go see!