A poem or a nice piece of fanart could be a nice substitution. Althrough it´s an unpleasant situation. But you did all you could, Schmiezi and you should not be too sad, you did splendid work with a Secret Santa anyway. I think the authors who could not make it this year shouldn´t be afraid too and contact you. We are all adults here, it should be normal to explain why they can´t hand you a fic. Why all this hiding? No one bites here....

I also would like to thank Schmiezi for all the work and love she put into this. I hope she will continue to do so next year and will give her all the help needed to make it a completely pleasant experience for all participants. 

SusiGo wrote:

I also would like to thank Schmiezi for all the work and love she put into this. I hope she will continue to do so next year and will give her all the help needed to make it a completely pleasant experience for all participants. 

I´ll second that. Thank you, Schmiezi!
 

SusiGo wrote:

I also would like to thank Schmiezi for all the work and love she put into this. I hope she will continue to do so next year and will give her all the help needed to make it a completely pleasant experience for all participants. 

I couldn't agree more!
Thank you, Schmiezi!

silverblaze wrote:

Found it!

For anyone who's new: you can't just copy paste your word file (or pages or whatever you're using) onto the forum, it needs to be converted to bbcode, which is a form of shortened html. Otherwise, your formatting goes to the dogs; you'll have no line breaks, no bold and italics etcetera. Basically, it'll be unreadable. So last year, we had these converters. 

This is the technical thread with a few options: http://sherlock.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=5799

This is the two step method, I used eventually, thanks to Susi: 

What you do is, after you've finished writing your story (or while you're writing it) you make sure that you write all your bold, italics and underlined text with the html commands. Those commands can be found here.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp

Then you can convert to html here: 
http://document.online-convert.com/convert-to-html

You save the html file and now you can convert it to bbcode with this converter: 
http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/html2bbcode/
Note: do NOT use the source code to paste into the converter, you need the normal text from the html file. 

The bbcode cannot be saved, it's the html that you need to send to Schmiezi, however, you need to convert to bbcode in order to check whether it works on the forum. This can be done as follows: 

Start a new topic, create a title, and check your text with the preview function so no one can see what you're doing. 

When everything looks as it should, you can send your html file to Schmiezi so she can copy paste it into the converter without having to do any editing herself. 
 

This is the post I was speaking about.
 

nakahara wrote:

RavenMorganLeigh wrote:

My fic is DONE!! And I can't seem to convert it to HTML. HELLLLLLP!!!

On the first page of this thread, silverblaze posted a post containing a very handy HTML converter. Just look it up and you have it converted in a whiff.
 

I tried using it, and it didn't work. :-( 

Sigh. 

RavenMorganLeigh wrote:

What I have is an Open Office Doc-- I don't understand HTML at all. I'll give it a shot, but--- hoo-boy. 

Harriet is our technical wizard here. Maybe she could help you, if you ask her via PM?
 

Hm, what exactly didn't work, Raven? Try to describe, maybe we get an idea then?

RavenMorganLeigh wrote:

SusiGo wrote:

Raven, if you paste the text in BBC Code in here, you will see no changes. Click on "preview", then you should get the text the way it will be published and you can check if everything is correct. I struggled myself as well but in the end it worked that way. 

Do you mean just past the doc into the forum? I am sorry--- this is really not my strong suit. 

No. I'll try to explain:
1) First you have to sign all the words or lines that you would like to have in italics or bold according to the examples in Silverblaze's first link.
2) You safe your document in a folder.
3) You go the the HTML-Converter, that is Silver's second link. There you hit the button to search your office-document in the folder and click on "convert to HTML". That you have to safe as well and that is the format you have to send to Schmiezi.
3) To have a check if everything will be written according to your wishes you hit the third one of Silvers links. Copy your HTML-doc, which you have safed before, and transfer it into the blank box, hit the button "Convert HTML to BBC". You won't see any alterations now nor are you able to safe this one.
4) BUT you can copy it, open a new topic here in all secrecy, hit the button "Preview", have a check if it works out fine and delete it again.

 

Gonna go try again. At some point, I have to go to bed-- gotta go to work!