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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Fan Fiction & Poetry => Topic started by: RouxB on January 11, 2007, 06:43:58 pm
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Hoping not to step on any toes legally or emotionally, can we put together a share list of who has what saved as a Word document for those of us who want to print and bind? Just indicate what you have and if you would be willing to forward it to those who request via PM.
I'll list what I have and what I want when I get home-unless someone has a reason we shouldn't do this.
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God! Would somebody popular please go first?
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Hoping not to step on any toes legally or emotionally
This is a great idea, but wouldn't it be courtesy, even though it's probably not illegal, to know if the author first approves of this being done before posting such details publically online?
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Richard, RouxB, et al.,
I think it would be good, if possible, to get the author's consent, or at least assent. I know that as an author, I would like to know where my story is being disseminated. But that's me, not all authors might feel the same way or care as much.
That said, I have a word file that is all formatted for printing (page numbers, a table of contents, etc) plus a cover of A Love Born From Steel. I had copies bound that I shared with friends at the Boston Brokie Get Together (so Roux, you already have a copy. Maybe you can vouch for the formatting!). If anyone would like the files, please send me a PM with your email and I will get the files off to you.
Leslie
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no_reins posted his stories "Riding Fence" and "An Uneventful Life" on LiveJournal as PDFs so you can download the entire story in seconds and it's already formatted. It's GREAT. I wish more authors would do that. It's so tedious to copy and paste, especially a long story.
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That sounds like a good idea, Leslie/cc33. I'd like to do that with mine if it makes things easier for folks. How do you do it though? How do you upload the file?
I can be of no help with the saved files, as I have several chapters of various fics that I started to copy and paste, but got bored with part way through.
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It's a pdf-zip file that is posted online. You'd need to have the software to convert documents to pdfs. Then the file is compressed and posted.
I'm the same way, Helen. I start out saving the stories and then the story gets too long to keep copying and pasting or else I just read the story and not save it.
Leslie
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The only stories I've managed to save are Somebody New/FON and the second half of del Mar Painting because I told mel I'd send it to her.... but generally I'm the same way, I get bored copy/pasting chapters and give up. I think maybe I have Green Eyes somewhere from way back in the day...
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The only stories I've managed to save are Somebody New/FON and the second half of del Mar Painting because I told mel I'd send it to her.... but generally I'm the same way, I get bored copy/pasting chapters and give up. I think maybe I have Green Eyes somewhere from way back in the day...
Hi Mandy, well late is better than never I guess.... I already know from Neuonitz that she would rather have control over her story Green Eyes, and does not want me to pass it around..... for what it's worth.
Jane
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Hi Mandy, well late is better than never I guess.... I already know from Neuonitz that she would rather have control over her story Green Eyes, and does not want me to pass it around..... for what it's worth.
Jane
Thanks for letting me know! I haven't sent it to anyone, I figured that might have been an issue because of the way she took it off her journal for a long time.... but it's nice to know for sure :-*
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Speaking only for myself here, but I have no problem with anyone printing my works and passing them around. Feel free to do so. To me, it’s the way it should be—after all, that’s how slash originally started, storied passed around.