The 2023 Geek Pride Story Event: Official Support Page

[MediocreAuthor]

I can't even get small caps to go through. How do you indicate the word of death without small caps?

That's the first piece of clear evidence I've heard to suggest that this will fail. Oof... My confidence is dwindling now.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

I can't even get small caps to go through. How do you indicate the word of death without small caps?

Damn it... the small caps DOES go through the preview stage. But you've tried it, and it gets rejected upon publishing?

How does that work? Does the story get kicked back? Or does it just post as normal text?

 

[Duleigh]

Damn it... the small caps DOES go through the preview stage. But you've tried it, and it gets rejected upon publishing?

How does that work? Does the story get kicked back? Or does it just post as normal text?

Knowing that I was going to have to quote Death in an upcoming Discworld homage I submitted a story with an afterword and the title of the afterword was formatted in small caps like The Voice of Death. I submitted the .doc file and the formatted text came out normal

If you want to see what the website will use, open word, click on insert, click on symbol, in the dropdown click on more symbols and the symbol dialog box comes up. Insure that the Font dropdown is set to (normal text) and almost everything that is shown in that grid will show on the website. Fractions don't work, nor do subscript and superscript figures. I haven't tried to slip in a copyright symbol yet, I'll try to slip one in the afternote on my Geek Pride story. ©

 

[MediocreAuthor]

If you want to see what the website will use, open word, click on insert, click on symbol, in the dropdown click on more symbols and the symbol dialog box comes up. Insure that the Font dropdown is set to (normal text) and almost everything that is shown in that grid will show on the website. Fractions don't work, nor do subscript and superscript figures. I haven't tried to slip in a copyright symbol yet, I'll try to slip one in the afternote on my Geek Pride story. ©

I'll have to try that as soon as s I get back to my PC.

But for my test, I didn't use a .doc file.

I copy/paste the words into the [Story Text]* field, complete with traditional < i > < /i > formatting

This is what it looks like on the preview page:

 

[NoTalentHack]

Wasn’t convinced by the last of the Three Colors Cornetto movies, can’t recall it’s name even. The one with Bilbo Baggins in it.

Em

The last one hit much differently for me, at my age, than it did for my younger friends. Hot Fuzz is still my favorite, because I grew up on those cop shows and action movies, but I understood a lot of the sort of middle-aged ennui (and the poking fun at it) that went into Workd’s End.

Spaced is still my favorite thing that crew did, though. My wife and I still reference it 20-odd years later.

 

[NoTalentHack]

More on-topic, my story is finished, although I’m still tweaking it word choice. I had planned to go a little longer, because I really loved the characters, but an ending stuck in my head that was perfect. It’s about 7K.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I haven't tried to slip in a copyright symbol yet, I'll try to slip one in the afternote on my Geek Pride story. ©

© works. I have a copyright line at the end of every story.

 

[Duleigh]

I'll have to try that as soon as s I get back to my PC.

But for my test, I didn't use a .doc file.

I copy/paste the words into the [Story Text]* field, complete with traditional < i > < /i > formatting

This is what it looks like on the preview page:

How do you get the scattered text with an italics tag

 

[Duleigh]

© works. I have a copyright line at the end of every story.

Cool! Who did you register your copyright with? In the US it costs $30 with the United States Copyright Office.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Spaced is still my favorite thing that crew did, though. My wife and I still reference it 20-odd years later.

My friends in London who introduced me to Spaced (and H2G2 and Red Dwarf and Father Ted and other stuff) thought I wouldn’t get bits of it without explanation, but I thought it was great. Maybe 1% went over my head.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

The last one hit much differently for me, at my age, than it did for my younger friends. Hot Fuzz is still my favorite, because I grew up on those cop shows and action movies, but I understood a lot of the sort of middle-aged ennui (and the poking fun at it) that went into Workd’s End.

It was the American references in HF I didn’t get, not the British ones. As has been explained to me above, I have seen none of the cop / action movies it references.

Em

 

[MediocreAuthor]

How do you get the scattered text with an italics tag

Oh I didn't mean that. I'm saying that I formatted it manually, and I was using italics as an example.

In order to get the scattered text, I used a website which adds diacritics to letters (like ñ ó å etc) except it adds a lot more than normal.

 

[Duleigh]

Still trying to get there on time, just hit 13k words and that's looking like the halfway point

 

[gunhilltrain]

Still trying to get there on time, just hit 13k words and that's looking like the halfway point

Wow, people write some very long stories on here. But then merely being "geek" implies a lot of details.

I reined myself in a bit by having some "Geek Notes" at the end of the story. It's bits of info or explanations I found during research, but didn't seem essential for the story. Yet I wanted to present them anyway. Readers can choose to skip it if they wish.

 

[gunhilltrain]

It was the American references in HF I didn’t get, not the British ones. As has been explained to me above, I have seen none of the cop / action movies it references.

Em

Well, I have seen some movies that were made before I was born. Still haven't seen The Maltese Falcon yet. YouTube has a random collection of old movies available, often for free. That's how I saw A Night to Remember, which came out when I was three-years-old, so I guess that counts. One version has a commentary track by two Titanic experts, who explain a lot of both the event and the making of the movie. Far superior to James Cameron's magnum opus.

 

[gunhilltrain]

More on-topic, my story is finished, although I’m still tweaking it word choice. I had planned to go a little longer, because I really loved the characters, but an ending stuck in my head that was perfect. It’s about 7K.

You can always write a sequel, assuming you have enough material to make a story out of it. I've got one or two I am considering.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Well, I have seen some movies that were made before I was born. Still haven't seen The Maltese Falcon yet. YouTube has a random collection of old movies available, often for free. That's how I saw A Night to Remember, which came out when I was three-years-old, so I guess that counts. One version has a commentary track by two Titanic experts, who explain a lot of both the event and the making of the movie. Far superior to James Cameron's magnum opus.

I have seen lots and lots of movies that were made before I was born. Just not cop ones. This is not complicated. They are not my thing. I wouldn’t seek out old cop movies.

Kurosawa, yes. Cop movies, no.

Em

 

[gunhilltrain]

I have seen lots and lots of movies that were made before I was born. Just not cop ones. This is not complicated. They are not my thing. I wouldn’t seek out old cop movies.

Kurosawa, yes. Cop movies, no.

Em

That reminds me, I wonder what the first-ever Crime and Punishment story event is going to come up with. Yes, one could use the Non-erotic category, but I don't think that was what was intended.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Loqui and I are about 11k words into our second Red Tsonia sword'n'sandal collab. It will be a very close finish this year, between me having been horribly sick and our apartment torn to shreds by another case of disintegrated plumbing. Still, we're fighting on! "Red Tsonia and the Jungles Of Madness", another episode in the (hopefully) long and illustrous career of a barbarian warrior. Standalone, purposefully written to be either a prequel or a sequel to last year's "... Witch In The Dark." Once again, we're going full Howard on it and despite the difficulty in creating it, I'm grinning like an idiot. It's just that much fun.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Got a big chunk of mine done. Just trying to decide how long to make it so it works as a story, rather than just a bunch of things happening. I mean, boardgame geeks having fun gaming could go on for ever...

I've started a story for the Crime & Punishment event, about the moves to create legislation against 'violent porn' ending up in court.

I enjoyed Hot Fuzz knowing that it's playing with lots of tropes from cop shows and movies, even without having seen half the films and having forgotten much of the other half.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I enjoyed Hot Fuzz knowing that it's playing with lots of tropes from cop shows and movies, even without having seen half the films and having forgotten much of the other half.

Though I’ve belted you and flayed you,
By the livin’ Gawd that made you,
You’re a better girl than I am Kumquatqueen.

Em

 

[MisterWildCard]

A GAMER-GIRL'S ESCAPE has been submitted for publication! I'm pretty happy with how it turned out (thanks for the beta-read, Rusty! I incorporated your fix suggestions), and I'd like to think that people will enjoy this.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I’m at 10k words. The bad news is I think I need at least another 10k. The good news is I have got moving on the plot again.

Em

 

[Duleigh]

One more month to go... I'll make it. Hell, I did 2 25k stories last year... maybe I'll try for one 50k this year.

 

[RetroFan]

Would characters who like creating fantasy worlds rather than established science fiction and superhero works qualify as Geeks?

My idea was a story set in the early 1990s about an overweight, naive 18-year-old girl who along with her gay male best friend love working on their own fantasy adventure stories, only for her focus to change when she meets the pretty daughter of her mother's new boyfriend and has these new feelings she hasn't had before ...