One of my new favorite stories was one of Ganymede's. One called Worm-hole. It was a disaster when I found it, and took quite a bit of thinking on my part to properly edit it. I have something of a feel for editing that author. I might have a go at First Boy. I'll try a different part if no-one is offended.

Okay I finished First Boy 5.

Wasn't too hard. I just had to add in the paragraph breaks manually in OpenOffice.

The trick is to copy the source into an external word processor, and not flip back and forth between "Source" and normal mode in the online editor. If you flip back and forth before you have the HTML fixed, you create far too much work for yourself.

Here's the order you work in.

1) Open the story in the editor.

2) Click "Source"

3) Copy the source HTML of the story into an external document editor like OpenOffice.

4) Remove all extraneous HTML code. (basically anything except <p> and </p>)

5) At all breaks in paragraphs, if it isn't already there, add <p> (better to copy <p> to the clipboard, click where paragraphs end, and hit Ctrl + V... Very Fast)

6) Copy the text from the external word processor back into the online editor. (Make sure to get rid of the text already there BEFORE you paste the corrected version.)

7) Click source and look at your repaired product.

8) Make final adjustments, spell-check, and submit.

Cainanite (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:10 pm Hey curious_guy.

It is coming. Sooner or later it will happen. Tal is working on a lot of stuff right now. When it is finished, the EA will have one of the finest story sites on the internet.

Right now the focus has been on getting the stories back, and formatted for the new site. We should all be happy that the stories are back whatever form they appear in right now.

We're all working feverishly to get the stories back on line. Please be patient with us. There are a HUGE amount of stories, and it takes a HUGE amount of time. I've been editing stories since I got up today, and I've only got through about 40 or so. There is something like 10,000 to complete.

It may actually take a year before the new site is fully operational. I for one, can wait. Believe me, it is going to be worth it.

Is the current plan to delay the author index until all the stories are back up?

Talula is writing an indexing system now, when he has the time. When it will get done and be online is up to him.

You know, this makes me think of an alcoholic whining about not having champagne when there's a perfectly good case of beer sitting right next to him.

Thank you! You brought back a interesting part of EA