I am so annoyed/embarrassed. When I uploaded “Guardians of the Earth and the Moon” to PGSM Fanfiction, I had to use the text box instead of uploading the document since I didn’t have MS Word on my old computer. The formatting all disappeared so I fixed it manually, and then like a year later I went back and saw that all the sentences I’d italicized had appeared TWICE, once in italics and once in regular formatting. I was totally mortified so I went through and fixed it, quadruple checked it, and called it a day.

Well now I’m getting ready to add a new chapter so I go back and re-read the old chapters, and what do I find? Some of the doubles are back, AND on top of it, in places where I’d fixed the italics problem, there are whole paragraphs missing!! I am so incredibly embarrassed!!! How can anyone read it?? I have so many positive reviews for the story on that site, and I’m like, “HOW?? HOW COULD YOU HAVE ENJOYED IT?? IT’S DROWNING IN TYPOS!! IT’S F–KING DISTRACTING (OH, GOOD)!”

I haaaaaate reading fanfics that are filled with typos/missing sentences/double sentences. If it’s just typos, but the rest of the writing is good, then I don’t mind. But this is downright terrible. I’m so frustrated. Every time I think I have it fixed, Haha think again!!

Now that I have MS Word, I think I am going to re-upload the chapters which should take care of the formatting problems. The only issue with that, though, is that I’m not sure if the version (of the fic) I have saved on my harddrive is the same as the one on Fanfiction.net, and whether either is the same as the one on PGSM Fanfiction. (I don’t think there will be major differences [at least, I hope not], but there may be typos I fixed on one version that I missed on another).

EDIT: Haha, just kidding, it doesn’t take .doc files, only plain text and (certain) HTML files. That doesn’t really work for me since I use a lot of formatting in my stories and it will detract from the story if it’s lost. And the online text editor is no longer on the site, with only an HTML box in its place. Dammit, it looks like I’m going to have to hard code all the new chapters from now on.

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Guardians of the Earth and the Moon is just a giant soap opera where everyone’s lusting after each other and very few people are winding up happy. I’d apologize, but I’M NOT SORRY! Mwaahahahahhahaaaaaa. I very rarely write unrequited love stories, so this is pretty fun for me. Plus, I see it as entirely necessary to get us to the point we need to be, namely everyone dying in a fiery explosion.

So, what’s the point of this post? Guardians of the Earth and the Moon chapter 5 is up.
Fanfiction.net Version | PGSM-Fanfiction Version

It’s 17 pages. SEVENTEEN PAGES!!! I’m a crazy woman. But I feel awesome. Recently I have been crazy-enthusiastic about PGSM, NephAmi, and this fic. And the romance parts didn’t make me squirm this time. WHOO.

CHAPTER 4 IS DONE

FANFICTION.NET
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3130921/5/Guardians_of_the_Earth_and_the_Moon

PGSM-FANFICTION
http://fanfiction.kirari-pgsm.net/viewstory.php?sid=178&chapter=5

THX TO EVERYONE WHO SAT THROUGH MY EMBARRASSED RANTS THE LAST 2 DAYS. The story gets more plot-heavy from here, so I shouldn’t be making any more mortified rants…

And I actually only wrote up to partially through Ch. 6, so the rest will be new stuff based on my outlines and thus I can make it less embarrassing. Good.

…I’m trying to type a Zoisite and Minako scene right now. Allow me to show you, with illustrations from Love*Com, what I have spent the last five minutes doing every time I read the next line I’m supposed to type:

Okay…it’s not that bad…but I can’t write it…urgh…

It says…”His chest clenched and he felt himself nearly overwhelmed with desire seeing her sitting there like that.”

THERE I TYPED IT FORGIVE ME FATHER FOR I HAVE SINNED

*dies*

I need to get over this complex.

OMFG HOW COULD I HAVE WRITTEN SO MUCH? I’VE TYPED SIX PAGES AND I’M ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH THE CHAPTER. WTFFFFFF

2004 LISA, WHO ARE YOU? HOW DO I GET YOUR AMBITION BACK?

TYPOS!!!

Nothing chagrins me more than reading a fanfic that has been published for like 3 years and realizing that I left TYPOS in it!!!!!!!!!! How did people read it all these years and know what I was talking about?!

“I’m sure you’ll get over that once you’ve gotten to know that THEM like I’ve gotten to know Serenity”

“Nephrite had only the highest respect for the Master, as did all the Shitennou; this wasn’t WAS why he was so deeply shocked by Endymion’s reckless behavior in dealing with the Moon Kingdom.” WAS! WAS! Of course it WAS, the sentence doesn’t make sense otherwise! Where was my proofreader?? (n/a, that’s where)

FML.

YES, I am updating Guardians of the Earth and the Moon…TODAY. Chapter 3 will be up by tonight. You have my word.

EDIT: WHY DIDN’T ANYONE EVER TELL ME THAT THE VERSION ON PGSM-FANFICTION.NET IS SO BAWLED UP?? AND WHY DIDN’T I EVER READ IT MYSELF?

NO ONE READ IT THERE. EVERYONE READ IT AT FANFICTION.NET DX