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Rather than packing as soon as I got up this morning (which I really should have been doing), I finished making some corrections on Neither the Laurel Nor the Rose Part 1 so I can send it back to the Archive That Will Remain Nameless. Then I thought I'd get a head start on fixing up Part 2 by looking for the easily findable errors that I'd made in the first part.
You know, forgetting that first space before an ellipse (which I suck at) or that really wonky thing my first part had that involved my quotation marks appearing three different ways for some reason. I fixed all of those in Part 2--and double checked the other two fics sitting in my "Submit Eventually" pile. Then I decided to go through and try to double check my canon spellings because I tend to double check those things on the HP Lexicon or the Potter Wiki. The Lexi is riddled with errors and the Wiki seems to just copy and paste most of its info directly from the Lexi.
So, I did some digging around in the submission rules at Ashwinder and the Other Archive, only to discover that most of the Potter word resources listed have disappeared. And a good chunk of the ones that are left have not been updated to reflect the new canon. Ashwinder's list has nothing from book seven, for example.
I fully understand that compiling a word list--even from just one book--is a giant pain in the rear, and I for one do not have the time to devote to something like that (right now, although that is just the sort of thing I live for normally), so I can understand why it hasn't been done. But it does make things much more difficult.
I'm hoping looking things up will become much easier once Pottermore opens its store and the "official" e-books are released for purchase. I'm completely tech stupid regarding e-readers, but surely there is a search function on one of them? Of course, then you run into the issue where e-books are traditionally riddled with typos and errors--which I just do not understand. In this day and age, how difficult is it to just use the same file that someone has proofed for the printed book and copy it over for the e-book? It's not as if someone has to type each word in from a hardbound copy into a brand new file. And even if they did, hire a competent typist and stop being so cheap, e-publishers.
And now I've veered completely off topic.
Right, so ... up to date and archive accurate Potter word resource anyone?
Suggestions?
Help?
I just want a place where I don't have to look the same thing up four times just to verify that most of them have the same spelling. Which they don't. Apparently.
Still bitter.
ETA: Lariope pointed me in the direction of the potterwords LJ, so now I've got an updated resource to reference! WOOT!
You know, forgetting that first space before an ellipse (which I suck at) or that really wonky thing my first part had that involved my quotation marks appearing three different ways for some reason. I fixed all of those in Part 2--and double checked the other two fics sitting in my "Submit Eventually" pile. Then I decided to go through and try to double check my canon spellings because I tend to double check those things on the HP Lexicon or the Potter Wiki. The Lexi is riddled with errors and the Wiki seems to just copy and paste most of its info directly from the Lexi.
So, I did some digging around in the submission rules at Ashwinder and the Other Archive, only to discover that most of the Potter word resources listed have disappeared. And a good chunk of the ones that are left have not been updated to reflect the new canon. Ashwinder's list has nothing from book seven, for example.
I fully understand that compiling a word list--even from just one book--is a giant pain in the rear, and I for one do not have the time to devote to something like that (right now, although that is just the sort of thing I live for normally), so I can understand why it hasn't been done. But it does make things much more difficult.
I'm hoping looking things up will become much easier once Pottermore opens its store and the "official" e-books are released for purchase. I'm completely tech stupid regarding e-readers, but surely there is a search function on one of them? Of course, then you run into the issue where e-books are traditionally riddled with typos and errors--which I just do not understand. In this day and age, how difficult is it to just use the same file that someone has proofed for the printed book and copy it over for the e-book? It's not as if someone has to type each word in from a hardbound copy into a brand new file. And even if they did, hire a competent typist and stop being so cheap, e-publishers.
And now I've veered completely off topic.
Right, so ... up to date and archive accurate Potter word resource anyone?
Suggestions?
Help?
I just want a place where I don't have to look the same thing up four times just to verify that most of them have the same spelling. Which they don't. Apparently.
Still bitter.
ETA: Lariope pointed me in the direction of the potterwords LJ, so now I've got an updated resource to reference! WOOT!
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