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OK. Thank you folks you’ve given me an idea.
Maybe I can get round it by not implying the ringing sound is unbroken. Does this work?I rang her mobile. No reply. Desperation prompted my repeated dialling. More than anything else I wanted her to be safe. Even wanted to hear her saying fuck you and calling me a fat cow. Only she could end this nightmare. Please let her be all right. I tapped in her number yet again and pressed my mobile to my ear, willing her to answer.
Somewhere there was a phone that kept ringing and ringing.
Yes, so damn annoying. I expect we’ve all been here with our stories in one way or another. Just when I sat back happily, thinking I’d at last finished my story, that thought about plausibility came to me. And it won’t go away. However…
Last night I tried carefully writing into the story the stop-start from repeated redialling and thought it might be okay because the caller is desperately worried about the phone owner’s disappearance and could be obsessively trying to contact her. But then…
I had another try at googling some more about mobiles and I found instructions of how to disconnect voicemail. It might depend on what type of mobile, but at least one of them said, “When you disable voicemail your phone will ring indefinitely until the caller hangs up or you answer your phone.” Wonderful! Maybe I could just slip into the story earlier when someone tries ringing that they say ‘It was just ringing. Seems her voicemail is disconnected’. Then leave the original ending. That’s maybe best, do you think? (As long as what it said via google is correct).Thanks for your comments Daeds and Tony Lyttle. My mobile won’t just ring and ring, but whether it is or isn’t possible with mobiles generally, maybe most readers would just think (if they thought anything), ‘Oh, my phone doesn’t do that but other phones might’. I do want my story to be realistic, but perhaps I’m getting overly fussy in my old age!
Thanks. I’ll resume sending stuff to agents like it is then.
I expect the outcome will be the same in any case. Soon I will have enough flipping rejections to paper a wall!Dunno. Think so. I thought all gmail was web based.
I’ve found now that if instead of opening the attachment with one click, I open with Google Docs, the words on the screen are clearer (not as clear as the original unattached document, but better than opening with one click). But I find that viewing when opened with Google Docs alters the words per page. I mean my one-page synopsis shows up as taking two pages (could be a problem when asked to send only one page). I suppose none of this matters if the agent sees the document as I originally typed it, but it’s got me worried that she won’t.
Anyway, thanks for your comments (and patience with me!), which I do appreciate.Sorry, I’m not explaining this very well as I’m finding it hard to explain what I mean.
Yes, if I type up, say, my synopsis in Times New Roman in Word and save it in a folder in Word, I have no problem when I open it again to look at, print, or edit. But to send the synopsis to an agent, I go into my email programme (gmail) and send it by email attachment. If I then go into my ‘Sent’ mail and open the attachment there (by clicking on the attachment in the email I sent to them) to check what it looks like, there is this problem in viewing on the computer screen. And same problem when I receive an email with an attachment in Times New Roman when I click on the attachment in the email to open it. For years I did this exactly the same and had no problem until more recently, though I haven’t changed any settings.
You’ve just given me an idea. I’ll set up a different email programme and see if it still happens then. Maybe it’s something to do with gmail.Thanks for commenting Raine. I’ve tried everything except uninstalling and reinstalling word. It’s weird. I never had this trouble until some months ago though it might have happened earlier without my knowing. I only found out when I opened an email attachment I’d sent. The typed document in word looks fine in Times New Roman but not when opened as an attachment.
I haven’t got the hang of using this site yet so I hope I’m putting this in the right place.
Just wondered if anyone else is having a problem with the Times New Roman font, 12 pt? This is the font in which agents or competitions often want submissions. It used to be fine for me, but for some time now I find that text I send or receive in this font does not read properly when opened on my screen. I use a desktop PC with Windows 10 and the word processor package I use is Word). It blurs some of the letters out and is virtually unreadable, though okay when I print out the document. I don’t know if it’s just like this on my screen or if the recipient will find my document hard if not impossible to read on screen. I don’t know how to fix this and it makes me concerned about submitting to agents or competitions. Other fonts, such as Ariel, are okay when I open the document on screen, but often submission requirement is to use Times New Roman.
