Real life has been seriously intruding (stuff that involves lawyers, that serious), but back to my writing exercises at last.
But but but--what happened here at Wattpad while I was gone? I find that "paste" suddenly doesn't work. After fiddling with a few browsers, I finally got my story inserted as *plain text*, which is absolutely no good since so much of these stories include Tomoko talking to herself in italics. I can't go through every story and reformat every freaking sentence!
If I hadn't already found a workaround, I would have seriously quit Wattpad over this. I'm not writing a story in a text box. I don't care how much Wattpad wants me to write a story in a text box. Not happening. Reformatting stuff that's already fully formatted, also not happening. I don't need to be forced to introduce errors for no good reason. I would have seriously just moved everything over to Tumblr or something.
The workaround is a Chrome plugin aptly named "Don't F*** With Paste". This instantly overrides Wattpad's evil text box mischief. I paste with no prob, and my italics are preserved. Whew!