Life Viewed Through an Amber Focus

Seriously, Rich Text Editor, why will you not work right?  Why are you breaking up paragraphs all weird and adding extra spaces and generally making it impossible to format anything so it looks good!  And LJ why have you not fixed this yet?  It's been a month!

I am going to try to post my first chapter soon.  I will make an attempt at html, but that will take me forever.  I did send it into Teaspoon so who knows if I will get this figured out before it's posted there.  It's a toss up right now of what will take the longest.

I have another question for all the tech savvy folks on my f-list.  Nothing to do with LJ itself or cuts this time, just how do I make something like this:  www.whofic.com be a link that says the word Teaspoon instead of being the actual words of the link?

Thanks in advance for being so patient with my lack of knowledge.  You guys have been great.