A bit blind

[Ironfistvk]

I'm perhaps a bit blind but been trying to submit a story and the guide lines says

"First, sign up as a Literotica Member. Once you've done so, you can submit stories and poems directly from your profile, using the Submit links at the top of the member page."

and am unable to find that particular link. Can someone help me out please. Thankyou.

 

[Ironfistvk]

never mind found it......

 

[Guest]

never mind found it......

Glad you found it.

Welcome to the AH!

 

[glynndah]

I was going to tell you, but I generally have to sneak up on it myself.

A welcome for the little newbie from the good little witch.

 

[scriptordelecto]

Welcome to the crazy....er I mean the AH.

 

[Ironfistvk]

Thank you hoping it would get approved. And for some reason I tried to upload it through .rtf and .doc file extensions but the note that came up kept saying it was plain .txt format and a human has to reformat it. Finally gave up and used copy paste....shudders seeing how its all unformatted that way.

 

[cantdog]

That's a problem. I spent hours reformatting the pasted version before.

It's a html field, that box one pastes into, if that's of any help to you. You'd use carets to set off formatting codes, as for example <i> and </i> around a bit of text you'd like to be italicked.

 

[cantdog]

There's a How-To in the How-To category of articles and stories posted here, that details what html codes will work, and how to use their syntax.

 

[Ironfistvk]

Now that you mention it makes sense.......groans I hate Html and all the bloody tags

 

[cantdog]

Well, at least you can sit around at leisure and do the tags, then paste the whole bloody thing in one stroke. DO preview, though, and check carefully.

 

[Ironfistvk]

bit late now considering already submitted it

 

[cantdog]

Well, when you read it? Either it'll be formatted unacceptably poorly, or it'll be something you can live with.

If you resent it too much, you re-submit under the same title, but with (EDITED) appended to it. The new version will pass through another approval process, because some people have snuck in violations of the ground rules that way in the past. Then it will appear in the place of the old, screwed-up version.

It's a big site. Mills of God and all that jive.

 

[starrkers]

I think while it's pending you can edit it - puts it back at the bottom of the submission heap, but it is possible.

 

[cloudy]

Welcome to the AH.

(some of us bite )

 

[glynndah]

Welcome to the AH.

(some of us bite )

We all do, but some of us are more easily provoked than others.

 

[cloudy]

We all do, but some of us are more easily provoked than others.

...and some of us need no provocation at all.

 

[glynndah]

You're right, of course. I stand corrected, fellow witch. *backs away very carefully*

 

[Ironfistvk]

Biting is acceptable so long as you don't take out a chunk of flesh....though if you do draw blood be ready to steady me cause will defintely pass out. Say how or where will I know if it has been approved?

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Welcome to the funhouse

 

[cantdog]

Say how or where will I know if it has been approved?

THE question. It can take as much as two weeks, if contest entries are being put up, under deadline, or if it's in a format from a word processor.

Word processors, after all, are essentially a stream of printer codes, telling the printer what to do. That's why they suggest stripping out curly quotes and saving to a simpler format like *.rtf (or even *.txt) even if you're going to submit a file. Font information and kerning codes won't be used anyway-- you get the idea. A word processor file will need attention and drudge work from a human being to really make the transition to the html display on Lit, but, unfortunately, they seem to rely on a program, so you get things posted with format errors that a human would have seen right away.

Better to do the drudge work yourself, in my view.

Anyway, that processing step can make a submission take longer, obviously. But in the sunny atmosphere of a time when no contests are happening and the end of the month work isn't being done to the site, it can take five days or so. Three for a poem, if it isn't The Rape of the Lock or something.

Contest submissions themselves frequently go up in mere hours.

 

[cantdog]

As to where to look?

Go to the Index page, the Stories and Poems Index, that is. Under Login, of course, you can just go look. The path is LOGIN - SUBMISSIONS - VIEW. It'll say 'approved' where it now says 'pending.'

Alternatively, again from the Index page, follow the link to the New Lists, which is more or less chronological-by-batches the list of recently approved stuff, listed most recent first. One fine day, there it will be.

 

[glynndah]

Oh, and please add a link to your story in your signature so we all can find it and say nice things.