So I'm not bright all the time

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

okay most of the time, but last night I was trying to hurry up and submit the next chapter of my post apocalypse story so I wrote a bit and did editing right in the Literotica submission form.

I wanted to start working on chapter 5, but chapter 4 is nowhere else except here. It is still sitting in pending for now, if I click on it to read it will that send me to the end of the queue?
Honestly I wrote some of it while I was half asleep and I don't even remember what I wrote so I don't want to continue until I read it.

Thanks!

 

[ElectricBlue]

okay most of the time, but last night I was trying to hurry up and submit the next chapter of my post apocalypse story so I wrote a bit and did editing right in the Literotica submission form.

I wanted to start working on chapter 5, but chapter 4 is nowhere else except here. It is still sitting in pending for now, if I click on it to read it will that send me to the end of the queue?
Honestly I wrote some of it while I was half asleep and I don't even remember what I wrote so I don't want to continue until I read it.

Thanks!

Probably best to read it over before you submit. Better to be at the end of the queue and properly edited, than to be at the front of the queue with a hundred mistakes.

 

[NotWise]

okay most of the time, but last night I was trying to hurry up and submit the next chapter of my post apocalypse story so I wrote a bit and did editing right in the Literotica submission form.

Can you move it into "Drafts" and resubmit it later?

 

[RejectReality]

You can view it by clicking the link in the pending folder. I'm not sure whether clicking to preview it after opening the submission will cause its position in the queue to change, but I doubt it. In the old CP, you had to actually hit the "save changes" button in order to affect your position in the queue. I should imagine that it requires hitting the "submit" button in the new CP as well, which is at the end of the preview.

You can certainly review it from the "story text" box, though. I know for sure that doesn't trigger a queue reset. Once you're done reviewing, go anywhere else via the menu, a bookmark, etc.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I don't think it needs any editing, I read it over three times to make sure there were no mistakes, I just can't remember what I added to the story!

I just like to have the last chapter written up while working on the next chapter so I can refer back to it.

I guess I click on it to read and if it ends up at the end of the queue, so be it.

Thanks!

 

[Gentleman_G]

I read somewhere in a FAQ that if you click on it to preview it, it sends it back to the end of the queue again. It certainly explained why my story did not get published for a week, because I kept doing it every day just to make sure.

 

[Jada59]

I read somewhere in a FAQ that if you click on it to preview it, it sends it back to the end of the queue again. It certainly explained why my story did not get published for a week, because I kept doing it every day just to make sure.

You can preview it but you have to remember to send it. Once sent, you can't preview it. It will say Pending.

 

[Kojak01]

okay most of the time, but last night I was trying to hurry up and submit the next chapter of my post apocalypse story so I wrote a bit and did editing right in the Literotica submission form.

I wanted to start working on chapter 5, but chapter 4 is nowhere else except here. It is still sitting in pending for now, if I click on it to read it will that send me to the end of the queue?
Honestly I wrote some of it while I was half asleep and I don't even remember what I wrote so I don't want to continue until I read it.

Thanks!

From my experience, you can open and read it without risk as long as you don't click on the "Save Draft"-button. As soon as you do that, your story will be regarded as a new submission and be added at the end of the queue.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

From my experience, you can open and read it without risk as long as you don't click on the "Save Draft"-button. As soon as you do that, your story will be regarded as a new submission and be added at the end of the queue.

Yep. This is just what I did. Opened it, c&p it into Blogger and just hit back page. Didn't lose anything. Still says pending 2/28. Hoping today I get a publish date.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yes, you can open it and read it and as long as you just quit without saving it stays in the queue right where it is.

But if you make changes and submit them, to the end of the queue you go.

 

[SimonDoom]

Another way to do this is to make sure you have an offline version that you can always check without having worry about messing up the queue

 

[TxRad]

I work off a thumb drive with and a free auto backup program that puts a copy on the computer and on my backup drive every hour. When I save and close, it also puts the backups in place. Redundancy is the only way to go if you've ever lost any or all of your stories.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I work off a thumb drive with and a free auto backup program that puts a copy on the computer and on my backup drive every hour. When I save and close, it also puts the backups in place. Redundancy is the only way to go if you've ever lost any or all of your stories.

You would think that after losing everything a few years ago when my netbook died I'd be better at having backups, but nope, I don't.

I usually write at both Blogger and google drive and they do both save as I write, but sometimes I just write at Literotica when I'm submitting stuff, stupidly.

 

[TxRad]

You would think that after losing everything a few years ago when my netbook died I'd be better at having backups, but nope, I don't.

I usually write at both Blogger and google drive and they do both save as I write, but sometimes I just write at Literotica when I'm submitting stuff, stupidly.

I lost a thumb drive once but everything was backed up on the laptop. Another time, I had a laptop stolen but everything was on the thumb drive in my pocket. Well, most everything anyway. It took two years to recreate the part of a novel I hadn't backed up. It only took six days to write it the first time.

 

[Gentleman_G]

Oh, man, don't remind me about it. I'm still recovering my story I lost when my drive died on me. 230 pages gone to hell. I have it printed, but even the OCR couldn't make much of it due to me having saved on ink back then, making it all blurry.
I still need to copy it over by hand someday But then again, it really needed a rewrite, so perhaps it's only for the better that I redo it ...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have a flash drive, a 1 terabyte hard drive dedicated to backups and every once in awhile I copy them to a RWDVD.

I have lost three hard drives ( c: ) in the last two years...I now have six drives in my new case and have nothing stored on the C: except what needs to be on the c: drive.

I also have ISO images of all the programs I have installed on my C: on a separate hard drive.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

DO you think I shouldn't trust google and Blogger to keep my stuff? I like using them because they both auto save and a lot of times I'll get up to do something and my pug might hit the keyboard, or a kid might come along and type, and I'd lose everything if it weren't for auto save.

 

[HisArpy]

I lost a hard drive a couple of decades ago. I had everything on it from a story I was writing back then. I had a data recovery specialist look at it and he got almost half of the story back for me; the second half and ending. I had to recreate the missing first half. It took nearly a year to fit the new beginning with the old ending.

I learned. EVERYTHING is manually backed up on a thumb drive as well as saved on the hard disk. (AND I now also print the manuscript as soon as it's finished in rough draft and reprint whatever pages get edits. I don't care how sloppy it looks, the work is there even in the event of a major catastrophe.)

I would never trust Google to safeguard my stuff. Thumb drives cost less than $50 and I know where it's at at all times.

 

[Hypoxia]

I lost a hard drive containing my photos and music a decade back. All data was recovered at a high price. Those files now sit on two drives, one backing up the other.

Writings and documents take little space but have their special place. My original texts sit on a thumb drive linked to DropBox so everything there is in the cloud. Those texts also automagically copy to another computer's hard drive. Haven't lost anything yet.