How do I convert my Word document for Literotica to separate my paragraphs?

[Vautour]

N/A

 

[KeithD]

You can easily provide the paragraph separations yourself before submitting. Find/Replace, replacing one paragraph return with two.

 

[Todger65]

That is the answer, unfortunate a lot of writers add space after a paragraph using the paragraph settings.

It looks ok on the screen and when printed on paper, but as it only has one end of paragraph symbol, conversion to html removes that extra spacing.

The best way, as advised by KeithD, is to add another physical blank line. Html conversion recognises this symbol and converts it correctly.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

Or just don't worry about it. The Lit submission bot is smart enough to fix this for you. It will show poorly in the submission box, but properly once published.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Or just don't worry about it. The Lit submission bot is smart enough to fix this for you. It will show poorly in the submission box, but properly once published.

Are you sure about that? I thought the Preview feature is exactly that, a preview of the story as it will display when published. I know it's helped me find a few paragraph returns I'd missed, because the line break was missing. Mind you, since I fixed it in Preview, the Lit bot had nothing to do.

I have no idea what the Lit bot might do nowadays, but in the past, it didn't automatically fix a missed para break - the formatting remained cocked up if I'd cocked it up.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

Are you sure about that?

Absolutely positive. It also takes care of two spaces.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Absolutely positive. It also takes care of two spaces.

Interesting. That's a refinement then, coz I'm sure it didn't do that in previous years.

But para line breaks and two spaces - I do that while writing and in tidy up edit, so my copy is the best I can get it before I submit.

 

[SimonDoom]

You can easily provide the paragraph separations yourself before submitting. Find/Replace, replacing one paragraph return with two.

Keith, this is when the document is in the submission text box, right?

I encountered this problem with a story recently because I forgot how my document had been formatted, and it included paragraph spacing that was removed when I uploaded the Word document.

My norm is to submit documents without any paragraph spacing, except the single extra line I manually insert as I draft.