Having posted a story using the online submission form, I found that the text that appeared in the box when I previewed it came out more scattered than when I had typed it. Why is that? The story I submitted today in the gay male category is titled 'A day in the forest'. So I like to know how to avoid that thanks.
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Darkniciad
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Well, I'm not sure what you mean by scattered, but here is a guess of a possible problem and solution.
If you pasted from a word processor ( word, wordperfect, etc. ) then you probably used formatting in the document that isn't translating into the plain text paste operation.
Try saving your story as a plain text document, and then paste from that. Go through it first and make sure that none of your carriage returns have gone missing during the translation. The page breaks in word processor documents will often lose carriage returns when saving to plain text.
What you see in the preview window is a fair approximation of how your story will look on the site. If it looks crazy in the preview, then you're likely to receive a rejection for formatting issues, or your story will post looking as crazy as it does in the preview.
If you pasted from a word processor ( word, wordperfect, etc. ) then you probably used formatting in the document that isn't translating into the plain text paste operation.
Try saving your story as a plain text document, and then paste from that. Go through it first and make sure that none of your carriage returns have gone missing during the translation. The page breaks in word processor documents will often lose carriage returns when saving to plain text.
What you see in the preview window is a fair approximation of how your story will look on the site. If it looks crazy in the preview, then you're likely to receive a rejection for formatting issues, or your story will post looking as crazy as it does in the preview.
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nakedeye said:
Don't forget that if you use italics, bold, or other such formatting, you'll need to manually insert the correct tags in the plain text document in order for them to appear on the site.
<i>italic text</i>
<b>bold text</b>
<center>centered text</center>
<blockquote></blockquote> are also allowed.
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elfin_odalisque
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All I get when I click on your stories is'Hot Neighbors', which is horribly short, with horribly long paragraphs and no understanding of how dialogue should be presented.
'A Day in the Forest' hasn't appeared yet.
If you are not too confident about submitting a story in the box as HTML, just add a Word file as an attachment and all should be well (even if it takes a coupe of days longer).
Seriously, you need to look at your grammar and presentation.
Elle
'A Day in the Forest' hasn't appeared yet.
If you are not too confident about submitting a story in the box as HTML, just add a Word file as an attachment and all should be well (even if it takes a coupe of days longer).
Seriously, you need to look at your grammar and presentation.
Elle
elfin_odalisque said:
Yep I already know. Good I like your straightforward honesty of opinion. However Im not doing exceptionally bad for having had little formal edu. But Im working on it ok. Just having teething problems being a newbie at this.
Gotta start somewhere hey. As for Day in the forest Ch. 1; which I put in lot more dialogue and shorter paras; be patient ok. Its still in the 'pending' basket awaiting approval.
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nakedeye said:
Since it's still pending you have plenty of time to make changes to fix the text arrangement issues.
Of course, it'll go to the end of the line once you save changes and resubmit, but it sounds as if that's necessary.
It does take time to get used to the whole system. Good luck!
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