Editing help in terms of preserving formatting

[rayne416]

Hey everyone,

I recently submitted my second chapter of a series and struggling because when it's imported it loses all formatting. I'm writing in online Word, and saving to .docx or .odt doesn't seem to work. Any tech wizards have advice or shortcuts to get a story submitted while preserving said formatting? Thanks in advance!

 

[Todger65]

Hey everyone,

I recently submitted my second chapter of a series and struggling because when it's imported it loses all formatting. I'm writing in online Word, and saving to .docx or .odt doesn't seem to work. Any tech wizards have advice or shortcuts to get a story submitted while preserving said formatting? Thanks in advance!

Not all formatting can be kept but bold, italic and underscores can by either adding the tags yourself or by adding a submission note indicating you wish to keep them and Laurel will add the tags. This takes longer to become approved.

To add the tags yourself, read this. https://www.literotica.com/s/bold-or-italic

 

[rayne416]

Thanks for the reply and link! I think I'm not even at the stage you mentioned (preserving italics and bold, though this is also a problem) based on the reply I get in my rejection:
-Was the story not broken into appropriately sized paragraphs?
-Please break up the very long paragraphs in your story into smaller ones (make them 4-8 sentences long, depending on sentence length). Reading on a screen is different from reading from a book or magazine, as the flicker is tiring on the eye. Also, research shows longer sentences and paragraphs don't do well on mobile devices, as excessively long paragraphs are hard on readers' eyes.

Based on this, it seems that my imported stories are not preserving each paragraph. When I paste into the submission box it loses my indentation, but still preserves each new paragraph so I'm quite confused as to what's happening on the reviewer's end. Any help or insight is appreciated!!

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Thanks for the reply and link! I think I'm not even at the stage you mentioned (preserving italics and bold, though this is also a problem) based on the reply I get in my rejection:
-Was the story not broken into appropriately sized paragraphs?
-Please break up the very long paragraphs in your story into smaller ones (make them 4-8 sentences long, depending on sentence length). Reading on a screen is different from reading from a book or magazine, as the flicker is tiring on the eye. Also, research shows longer sentences and paragraphs don't do well on mobile devices, as excessively long paragraphs are hard on readers' eyes.

Based on this, it seems that my imported stories are not preserving each paragraph. When I paste into the submission box it loses my indentation, but still preserves each new paragraph so I'm quite confused as to what's happening on the reviewer's end. Any help or insight is appreciated!!

Have you tried to upload your story as .txt, .rtf or .doc file, you could check that first. While it c&p should preserve your line feeds you might want to try with having an empty line after each paragraph to help the site's script. The size of your last paragraph in your post is a good length, try not to go beyond three times it's size.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Based on this, it seems that my imported stories are not preserving each paragraph. When I paste into the submission box it loses my indentation, but still preserves each new paragraph so I'm quite confused as to what's happening on the reviewer's end. Any help or insight is appreciated!!

Don't indent at the start of paragraphs and put in two Returns at the end of each paragraph. That will force a line break between paras. Submit left justified text only (right ragged). You've inadvertently delivered the dreaded "great wall of text."

Two Returns, you'll be fine .

 

[KeithD]

Thanks for the reply and link! I think I'm not even at the stage you mentioned (preserving italics and bold, though this is also a problem) based on the reply I get in my rejection:
-Was the story not broken into appropriately sized paragraphs?
-Please break up the very long paragraphs in your story into smaller ones (make them 4-8 sentences long, depending on sentence length). Reading on a screen is different from reading from a book or magazine, as the flicker is tiring on the eye. Also, research shows longer sentences and paragraphs don't do well on mobile devices, as excessively long paragraphs are hard on readers' eyes.

Based on this, it seems that my imported stories are not preserving each paragraph. When I paste into the submission box it loses my indentation, but still preserves each new paragraph so I'm quite confused as to what's happening on the reviewer's end. Any help or insight is appreciated!!

The Literotica story file is essentially a running, single formatting style anthology. There's only one format, universal to everything in the file, and that is Literotica's format. It doesn't permit indenting, for instance. It's all going to come out in a uniform Literotica font and font size, as well. Spacing between paragraphs and margins are going to be in the uniform Literotica style. Literotica permits a few format styles, such as italics and bolding--to a certain extent, but the stories in it's file are going to be in the Literotica formatting, not a personalized author one. This isn't anything strange. This is how publishing does it. You'll need to look at stories in the file, observe how they are formatted, and fall in line if you want to be in the Literotica file.