Hello everyone!

[Eldridge]

Hi there!

Thought I'd introduce myself, I'm Eldridge (as if you hadn't figured that out already), and I've been reading Literotica for about a year now I think.

I have finally registered and am working on my first of what will hopefully be many stories, and I started out by giving some feedback in the appropriate forum.

Just wanted to say hi to everyone!


Now that that's out of the way, I also have a question. I will assume, out of ignorance, that most people here use a variety of Microsoft Word as their Word Processor.

Does anyone have any idea how the pages on literotica correspond to the pages in Word? I know that's really dependant on your own page setup in Word, but I'm not really looking for exact figures, just an estimate would be good. Ie, how many Word pages equal one Literotica page?

The reason for it being that my first chapter of my first story is pretty long, and I don't want to put out a 9 page (literotica pages) story that really only has sex in the last few pages as my very first entry.

Any advice on this matter greatly appreciated

(And yes, I know I could cut it into two chapters, but that would mean the very first chapter has no sex in it whatsoever... A dilemma as you can see.)

Thanks and keep up the great writing! I definitely hope to become an active member, for as long as time permits.

Eldridge.

Edited because I forgot half my question...

 

[Octavian]

Hello Eldridge

I know my 104 page Microsoft Word story equated to 13 Literotica pages.

Therefore 8 Word pages is equivalent to 1 Lit page.


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[Pookie]

Welcome and good luck with your first story!

If this helps ... One literotica page for me seems to be about 4000 words or about 20.4K as a text file. You can check your word count in MS Word.

 

[Eldridge]

Thanks Octavian and Pookie_grrl

I guess things aren't as bad as I had thought then, which is good.

Eldridge.

 

[BigTexan]

Hi Eldrige and welcome! Come on in and join us. Only a few of us bite.

I will assume, out of ignorance, that most people here use a variety of Microsoft Word as their Word Processor.

Actually my operating system of choice, Linux, doesn't run Word. Instead I downloaded "Open Office" It has all the same kinds of programs that M$ Office has but it has several advantages.

1) It runs on Linux. There is also a Windows and a Mac version.

2) It has a better word processor. I used M$ Office for several years back in the 90's and Open Office does not crash or corrupt my files at all, compared to crashing at least twice a day for Office 98. Oh and it can read and save files to the native M$ formats with no problems.

3) It has a better Thesaurus.

4) It is very configurable. If you don't like the way it does something, there is a good chance you can change the way it does it. Can M$ Office do this?

5) Last but not least. It's FREE!

If you are interested, check it out at

www.openoffice.org

BigTexan

 

[TheEarl]

Hello Eldridge. Welcome to Lit. Sorry, I can't help you in any way shape or form as I don't actually know. I'm just conveying my best wishes.

The Earl

 

[Quasimodem]

Eldridge,

I can't give you too much info about how your word processor's pagatian corresponds to Literotica's pagation. That depends upon what margin width and font size you have set. Also, dialogue, takes up more space than straight description.

There is only one useful tip I can give you. (If you haven't already figured it out for yourself.)

Having lived through two changes of operating system, and five different word processors, I have REALLY learned the following piece of advice the hard way.

Always keep a finished copy of what you have written in ASCII (DOS) TEXT format, on a floppy disk. That way, even if your next operating system or word processor is not compactable with your present, it WILL be able to make use of an ASCII TEXT file.

Believe me, following this advice can save you a ton of work!

 

[wildsweetone]

Hi there Eldridge Welcome to Litland, I hope you enjoy your stay.

 

[KillerMuffin]

On the average, 3500 words is one lit page. A lit page is set to 450 lines of text/white space, I believe.

Since we all use different fonts and different sized fonts, you can't really translate page numbers to page numbers. There is simply no way to know where your pages will be cut. Well, wait, I think Weird Harold has a How-To out that'll teach you how to see what your story will look like on a Lit page, though.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

Generally I write using word, times new roman 12 font. About 8 pages on word is 1 page on lit.

 

[Eldridge]

Thanks for all the good advice and the welcomes, everyone

Eldridge.