Need Answer Quickly!!!!

[Shaved_wench]

HELP!I'm having problems submitting a story. I always copy and paste, but evidently my story is too long. How do I submit it? Do I have to break it into different sections and send them in serpartely? What is the word limit, when you copy and paste? Please someone help me?

 

[Seattle Zack]

wench, unless your story is really really long (over 100,000 words) I don't understand why you're having problems with the copy/paste procedure.

Here's some information from the incomparable Weird Harold © 2003:

100,000 words is only a limit if you C&P into the text box on the submission page. If you submit a text file or Word document, you can exceed that limit by whatever amount you want -- up to 32,000+ lit pages. (NOT that I'm recommending submitting an entire saga as one story. ) However, there is at least one story here at Lit that is 150,000+ words in single submission.

... the only practical way to guage how long your story is, in "Lit Pages," is to use the Tools/Word Count function and divide by 3,500 or 4,000. (You can use the number of 3,767 I gave above but it's a cumbersome number for making quick estimates and really no more accurate than a rounder number. Since the true factor is characters any word count is only an approximation anyway.)

Hope this helps.

 

[Shaved_wench]

Thanks Seattle

Your information was very useful. I don't understand the problem either. My word count has only10,486 words. When I select the whole story and try to copy and paste...the box remains empty. When I select part of the story and paste it...it pastes. I tried doing it in sections like this but about half-way through the story...I couldn't paste any more into the box. I use Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh and don't know whether it is compatible with Lit's system. I would send it as an attachment if it were. Once again, thank you for the information...it is very helpful. & shaved_wench

 

[Seattle Zack]

You might try pasting it into a simple program like Notepad first, then copying it from there into the Lit box. Changing it to a .txt file removes all the formatting, which may be the problem.

Otherwise, just attach it and try it that way. I assume it's a holiday contest story, which is probably why you want to get it approved as quickly as possible, though.

Good luck