Notes to the editor.

[NuclearFairy]

I'm trying to edit the first part of Neptune's Blessings. However, the title in conjunction with Edit is too long for the box, so just like the FAQ says to do I put in Story Edit in the title, and the name of the section I'm wanting the edit applied to in the notes to editor. Only thing is... It keeps turning ' into '

Is this new? If I hit submit will it edit the proper part, or should I submit a bug report about it instead of trying to edit just yet?

 

[Bamagan]

That's definitely a head scritcher. I believe that's the correct code for an apostrophe, so it'll probably be fine when displayed on a webpage. Still, very weird and probably worth calling out in the notes section.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm trying to edit the first part of Neptune's Blessings. However, the title in conjunction with Edit is too long for the box, so just like the FAQ says to do I put in Story Edit in the title, and the name of the section I'm wanting the edit applied to in the notes to editor. Only thing is... It keeps turning ' into '

To edit, you submit an entire new copy of the story, not just the bit you want to change. Truncate the title with the word EDIT at the end, explain what you want to do, resubmit, then sit back and wait a couple, three weeks.

Is this new? If I hit submit will it edit the proper part, or should I submit a bug report about it instead of trying to edit just yet?

As above, submit the whole thing.

Better yet, put your energy into a new story. I don't get this constant futzing people do with the same story. Is it really worth the effort, given how long it takes? Unless it's a catastrophic cock up with formatting that makes it unreadable, I wouldn't bother. We all have goofs and typos, or something minor that went wrong. When I stuff something up, I just add a comment, apologising for the goof, and move on.

 

[TheLobster]

The Notes field has a long-standing "double escaping" bug. I'm pretty sure Laurel et al. are aware of it at this point.

Still, like @ElectricBlue said, the simplest option is to just resubmit the entire story and let the admins replace it wholesale. They can still diff it to see if you haven't changed too much to qualify of 'minor' edit.

(In this case, "entire story" apparently means the whole combined chapters 1 to 6).

 

[NuclearFairy]

Yes, I did put in the entirety of chapters 1-6, even though the main edit I want to do is cutting most of the prefix out. It's all there. My story title is just too long to put the word edit after. So as per the instructions from the FAQ, I put story edit in the title section, and the title of the story in the notes to editor.

That's definitely a head scritcher. I believe that's the correct code for an apostrophe, so it'll probably be fine when displayed on a webpage. Still, very weird and probably worth calling out in the notes section.

I'll probably wind up doing that.

 

[Statius]

To edit, you submit an entire new copy of the story, not just the bit you want to change. Truncate the title with the word EDIT at the end, explain what you want to do, resubmit, then sit back and wait a couple, three weeks.

As above, submit the whole thing.

Better yet, put your energy into a new story. I don't get this constant futzing people do with the same story. Is it really worth the effort, given how long it takes? Unless it's a catastrophic cock up with formatting that makes it unreadable, I wouldn't bother. We all have goofs and typos, or something minor that went wrong. When I stuff something up, I just add a comment, apologising for the goof, and move on.

It was worth it to me when I
I edited an entire series.