Ok... so how?

[The Mystery Valiant]

I can't understand why it is so hard to find things here? I submitted my poem and now I want to see it so I can get the link for it. I can't ask people to see it if I can't post a link! I really appreciate getting to the login and help to post my poem. I don't want to even do something this redundant..., But I usually don't have problems finding my way around. But I sure have this problem this time. How can I find my accepted poem? I just need to have the bloody link!

 

[champagne1982]

I can't understand why it is so hard to find things here? I submitted my poem and now I want to see it so I can get the link for it. I can't ask people to see it if I can't post a link! I really appreciate getting to the login and help to post my poem. I don't want to even do something this redundant..., But I usually don't have problems finding my way around. But I sure have this problem this time. How can I find my accepted poem? I just need to have the bloody link!

Your poem link is here ... Slow

Most people who post here are like you, and merely visit the forums and the web site in general to post and have fun. You really could have checked out the story index page and then scrolled down to new poems..

I suggest bookmarking your page (The Mystery Valiant) so that you can find your new poems. Have a good day.

 

[The Mystery Valiant]

Thanx

Truth is I'm just trying ti find my way around the literary web, And although I've been here a short while, I've been trying to get a general idea on how things work. Now I have those links in my favorite file, I'll be able to get around better. Still as the Faq page doesn't address the question of navigation to such pages. Just generally how does one find these portions of the site without bumbling and taking up space on the board's? I mean the CP panel is of no help whatsoever. I mean where can I find a map or a navigation page or somehting along that matter?

 

[champagne1982]

The Story Index Page will link you to almost everything you need, just scroll down the page until you find a link you want to follow. There are member search features, story search, alphabetical listings for each category, top lists, chat and of course bulletin boards.

Most people don't realize the size and scope of the Literotica web site. It is massive (for instance, here's a snap shot of the number of non-erotic poems posted at this moment, 17316). All I can suggest is that if you mean to explore the site, plan on taking time to do so. If you simply want to use the bulletin boards, then just click along the top of these pages, you'll eventually find a link to what you need. Chat is totally separate and apart from the story site but is linked to from the index and administered by the same owners.

The poetry feedback forum has some helpful guides written by our moderators and other long term posters. They're locked into place at the top of the thread index.

And please, have fun! We don't mind erroneous clutter, there's an archiving system in place that eventually places inactive threads in the basement.

 

[The Mystery Valiant]

Right on!

Thanx Champagne, Why the heck couldn't I find this page in the first place? How did I bypass it? I must have been intent on something else and the bookmarked right past it. Well, that better be my only flub for the next three year's.

 

[Liar]

Thanx Champagne, Why the heck couldn't I find this page in the first place? How did I bypass it? I must have been intent on something else and the bookmarked right past it. Well, that better be my only flub for the next three year's.

We'll see.

And if I didn't say it already, hi and welcome.

 

[The Mystery Valiant]

Again..., how?

Well, my poem is accessable and I can view it. But now, how do I find the comments made on my poem. I can't seem to find a link to view comments.

 

[champagne1982]

Well, my poem is accessable and I can view it. But now, how do I find the comments made on my poem. I can't seem to find a link to view comments.

You can log in at the Story Index page and from there, access your submission options and your comment and profile edit features for the main site. It won't change your bulletin board profile much, but it will allow you to see your voting stats and to read and/or delete the public comments on your poem.

Have you read any poems or made comments? Practice makes perfect and you'll find the more you interact, the more contacts and friends you'll make.

Are you having fun yet?

 

[wildsweetone]

Hi and welcome to the poetry forum.



There are no comments on your poem as yet. I've just read your poem for the first time and added a comment myself. You'll see it either straight away or in an hour or so.

To get to my comment, simply click on your poem link and you'll see my comment at the bottom of the page.

To delete my comment, go to the Login,
log in,
click submissions,
then under submissions click view.
Scroll down until you get to your poem,
click Moderate Public Comments
scroll down to the comment you wish to delete
and click Delete the above comment.

Hope that helps.

 

[wildsweetone]

oops, sorry Champ... it took me half an hour with breaks to type my response and I didn't see yours.

 

[champagne1982]

oops, sorry Champ... it took me half an hour with breaks to type my response and I didn't see yours.

Yours is more helpful than mine.

I find I don't have the same patience for user feature details as I once did. The FAQ on the Story Index page is most helpful in these situations too.

 

[wildsweetone]

As odd as it sometimes seems there are still people in the world who have no idea how to turn a computer on, let alone wander around and know how to find the kind of information they want. I remember strongly, coming here to Litland and being completely overwhelmed by how huge the site is, how much information there was to read just to know the basics of posting and (and where) and how to submit (stories). I think it took me three weeks to have a reasonable idea of everything. lol

Thank god for tenacity or I probably would have given up after the first week - just imagine what life would have been like if I had given up! I never would have learnt about... well, I might have done, eventually I guess. Somehow.

I still find it refereshing when someone new comes along and smacks me in the back of the head to remind me they don't know their way around. *smile*

I think when Manu gets the new view of the site up and running that things will be a little easier to find.

 

[The Mystery Valiant]

As odd as it sometimes seems there are still people in the world who have no idea how to turn a computer on, let alone wander around and know how to find the kind of information they want. I remember strongly, coming here to Litland and being completely overwhelmed by how huge the site is, how much information there was to read just to know the basics of posting and (and where) and how to submit (stories). I think it took me three weeks to have a reasonable idea of everything. lol

Thank god for tenacity or I probably would have given up after the first week - just imagine what life would have been like if I had given up! I never would have learnt about... well, I might have done, eventually I guess. Somehow.

I still find it refereshing when someone new comes along and smacks me in the back of the head to remind me they don't know their way around. *smile*

I think when Manu gets the new view of the site up and running that things will be a little easier to find.

Oooooooo, ouch! I'm not that redundant on computer's. I've spent a few years on another forum within the same format. But their navigation links are more direct than the ones here. Like, I'm to go to the "Story index"...., I would have thought there would be a "Poetry Options" link. Oh..., besides, I don't strike women! Something my mother drilled into me.

BTW, I read your comment and I'm not quite sure just what you mean? I'm not familiar with the term "ellipses" and why they don't conform with comma's. Also, If you could tell me, demonstrate and/or show me in one of your own works (via link) as to just what I should consider.

Champagne, I am doing a whole lot better, thanx to you. And I haven't truly gotten around to "having fun". I'm still plugging my way around. But I think after posting a few more poems and putting together a couple of good stories that it might become a little more enjoyable. Just give me a little time. I'm just naturally a rather intense person already.

 

[wildsweetone]

my apologies. i didn't intend to infer you had no idea what you were doing on a computer.

i can't show you ellipses in my poetry as i don't use them.

el·lip·sis Audio pronunciation of "ellipses" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-lpss)
n. pl. el·lip·ses (-sz)

1.
1. The omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding.
2. An example of such omission.
2. A mark or series of marks (... or * * *, for example) used in writing or printing to indicate an omission, especially of letters or words.

"Slow"
by The Mystery Valiant ©

Slow..., slow was the day.
Positioned by the door I moodily wait.
Maybe it was time..., or fate.
And I stay,
wind, pleasing my face.
Now in the saturated dusk, a sweet day.
I am haloed in the wish.

i am not 100% certain, but i think you are using the ellipses as a form of extended pause whilst reading, rather than as an indication of an omission.

in my opinion, the pause can be created by using the comma alone, or also by utilising a different line end break.

as i said on your Comment's page, i have not seen both the ellipses and comma used in this way before. i found it interesting.

 

[The Mystery Valiant]

Curious

I am not 100% certain, but I think you are using the ellipses as a form of extended pause whilst reading, rather than as an indication of an omission.

in my opinion, the pause can be created by using the comma alone, or also by utilising a different line end break.

as i said on your Comment's page, i have not seen both the ellipses and comma used in this way before. i found it interesting.

Alright..., I understand. However I use too many comma's as it is already. I'm not trying to use these (ellipses) as pauses, but to me it's more like trying to exercise a kind of alternate directive. Like a way to switch angles, to make a forked pathway through the words I'm trying to limit purposeful structure through. It sounds phony as all hell, but I am trying to make my work skirt the direct definitions of the words. I want to use the minor definitive influences within the words. In this way, I think I might change the onus of the poem into a more ethereal implication. ))