Rejected as "Bad File"

[Guest]

Ok, I've submitted an edit for a story currently up. The file is the same as the original with a couple of typo corrections. I've submitted it twice. Both times it has been rejected because

"The file is not one we can open, came through garbled, or the text field is blank."

OK, I've sent this file via email to others who have opened it successfully. I've opened it on multiple computers -- successfully. I have no idea what EXACTLY is the problem the editors are having with this file and, as you can see, the feedback is not specific enough. I'm using the same file as was originally uploaded and accepted, with the typos corrected.

I am uploading this as a WORD.DOC file because of some italics used in the story. The italics are important to the sense of the story, so taking them out is not an option. I've carefully combed it for any special or weird codes WORD might have snuck in on me, and I can't find them. I've run out of ideas.

Any suggestions?

 

[cloudy]

Ok, I've submitted an edit for a story currently up. The file is the same as the original with a couple of typo corrections. I've submitted it twice. Both times it has been rejected because

"The file is not one we can open, came through garbled, or the text field is blank."

OK, I've sent this file via email to others who have opened it successfully. I've opened it on multiple computers -- successfully. I have no idea what EXACTLY is the problem the editors are having with this file and, as you can see, the feedback is not specific enough. I'm using the same file as was originally uploaded and accepted, with the typos corrected.

I am uploading this as a WORD.DOC file because of some italics used in the story. The italics are important to the sense of the story, so taking them out is not an option. I've carefully combed it for any special or weird codes WORD might have snuck in on me, and I can't find them. I've run out of ideas.

Any suggestions?

could you copy and paste in the box?

You can format italics by using <i> and </i> - that's what I usually do.

 

[Guest]

Ok, I've submitted an edit for a story currently up. The file is the same as the original with a couple of typo corrections. I've submitted it twice. Both times it has been rejected because

"The file is not one we can open, came through garbled, or the text field is blank."

OK, I've sent this file via email to others who have opened it successfully. I've opened it on multiple computers -- successfully. I have no idea what EXACTLY is the problem the editors are having with this file and, as you can see, the feedback is not specific enough. I'm using the same file as was originally uploaded and accepted, with the typos corrected.

I am uploading this as a WORD.DOC file because of some italics used in the story. The italics are important to the sense of the story, so taking them out is not an option. I've carefully combed it for any special or weird codes WORD might have snuck in on me, and I can't find them. I've run out of ideas.

Any suggestions?

Okay...
copy and paste the story into the Lit submission form... in there find ALL of the things that you need as italics and put the <i> and </i> around the things that you need done that way, in the authors notes on the bottom make a note to the editors telling them that you have placed special tags within the story that are needed for the stories proper posting. Viola.

 

[Guest]

Ah hah!

I was told by my beautiful husband I couldn't use tags in the paste box!

I adore and worship you both!

 

[CopyCarver]

Seconding Cloudy's and Elizabeht's advice.

In the odd chance that this doesn't work, you might try attaching the text (as a Word doc.) to an email addressed to submit@literotica.com. Be sure the title of your story is listed verbatim in the subject line. Next, go to "Submit a Story" in your Member Profile, and fill in the title, description, and category. Type "Story Submitted Via Email" into the box intended for the story itself.


This by-way-of-Brooklyn submission procedure worked for one of "my" authors who recently had the same grief you're experiencing.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Seconding Cloudy's and Elizabeht's advice.

In the odd chance that this doesn't work, you might try attaching the text (as a Word doc.) to an email addressed to submit@literotica.com. Be sure the title of your story is listed verbatim in the subject line. Next, go to "Submit a Story" in your Member Profile, and fill in the title, description, and category. Type "Story Submitted Via Email" into the box intended for the story itself.


This by-way-of-Brooklyn submission procedure worked for one of "my" authors who recently had the same grief you're experiencing.

I used to post stories this way too. In fact, my first twenty or so were sent in this way. It is pretty iffy, though, and slow. Besides that, large files, 15,000 wors or so, are sometimes not accepted.

 

[SlickTony]

I don't see why one should ever bother with submitting a story as an attachment, when it is so easy to cut and paste it into the submission form.

And by all means, dispense with the MSWord formatting and just put in all the html coding yourself. The one time did not take my own advice, my formatting ended up being all bitched up, center justified when I didn't intend it. It was straightened out afterwards.

Even something as basic as paragraph formatting can lose in the translation. When I submitted my latest story, copy/pasting it into the form, my paragrahs had all disappeared. When I'm in MSWord, I usually just indent to indicate a new paragraph, whereas Lit separates the paragraphs and doesn't indent them.

I ended up having to go through the whole story and insert <p> codes. And viewing and going back several times because I'd notice some place where there should have been a <p> code and there wasn't. I'm at work on a new story and I've started out putting code for the paragraphs from the beginning. That way I'm sure they're all there.

I even tried writing it in Notepad, but I wanted the benefit of the spellcheck and the word counter, so I transferred it to MSWord after all.

 

[Guest]

Hokay, is all coded and posted and stuff and things. Now, back to waiting...and waiting...and waiting.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Hokay, is all coded and posted and stuff and things. Now, back to waiting...and waiting...and waiting.

Some take longer than others. I have one right now that I submitted Mar. 31 and it is still pending, with nine views. If you use email and an attachment, it will probably take even longer than that.

 

[Guest]

Some take longer than others. I have one right now that I submitted Mar. 31 and it is still pending, with nine views. If you use email and an attachment, it will probably take even longer than that.

Box dear...
remember... the EDC started on March 25ish... if it was NOT an EDC story it won't post until after the contest is over....

 

[Boxlicker101]

Box dear...
remember... the EDC started on March 25ish... if it was NOT an EDC story it won't post until after the contest is over....

I know it takes longer when there is a contest going on. I submitted a story, not in the contest, on March 28 and it posted April 6.