Robo Edit?

[CuteSlaveLisa]

Robo editing?

I am new here. I am not trying to make waves, I have eight published stories. And I am happy they are out there for people to read. I only exist as an author if people read my work. All submitted as docx files. All have bizarre modifications from the original files still on my hard drive. Modifications that for the love of God I simply cannot imagine a human editor taking the time or effort to perform.

I am probably too sensitive and too much of a perfectionist. Is there a way to get the words I type through the placental barrier?

Lisa Ann

 

[KeithD]

I don't think there's editing in any form by the Web site of what is submitted here. Without evidence there's really nothing anyone can react to on this.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I am probably too sensitive and too much of a perfectionist. Is there a way to get the words I type through the placental barrier?

I've found that occasionally docx files get corrupted, and do strange things. Try saving into a different format (.rtf or .txt) - that should purge rubbish from the file.

If you use html at all, make sure it's correct. I've had problems with italics not converting which I've not been able to find nor resolve, plus a use of < text text text > that backfired - I was trying to signify an email, but a conversion script thought it was html...

Scrub your raw text for glitches - if the site is doing something, it'll be in your file.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

In some cases what you format in a .doc or .docx file will not carry over to the hard and fast CSS that Lit uses to format the text from the database.

All stories are stored as pure text in a database field, the style scrip formats the text according to what Lit wants as far as font, size, etc. Lit. does allow you to add bold, italics, underline, center, and blockquote. (indent)

What the conversion script does when it see one of the above html tags in the text is leave it there. any other things like font or font size is stripped out.

 

[Hypoxia]

How to make your submission look as you wish:

* Edit plain vanilla TXT files with HTML tags inserted if you really must.
* Use the few available HTML tags to affect display in most browsers.
* Don't get fancy. No tags or effects will carry over to the Android app.
* Don't expect any DOC, DOCX, RTF, etc formatted files to look right.
* The character set and line spacings are all you can really depend on.
* Use extended characters at your own risk. Some display, some don't.

LIT is not built for fancy formatting. Keep it basic and you'll do okay.

 

[yukonnights]

How to make your submission look as you wish:

* Edit plain vanilla TXT files with HTML tags inserted if you really must.
* Use the few available HTML tags to affect display in most browsers.
* Don't get fancy. No tags or effects will carry over to the Android app.
* Don't expect any DOC, DOCX, RTF, etc formatted files to look right.
* The character set and line spacings are all you can really depend on.
* Use extended characters at your own risk. Some display, some don't.

LIT is not built for fancy formatting. Keep it basic and you'll do okay.

Every story I've ever submitted was in RTF. What have you noticed being problematic about RTF?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Every story I've ever submitted was in RTF. What have you noticed being problematic about RTF?

'Twas my rtf files that had my buggered up html italics, that I never got to the bottom off - multiple edit passes, the html looked okay, but for some reason it didn't convert. I don't do italics now, so problem solved - but I have to assume something was hidden away inside the file. I still draft in rtf, it's become a habit.

 

[yukonnights]

'Twas my rtf files that had my buggered up html italics, that I never got to the bottom off - multiple edit passes, the html looked okay, but for some reason it didn't convert. I don't do italics now, so problem solved - but I have to assume something was hidden away inside the file. I still draft in rtf, it's become a habit.

Thanks EB. I've never done any special formatting, maybe that's why I've been unscathed.

 

[Hypoxia]

How to make your submission look as you wish:

I omitted a point. In whatever format -- and I much prefer vanilla text with HTML tags I carefully add myself -- preview the fucking piece before hitting the Submit button. Ensure your pretty tricks haven't gone astray. The preview won't show paging, but the rest should be pretty apparent.

 

[SimonDoom]

I draft in .doc format, convert to .rtf for submission, scan once last time after conversion, and submit. I've never had a problem. Of course, I don't do any special formatting -- no italics, no boldface, etc. The App doesn't recognize any special formatting, so I write in a way that will ensure the story looks the same to everyone who reads it regardless of platform.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I omitted a point. In whatever format -- and I much prefer vanilla text with HTML tags I carefully add myself -- preview the fucking piece before hitting the Submit button. Ensure your pretty tricks haven't gone astray. The preview won't show paging, but the rest should be pretty apparent.

That’s what I do. Write it in word, insert all my own HTML tags and I stick to bold, italics and centering, copy as text into the submission panel and then preview. Any mistakes have all been me rushing the preview. Never had a problem other than my own mistakes.

 

[KeithD]

That’s what I do. Write it in word, insert all my own HTML tags and I stick to bold, italics and centering, copy as text into the submission panel and then preview. Any mistakes have all been me rushing the preview. Never had a problem other than my own mistakes.

This is what I do, minimizing the use of bold to almost never and never centering--the Web site style is flush left of everything and I have no need for extra bells and whistles beyond the site style.

 

[gordo12]

I write & submit in .doc 93-97 with bold, italics and I used to use centering for the POV shifts. *********

The centering kept coming out left justified so I just started writing that way.

Never had a problem yet...other than one comma that seemed to have wandered over a few spaces. Never did check it, too trivial.

 

[ChloeTzang]

This is what I do, minimizing the use of bold to almost never and never centering--the Web site style is flush left of everything and I have no need for extra bells and whistles beyond the site style.

I center breaks and song lyrics and that’s almost always it. Bold is for headers only and I use italics for authors notes, song lyrics and the occasional word emphasis. Almost all my boo boos are with HTML tags around those where I missed a < or a >