Story Submissions and Difficulties

[D. Mattanthas]

Hoy hoy.

I'm working on a story submission - a romance, actually - and I cannot find the "submit" section people keep talking about. Where can I find this?

I'm getting annoyed, largely because I want to get this in, and I don't know how.

Help!!!

D.

 

[Guest]

On the main page, if you click on the stories link it will take you to the story index page. At the top of that page you will see a Log In link. If you click on that, it will take you to your author's area (may be prompted to log in first... name and pass is same as forums). From there, you need to click on the submissions button and then submit work. Hope this helps.

 

[minsue]

Go to the main index page and click "log in"

From there, you should have a link to submit.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Also, read the FAQs section of Lit. Welcome!

 

[cantdog]

I hope you didn't indent paragraphs. I did on my first submission, and what a mess the story was.

cantdog

 

[R. Richard]

Just to beat it to death, there are two types of submissions when you Submit. You need to chose a Story or Poetry submission as appropriate.

 

[D. Mattanthas]

Thanks all. I've submitted a wopping 12 pages (Word 97) of story in three chapters. More is on its way....

I hope it gets approved. I'm working on a novella called "The Rolls and the Pipe", involving a journalist (a very foxy journalist) and an academic millionaire/military guy (uhhh....think Triple H but slightly shorter and pudgier....with more hair)

Submitted as a "story", Novel-novella, no indented paragraphs. I write academic papers, and indenting paragraphs in a paper that's not a manuscript is slightly awkward for me. I think my 'puter does it for me....

Meh.

Thanks.

D.

 

[Bridget69]

Has anyone else noticed that the submission link on the site's main menu has disappeared?

 

[D. Mattanthas]

Actually, username Cloudy gave me a perfect step by step - the FAQs explanation should be replaced.....

 

[Whisky7up]

Thanks all. I've submitted a wopping 12 pages (Word 97) of story in three chapters. More is on its way....

I hope it gets approved.

And if it doesn't, it will probably be a technical reason...sometimes the paras don't come out properly even if what you submit is good.
My latest story was initially rejected for 'para' reasons even though the layout was exactly the same as earlier stories posted with no problems.

But a Lit editor will help if that's the problem.

 

[D. Mattanthas]

Paragraph issues? I'm not sure I follow. I didn't indent (didn't seem that there was any need to), and I kept it to the margins in Word97....

If you want a preview (I'd like feedback too, actually), let me know via PM and I'll email you a copy.

 

[Whisky7up]

The Lit software puts a line break between paras. If you put a break between your paras, it seems to cause a problem.
Even if you used the preview facility and it looks fine...there may still be a problem. Dunno why...it just happens sometimes and it's not consistent.

 

[D. Mattanthas]

Ah.

 

[Weird Harold]

The Lit software puts a line break between paras. If you put a break between your paras, it seems to cause a problem.
Even if you used the preview facility and it looks fine...there may still be a problem. Dunno why...it just happens sometimes and it's not consistent.

Actually, Lit's story formatting script replaces each paragrah break in MS Word 97 with a <br> (manual line break in MSWord).

That means that you can't use the paragraph formatting to put white space between paragraphs, you need to use a double paragraph break to separate paragraphs.

If you don't use a double paragrapgh break, Lit's formatting script turns your story into a single long paragraph.

I'vewritten a How To essay on checking your stories formatting that duplicates what Lit's formatting script does that includes instructions for formatting the Italics and Bold, if any, in your story so you can check for problems with smart quotes and other special charcters that don't translate from Word to HTML.

The essay is here: http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=57781