Story Writing Tech Problem

[Mrtenant]

Hello everyone.

This may seem painfully obvious to some of you, others, maybe not so much.


I haven't written a story here in many years. I have sent one in recently that was just now returned to me.

At least that is what it says.

I wrote it in MS Word and the message says I am to retrieve it- opening the file and make whatever adjustments.
Sounds good to me.

I try to access the word doc they are sending to me via the Lit page that shows its availability
So I click on the document and get a 404 error. Nothing else seems to work. How do I move forward?



I clicked that paperclip and get the 404,

I don't think I should hit the remove file button, or should I?

This is the screen I get after I click on the document shown above

 

[ElectricBlue]

Use your own copy of the file to make whatever changes are needed.

Resubmissions, after a story has been rejected and fixed, are like Edits, you reload the complete file with all the changes in it. So, remove the existing file by clicking on the right, then upload your new version, add a Note to the Editor summarising the changes made, and Submit.

 

[Mrtenant]

Use your own copy of the file to make whatever changes are needed.

Resubmissions, after a story has been rejected and fixed, are like Edits, you reload the complete file with all the changes in it. So, remove the existing file by clicking on the right, then upload your new version, add a Note to the Editor summarising the changes made, and Submit.

Sounds good thank you, one problem,

I don't have anything that says anything about recommended changes. the note I got from Lit said that recommendations are on the returned Word Doc, which, unless I am much mistaken seems to only be available on that one screen. And I get a 404 when trying to access it. So I have no idea what the recommendations are.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Ah, I see your problem. I've never heard of the reject notifications being done like that, usually it's one of a number of generic rejection notices in the rejection message.

My suggestion, to break it loose, is to copy paste your content into the returned submission page box, hit Preview, make sure it looks okay (the Preview shows the content in Lit format), add the Note saying what you've just said here, and Submit.

Sounds like a processing glitch of some sort, rather than a rejection as such. Doing it this way should hopefully reset its place in the queue.

 

[Mrtenant]

Ah, I see your problem. I've never heard of the reject notifications being done like that, usually it's one of a number of generic rejection notices in the rejection message.

My suggestion, to break it loose, is to copy paste your content into the returned submission page box, hit Preview, make sure it looks okay (the Preview shows the content in Lit format), add the Note saying what you've just said here, and Submit.

Sounds like a processing glitch of some sort, rather than a rejection as such. Doing it this way should hopefully reset its place in the queue.

Thank you. I considered doing that and likely will do that.

It appears that Lit format excludes italics? Is that correct?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thank you. I considered doing that and likely will do that.

It appears that Lit format excludes italics? Is that correct?

You can do italics, bold, underline, centre, but need to code the html in your text. <i>text</i>.

Be warned, if html goes wrong, it can go spectacularly wrong, especially if it crosses a Lit page break. Make sure your close any html at the end of every paragraph, because if it rolls over a page break, the whole next page can go wrong. As I discovered the hard way, after thinking I was clever, using html. I keep it to an absolute minimum now, so it can be thoroughly checked.

 

[Mrtenant]

You can do italics, bold, underline, centre, but need to code the html in your text. <i>text</i>.

Be warned, if html goes wrong, it can go spectacularly wrong, especially if it crosses a Lit page break. Make sure your close any html at the end of every paragraph, because if it rolls over a page break, the whole next page can go wrong. As I discovered the hard way, after thinking I was clever, using html. I keep it to an absolute minimum now, so it can be thoroughly checked.

Ahhh good to know. Thank you so much!