Submissions

[kellyhockey]

I have submitted a few stories and they have been rejected due to me use hard line returns in Word. I have resubmitted using the cut and paste option.

How long do the rejected stories stay on my submission page ?
Once a submission is in can I delete it ?

Thanks...

 

[Vermilion]

I have submitted a few stories and they have been rejected due to me use hard line returns in Word. I have resubmitted using the cut and paste option.

How long do the rejected stories stay on my submission page ?
Once a submission is in can I delete it ?

Thanks...

If you are resubmitting then the accepted version should overwrite the previous rejected version automatically.

Oh, and congratulations on finding a new question for a newbie to ask!

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[kellyhockey]

If you are resubmitting then the accepted version should overwrite the previous rejected version automatically.

Oh, and congratulations on finding a new question for a newbie to ask!

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I am still a newbie...nothing like learning the ropes

 

[Vermilion]

I am still a newbie...nothing like learning the ropes

indeed, but they're normally very dull and all come on asking the same questions
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[cloudy]

indeed, but they're normally very dull and all come on asking the same questions
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At least the ones lately have been polite. I haven't had to bite a single one yet.

 

[Vermilion]

At least the ones lately have been polite. I haven't had to bite a single one yet.

Save your bites for me baby - rooooooooooooooooooar!


Lucky for you that you waited that extra half hour before coming online... I had a crochet question to baffle you with, but I figured it out for myself in the end. Moral of the story: You need to read *all* the way through a pattern before commencing work, otherwise you *will* have to unravel several blocks and re-crochet them...


I love a polite newbie...
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[cloudy]

Save your bites for me baby - rooooooooooooooooooar!


Lucky for you that you waited that extra half hour before coming online... I had a crochet question to baffle you with, but I figured it out for myself in the end. Moral of the story: You need to read *all* the way through a pattern before commencing work, otherwise you *will* have to unravel several blocks and re-crochet them...

If all else fails, read the directions, eh?

I love a polite newbie...

Indeed, but I'm using up my nice quota rather quickly.

 

[Vermilion]

If all else fails, read the directions, eh?

Tis a family saying for me My mum has said it all my life !

Indeed, but I'm using up my nice quota rather quickly.

Stupid, Southern primitive savage.

OK... go nuts

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[Jenny_Jackson]

Kelly, if any writer on Lit tells you they have never had a submission rejected, don't believe them. It happens. Just fix your story and resubmit. Like V said, your submission page will take care of itself. It's a self correcting embarrassment.

 

[glynndah]

A welcome for the little newbie from the good little witch.

While we're on the subject of submission rejects, I have several still up on my submission's page. Is there any way I can remove them? They annoy me. I have enough reminders of rejection in real life. I'd prefer to keep the ones here to a minimum.

Thank you.

 

[tickledkitty]

A welcome for the little newbie from the good little witch.

While we're on the subject of submission rejects, I have several still up on my submission's page. Is there any way I can remove them? They annoy me. I have enough reminders of rejection in real life. I'd prefer to keep the ones here to a minimum.

Thank you.

Yes, as a matter of fact, if you write a flash fic piece they will all disappear automatically, as will your feelings of rejection.

 

[gauchecritic]

Kelly, if any writer on Lit tells you they have never had a submission rejected, don't believe them. It happens. Just fix your story and resubmit. Like V said, your submission page will take care of itself. It's a self correcting embarrassment.

Where's the surprise/shock/frightened smiley? sort of like an upside down grin but not a grimace. I need one really quickly. I've never had a story rejected.

P.S Eyup Kelly

 

[galaxygoddess]

I've never been rejected!


But... I've only posted 3 stories >.>

 

[damppanties]

Kelly, if any writer on Lit tells you they have never had a submission rejected, don't believe them. It happens.

Never been rejected. I feel deprived. Like the eds don't love me or something...

Hi and welcome, Kelly.

 

[kellyhockey]

Thank you all for the kind words...

It figures the first story is in Loving Wives. I figure just jump right and then duck for cover.

Loving Wives seems to be a really tough area to write for.

I hope that everyone has a great weekend...

I must say I am debating about writing stories that have some truth in them (my life) vs pure fiction....

It will take me a while to dtermine how much I want to open myself up.

Last question..why would a new author not be polite. All of you here are providing much needed guidance. You are taking the time out of your day to respond to me. I need you and you really don't need me.

Thanks again.

 

[Sapphire_O]

I have submitted a few stories and they have been rejected due to me use hard line returns in Word.

What does "hard line returns" mean?

I'm working on a story and don't want to commit the same error. Thanks!

 

[gauchecritic]

I need you and you really don't need me.

Thanks again.

I'd really re-think that outlook. Not so much that it goes to your head and you start being all grandiose and uppity. Just that, wherever you are, wherever you visit, whatever room full of people you enter you will always, always be needed. It's a fact of life.

Why?

Because you're not us. You're not them. You are uniquely you.

 

[gauchecritic]

What does "hard line returns" mean?

I'm working on a story and don't want to commit the same error. Thanks!

It's all very technical and Harold is the man when it comes to technical at Lit.*

The reasons for cut'n'pasting into the submissions box instead of uploading a file are that the submissions box is already in Lit format. An uploaded document has to be 'stripped' and 'tagged' before it can be posted at the site. Which is one of the reasons why documents tend to take longer to post.*

A hard line return is when you press that big key on the right of the keyboard, the one with the bent arrow, not the thick straight arrow which is backspace or the outlined up arrow which is upper case the other one the one that you hit when you've finished a line and go onto the next one below without wrapping round (which is a soft return)*

*those places.

(Soft return is a software return whereas hard return is forcing a new line with your fingers on the key.)

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

A hard line return is when you press that big key on the right of the keyboard, the one with the bent arrow, not the thick straight arrow which is backspace or the outlined up arrow which is upper case the other one the one that you hit when you've finished a line and go onto the next one below without wrapping round (which is a soft return)*

Okay Gauche... I knew you were going to get techie on us

 

[glynndah]

Yes, as a matter of fact, if you write a flash fic piece they will all disappear automatically, as will your feelings of rejection.

Liar! Liar! Liar! I've written lots for that thread and I still have those rejections on my submit page.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

The reasons for cut'n'pasting into the submissions box instead of uploading a file are that the submissions box is already in Lit format. An uploaded document has to be 'stripped' and 'tagged' before it can be posted at the site. Which is one of the reasons why documents tend to take longer to post.*

Really? Even if you save the story in plain text format?

 

[Sapphire_O]

It's all very technical and Harold is the man when it comes to technical at Lit.*

The reasons for cut'n'pasting into the submissions box instead of uploading a file are that the submissions box is already in Lit format. An uploaded document has to be 'stripped' and 'tagged' before it can be posted at the site. Which is one of the reasons why documents tend to take longer to post.*

A hard line return is when you press that big key on the right of the keyboard, the one with the bent arrow, not the thick straight arrow which is backspace or the outlined up arrow which is upper case the other one the one that you hit when you've finished a line and go onto the next one below without wrapping round (which is a soft return)*

*those places.

(Soft return is a software return whereas hard return is forcing a new line with your fingers on the key.)

*blink blink* Sooo, they want you to submit it with no blank lines separating paragraphs, but still no indenting? I must be missing something here. I can't c&p because I have itals in the story.

Well, I'm going to send to an editor first, so maybe s/he will tell me if I did it wrong.

 

[Vermilion]

*blink blink* Sooo, they want you to submit it with no blank lines separating paragraphs, but still no indenting? I must be missing something here. I can't c&p because I have itals in the story.

Well, I'm going to send to an editor first, so maybe s/he will tell me if I did it wrong.

you can c&p italics if you put them into HTML first...

eg: if you want italics to be italicised.... then you need to put tags around the word <i>italicised</i>

see?

you can also embolden <b> *****</b>

those are the 2 basics, anyway
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[Sapphire_O]

Ok, so pointy brackets, not square bracket. I can do that.

Thanks Vermillion.

 

[Vermilion]

Ok, so pointy brackets, not square bracket. I can do that.

Thanks Vermillion.

No probs

I got baffled when i first came on the forum here and tried to adjust to square brackets, not pointy!

Good luck
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