The Earth Day 2011 Contest Support Thread

[SuperHeroRalph]

I'm not a betting dawg, but I've been down this road before with a stranger, a newbie, suddenly popping up from out of nowhere to win the contest.

They can never just sit silently, in the way that I do and have done for so long. Always they must show their hand by making the same modest kind of posts.

I'd like to congratulate MarlowBunny for winning the Earth Day contest and just in time for Easter, too.

Good job.

 

[Owlwhisper]

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[Darkniciad]

And will story formatting accept degree symbols?

Lit's processing of special characters generated by word processing is iffy. Using the special character codes is more reliable, but still not perfect.

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That's the one for degrees, if you don't have a chart bookmarked.

Either one may show up perfectly when you preview, and then do something unexpected ( show up as double hyphens instead of an em dash, which is why I use the special character code for all of those in my stories ) or fail completely ( the diamond suit special character code works in preview, but appears as a blank square in final posting )

You sort of have to gamble

 

[LunaEroticaMystica]

I'm about to submit a manuscript to a publisher. However, I am getting differing word counts from each program I use. The difference is significant enough that it could change which category I submit to. MS Word, Open Office, and a Word Count Tool all have the count between 500 and 1000 word difference. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Owlwhisper]

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[SuperHeroRalph]

I'm about to submit a manuscript to a publisher. However, I am getting differing word counts from each program I use. The difference is significant enough that it could change which category I submit to. MS Word, Open Office, and a Word Count Tool all have the count between 500 and 1000 word difference. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

You can do it the old fashion way, before they had word processors and just typewriters.

Take your finger, it doesn't matter which one and...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I'm about to submit a manuscript to a publisher. However, I am getting differing word counts from each program I use. The difference is significant enough that it could change which category I submit to. MS Word, Open Office, and a Word Count Tool all have the count between 500 and 1000 word difference. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

If you google word count difference, you should get some suggestions. I've run into this problem before, and it usually has to do with how various programs deal with em-dashes, ellipses, hyphenated words, curly vs. non-curly quotes, etc.

I don't know who you are submitting to or if you know their preferred software, but I usually stick with word. [shrugs] I've never run into a problem, even when I've been over the line with other software.

If you're really concerned, you can always take some em-dash, ellipse, and quote-heavy text, run it through a couple of programs, and then do a manual count to see which is "correct". It should ease your mind.

 

[Darkniciad]

Thanks, that's good to know. Codes for the dashes would be useful to have. I think the last time I submitted a story I cut and pasted dashes from the MS Windows Character Map utility and it seemed to work. But, as they say in superfasttalk at the end of investment commercials, "Past performance does not guarantee or imply future success."

After reading a guide written by Weird Harold I had to laugh at the train wreck I was setting up in my current story. I have used groups of left carets to divide scenes. I bet that would give the HTML interpreter some issues.

Anything that's actually on your keyboard should process without problem. It's only when you start getting into special characters that don't appear on the keys that you have a problem. The processor automatically strips anything that could be HTML code ( outside allowed tags ), which should prevent the left carets from causing any problems.

The code for an em dash is:

—

You're exactly right about past results and future success. I simply uploaded plain .txt for the longest time with em dashes generated by my word processor, and they came through fine. Then one day, they started coming out as double hyphens instead.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

Just two more weeks to the start of the Earth Day contest.

How is everyone doing with their stories?

My first story is a Loving Wives story. God help me (lol).

My second story is an incest story. That's always a crowd pleaser.

I may post an exhibitionist/voyeur as my third story. It's a hot one.

I have one in Anal, another in Bondage, and a good one in Celebrity.

I'm still working on my Erotic Coupling story. That seems to be a story looking for an ending.

The Erotic Horror story is pretty good, if I write so myself.

I really like the story that I wrote for the Novel category. It's about, what else, a dog.

The Toys & Mastubation story is a cute one, too.

I'm saving the best for last, a Mature story.

Good luck to everyone in the contest.

 

[DG Hear]

Just two more weeks to the start of the Earth Day contest.

How is everyone doing with their stories?

Good luck to everyone in the contest.

I just have one story, it's been ready. Not sure what category, I'll have to recheck it. Not elegible to win. Just have fun entering and of course the fast post.

By the way, like your doggie A/V

 

[PrincessErin]

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[SuperHeroRalph]

I just have one story, it's been ready. Not sure what category, I'll have to recheck it. Not elegible to win. Just have fun entering and of course the fast post.

By the way, like your doggie A/V

That's my dog, Ralph, when he was a puppy.

I'm a bit nervous about the Loving Wives category, as all my entries in that category are opposite of what readers want to read.

They prefer reading about real loving wives and I prefer writing about no so loving wives, cheating wives and bitchy wives.

The loving wives read more like a romance story, whereas the not so loving wives stories have more tension.

What do you think?

 

[DG Hear]

That's my dog, Ralph, when he was a puppy.

I'm a bit nervous about the Loving Wives category, as all my entries in that category are opposite of what readers want to read.

They prefer reading about real loving wives and I prefer writing about no so loving wives, cheating wives and bitchy wives.

The loving wives read more like a romance story, whereas the not so loving wives stories have more tension.

What do you think?

Write what you feel. That's what I do in LW. No matter which way you go some readers will be dissapointed. One thing for sure, no cuckolds, need retrabution for a cheating spouse. Lots of emotional people in that catagory, should get lots of votes and comments, both bad and good. Best of luck to you.
DG

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

Write what you feel. That's what I do in LW. No matter which way you go some readers will be dissapointed. One thing for sure, no cuckolds, need retrabution for a cheating spouse. Lots of emotional people in that catagory, should get lots of votes and comments, both bad and good. Best of luck to you.
DG

Retribution?

Oh, oh.

Uhm, if he accidentally, kind of, kills her for cheating on him with a man 20 years younger than he is, would that be considered...retribution (lol)?

 

[TxRad]

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[Darkniciad]

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Stealing bandwidth from a government website -- not once, but twice. Genius move, scouries.

*facepalm*

 

[LunaEroticaMystica]

Quick question: How long does it typically take for a story to be removed from Literotica?

A few more paragraphs on my story. But, my focus has been elsewhere. I have been working on and honing a blurb for an editorial pitch for a publisher. I never would have guessed that a simple 2 paragraph blurb would consume so much time and energy! It's exciting though!

I hope everyone's finding the inspiration and/or drive for their stories. Can't wait to read them. Hope, I'll be joining you. Can't promise though.

I'm on facebook now and have a Blog (links below). If you haven't already, come check me out and join.

 

[Darkniciad]

Quick question: How long does it typically take for a story to be removed from Literotica?

As with an edit, the standard length of time is whatever the current turnaround for a normal submission is.

That being said, I think Laurel jumps through the queue sometimes and takes care of edits/deletes as a way to rest her eyes and brain ( while still being productive ) during the daily story approval process, because edits/deletes seem to happen more quickly than normal story approval quite frequently.

 

[LunaEroticaMystica]

OK. Was just curious. Because that one had been viewed 20 times already since I request the removal. Thanks, Dark. How's the story coming along?

 

[Darkniciad]

OK. Was just curious. Because that one had been viewed 20 times already since I request the removal. Thanks, Dark. How's the story coming along?

Working on it in the other window. I think I finally have all the elements in place, and I actually feel good about the thing

The number of views showing up pre-approval lately has been pretty high. I think there may be some background processes that are incrementing that counter without any actual eyes falling on it.

Or, it could be a sign of story-stealing spiders set up for automatic retrieval. Even though the front end of the website has changed to show a text based url, the old Lit ID# format is still present. Someone could easily write a program to scan Lit for the incremental numbers and hork stories as soon as there was more text than the "waiting for moderator approval" notification.

 

[LunaEroticaMystica]

I wouldn't doubt that, but shh...not so loud! EEK!

Glad you are feeling good about it. I am with mine. But it's so damn slow going, I'm starting to get ticked off. *LOL*

 

[TxRad]

Working on it in the other window. I think I finally have all the elements in place, and I actually feel good about the thing

The number of views showing up pre-approval lately has been pretty high. I think there may be some background processes that are incrementing that counter without any actual eyes falling on it.

Or, it could be a sign of story-stealing spiders set up for automatic retrieval. Even though the front end of the website has changed to show a text based url, the old Lit ID# format is still present. Someone could easily write a program to scan Lit for the incremental numbers and hork stories as soon as there was more text than the "waiting for moderator approval" notification.

I noticed that. i posted a new story yesterday when i got back from vacation. It had 60 views this morning.

 

[Darkniciad]

I noticed that. i posted a new story yesterday when i got back from vacation. It had 60 views this morning.

Absolutely sounds more like external sources than internal processes. Think a quick PM to Manu is in order?

 

[TxRad]

Absolutely sounds more like external sources than internal processes. Think a quick PM to Manu is in order?

Sounds like a good idea. he may have a bot that he doesn't know about. You can word it better so shot one off to him.