WeirdHarold's Comprehensive, concise and clear information on how to resubmit a story

[glynndah]

I need to resubmit a story because it was garbled in cyberspace. How do I do that without changing the title? When I resubmitted it the first time for another reason, the submission page said I'd already submitted that story and it was refused. I changed the title slightly, resubmitted it with a note in the editor's box and it was rejected because of garbling. This is the same story that was returned with lines throughout it when you edited it. Is the cosmos trying to tell me something? Is this story doomed? Anyway, how do I resubmit it without changing the title again? Thanks!

 

[LadyCibelle]

I need to resubmit a story because it was garbled in cyberspace. How do I do that without changing the title? When I resubmitted it the first time for another reason, the submission page said I'd already submitted that story and it was refused. I changed the title slightly, resubmitted it with a note in the editor's box and it was rejected because of garbling. This is the same story that was returned with lines throughout it when you edited it. Is the cosmos trying to tell me something? Is this story doomed? Anyway, how do I resubmit it without changing the title again? Thanks!

Send it back to me.....the version I sent you with all those lines you had mentionned...I want to see it.

 

[glynndah]

I'm sorry but I cannot send a copy of your edited piece back to you because it seems to have fallen into a black hole somewhere in cyberspace. However, I did resubmit the story with an additional O in "Oooh, Baby!" and the submission faeries seemed to like that. I really couldn't figure out your comments on my short story because of my own computer ignorance, but I'm sure they were helpful nontheless. Just knowing someone else was out there really helped.

 

[Weird Harold]

I need to resubmit a story because it was garbled in cyberspace. How do I do that without changing the title?

To resubmit and edited or revised version of a story that has already been approved, add the word EDITED to the title and summarize the changes made in the comments fieldof the submision form. If you've made more than minor changes to the story to correct puctuation, grammar or typos, use the word REVISED instead.

If your story is still pending, you can click the pending link and select the existing text and paste the new text over it and then click the submit button at the bottom of the preview.

Just exactly what sort of "garbling" happened?

Both MS Word and Wordperfect have problems translating "special characters" into text or HTML via a C&P operation. Things like "Smart Quotes" (the kind that look like sixes and nines), em-dashes and ellipses that are a single character, accented characters, copyright or trademark symbols, and many foreign currency identifiers, are encoded by Full Featured word processors in ways that Text and HTML formats can't duplicate.

Also, the way Lit coverts paragraph marks causes misplaced paragraph breaks to show up in odd places as broken sentences and "white space." If your word processer isn't capable and configured to show invisible characters like paragraph breaks, Manual Line Breaks, Tab characters, and extra spaces, you can get seemngly odd and inconsistent "errors" in your submissions.

I wrote a How To Essay that provides a method for most people to find and correct "special character" problems before submitting. It's more of a training aid than something that should be required for every submission, because once you know what to look for, you shouldn't need to check every story so closely.

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