A basic guide on uploading stories to all the archives listed below.
HTML is an important part of uploading a story. Below are the three HTML tags that are commonly used:
<b> bold </b> will result in a bold word.
<i> italics </i> will result in a italic word.
<u> underline </u> will result in a underline word.
There are several ways to upload stories.
Copy and Paste: (The simplest and less problematic way.)
- Write the story in a standard word processing program, i.e. Wordpad, MS Word, or WordPerfect.
- Make sure the paragraphs and dialogues are double spaced (double carriage returns).
- Use the bold/italic underline feature within the word processing program.
- Save the story.
- Put the desired html tags where you want the effect to start; then place the ending tag where you want the effect to end.
- Some authors like to keep two drafts of the story: one without the html tags and another with the html tags in case they ever need it in the future. A way to save both and tell the difference is by adding '-html' at the end of the file when saving it. This goes before the .txt/.rtf/.doc file extension. Do not use .html this will save the file as an html file. Ex: chapter1.doc (Original draft.) chapter1-html.doc (The HTML tags draft.)
- Highlight the complete story push Control+C on the keyboard or from Edit > Copy to copy the story into memory.
- Go to the archive put the information needed to upload the story, click in the text box area next to 'Story Text (text)' and push Control+V to paste the story into the box.
- Click on Preview.
- Look over the story; make sure the formatting is correct and then click on Add Story so the Admins can assess the story.
HTML:
If an author knows HTML, the following steps should be followed:
- Write the story in a word processing program.
- Put the bold/italics/underline marks in.
- Put the < br > breaks in as need. Do NOT use < p > tags, or the story will be rejected automatically.
- Click on the Browse button, locate the file and push OK.
- To upload the story click on Preview.
- The story here will upload and give a preview of the story. The spacing will be too much, but clicking on Preview again at the bottom of the page will fix the problem.
- Once the formatting is correct, click on Add Story for the Admins to assess.
Text: (Causes the most problems.)
Authors who use a word processing program and want to upload in a text file format, please remember that without having wordwrap on and pushing 'enter' to move to the next line will show a break when uploading to the archive.
- Write the story in a standard word processing program, i.e. Wordpad, MS Word, or WordPerfect.
- Make sure the paragraphs and dialogues are double spaced (double carriage returns).
- Use the bold/italic/underline feature within the word processing program.
- Save the story.
- Put the desired html tags where you want the effect to start; then place the ending tag where you want the effect to end.
- Some authors like to keep two drafts of the story: one without the html tags and another with the html tags in case they ever need it in the future. A way to save both and tell the difference is by adding '-html' at the end of the file when saving it. (Ex: storyname.txt and storyname-html.txt) This goes before the .txt/.rtf/.doc file extension. Do not use .html this will save the file as an html file.
- Click on the Browse button, locate the file and push OK.
- To upload the story click on Preview.
- The story here will upload and give a preview of the story. The spacing will be too much, but clicking on Preview again at the bottom of the page will fix the problem.
- Check the formatting; if correct, click on Add Story for Admins to assess.
Authors please do not try to upload any *.doc files or HTML saved files from MS Word or WordPerfect, it will only cause errors and result in automatic rejection. |
