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When I type on 'Note Pad' with the correct format and paste I lose the format. Which media should I be using to keep the format. I have a 10 chapter 'hot wife, interracial, voyeur' story to upload. How?
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Firstly great to hear you've got a tale to upload, always good to have new content to read.
As for uploading for the love of the Goddess dont upload all 10 at once or the mod quake will be terrifying.
I find run your tale through a spell checker in word , then grammarly then proof read it.
When its completely perfect, none of mine are theres always a few bits I missed, then copy it into Lush.
I found I needed to reformat the paragraphs anyway so using the Lush editor means you can use preview to check how it all looks.
When you're done, click publish and then away the mods.
If you're not a gold member it can take a week or so to get processed.
The backlog goes nuts during competition season as that gets the attention.
I'm new here myself but happy to help if I can.
Best of luck getting your first story published. I'm sure it will be a proper firecracker.
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Oooh the writers group does have an editor or two in it so if you need help to whip that prose into shape we can help.
As for uploading for the love of the Goddess dont upload all 10 at once or the mod quake will be terrifying.
I find run your tale through a spell checker in word , then grammarly then proof read it.
When its completely perfect, none of mine are theres always a few bits I missed, then copy it into Lush.
I found I needed to reformat the paragraphs anyway so using the Lush editor means you can use preview to check how it all looks.
When you're done, click publish and then away the mods.
If you're not a gold member it can take a week or so to get processed.
The backlog goes nuts during competition season as that gets the attention.
I'm new here myself but happy to help if I can.
Best of luck getting your first story published. I'm sure it will be a proper firecracker.
Toodles
Oooh the writers group does have an editor or two in it so if you need help to whip that prose into shape we can help.
Whatever was posted is always meant in love and respect never to offend.
I'm also highly likely to have posted this from a phone so there may be typos or odd word changes, auto correct can be a pain.
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I recall having problems with formatting, particularly paragraph spacing. When I pasted my story into the Lush editor, with a blank line between each paragraph, sometimes I would lose the blank lines between the paragraphs, and other times I would get three blank lines between each paragraph rather than one! I'm clearly not the only one - sometimes stories get published with three blank lines between each paragraph, which looks odd and requires a lot of scrolling for the reader. If it's a short story you can fix it manually after pasting, but that's a pain if you've got a long story.
See also this forum thread about this spacing thing https://forum.lushstories.com/yaf_postst74714_Submission-delayformat-issue.aspx
When you paste into the Lush story editor there are three clipboardy thingies that you can use to paste. One is blank, one has a T on it (for plain text) and one has a W (for Word). Sometimes you will also get an extra popup window saying you have to post into there. If you experiment with those three you should, I hope, find one that works for you.
See also this forum thread about this spacing thing https://forum.lushstories.com/yaf_postst74714_Submission-delayformat-issue.aspx
When you paste into the Lush story editor there are three clipboardy thingies that you can use to paste. One is blank, one has a T on it (for plain text) and one has a W (for Word). Sometimes you will also get an extra popup window saying you have to post into there. If you experiment with those three you should, I hope, find one that works for you.
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When I type on 'Note Pad' with the correct format and paste I lose the format. Which media should I be using to keep the format. I have a 10 chapter 'hot wife, interracial, voyeur' story to upload. How?
Notepad? There is bare minimum formatting that you can do with that.
If you have access to a copy of Word you would be better off with that.
For free alternatives I would go with one of the Open Office suites - I use Libre Office.
When you paste into the Lush editor carriage returns automatically give a double line, so I would set up your program to reflect this.
I have Libre paragraph settings at 0.30 cm below paragraph and Line Spacing at 0%.
This way I see the spaces between paragraphs without having to press return twice. When I look at my early entries, I had the double line and then would go through the Lush editor removing all the extra lines.
I would also recommend using Grammarly, but use the import/export function (rather than copy and paste) to retain the formatting.
Once you're there, give it a couple of days and then read it fresh and when happy, into Lush it goes. Make sure to be thorough when checking the preview, you can go from there back to the editor to tidy things up, save it as a draft (you'll find it again in 'My Stories') or you can publish.
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I would also recommend using Grammarly, but use the import/export function (rather than copy and paste) to retain the formatting.
I just used the Grammarly website for the first time; I copied and pasted out of it back into Word and didn't lose the line spaces between paragraphs or the 5-character first line indents. But I didn't see the import and export functions, so I'll have to look for those the next time I try Grammarly.
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I actually must correct myself. I decided to try grammarly on a 10,000-word story that I've been writing. When I went to create an account on the website, it turns out that I already had one - from five years ago when I wrote the first few paragraphs of this story. I'd completely forgotten about that. And from all the things Grammarly flagged this time through, I obviously didn't learn much from it.
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Personally, I had a lot of problems with the Grammarly desktop app (at least on a Mac), and do not recommend it. Their browser plug-in is much lighter weight than the app. and won’t drag down your system. Using the plug-in does mean you have to be in the story editing window in Lush itself, which might mean having to double-enter any corrections in both Lush and on your desktop, but you’re probably saving Grammarly for final checks right before submission anyway.
By the way, Wordpad is miles ahead of Notepad (as long as you turn on word wrap), if you don’t have MS Office, and lets you save as Rich Text Format, which preserves formatting like bold, italics, centering, etc.
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LibreOffice is open source, i.e. free and always will be, and does everything I need and then some. Definitely better than Notepad or Wordpad. It's a fully featured office suite but no money paid and none of MS's feature bloat or pushing of things like Copilot.
As for grammar checking, I don't normally use it and take it with a grain of salt if I do when writing fiction. Sometimes being ungrammatical fits a mood or character, esp. in a first person narrative or in dialogue. And in general, I find it tends to be more rigid than I like, esp. if you use style-checking features.
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