I'm a little confused about saving stories as a draft - it seems to work a bit differently from another site I post on.
The story seems to be listed as "submitted." I assume however that the file is not going to be reviewed by a moderator at that stage.
The other site has a clearer demarcation between draft and submission status.
Thank you.
"the Great God (snicker)" - James 'Bear' Llewellyn
I'm still a novice at this, but I noticed the once submitted you can't edit it. Also there's a red box at the top of the page saying it's been sent to a moderator.
Presumably if yours hasn't got the box and can be edited then you are okay.
I hope you sussed out how this works by now, but will present an answer for any new authors wondering about it.
When you click Submit Story, you get a form to fill in with various information, including a place for the text of the story itself. If you click Continue at the bottom, it will show you what the story will look like. At the bottom of that view are three buttons:
Publish Story says you're completely done. A moderator will take a look at it and, if it is acceptable, it will appear on the website.
Edit Story gets you back to the form so you can continue to work on it.
Save Draft will create an entry in your My Stories list and save the current contents of the form. If you don't do this (or Publish Story) before your browser session ends, you will lose whatever work you have done.
So after editing anything using the form, be sure to click Continue at the bottom and Save Draft on the next page to preserve it for later.
Once the story is in your My Stories list, you can find it there to edit it further.
When your story is perfect, you edit it, check that you have the title, tags, one-liner, link, etc., all filled in, then click Continue, then click Publish Story. At that point, you can no longer edit it until a moderator reviews it.
The entry in My Stories may be a little confusing. Here's how you tell which is which.
A Saved Draft says No under Published, and has a title that is text, not a link. It does show a Date Submitted, but this is just the date it was saved. Saved Drafts are visible only to you.
When you Publish a story it will first say Not Verified under Published. The title will be a link, so you can see what it will look like once it is verified. Published stories are visible only to moderators until they are verified.
After a moderator has verified your story, it will say Yes under Published and will also get a Display Date saying when it will be visible on the website.
Thank you; sorry it took me a while to get back to this. Your information was very helpful.
