I tried to submit a story, but pieces of it disappeared. I just did a simple cut and paste from Word, but a passage disappeared. I deleted the whole story and tried again, and thought it worked because the passage that was gone earlier was there now. Then later I found out another section was missing, so I deleted and resubmitted it again. Every time, some piece of the story gets cut out, and it’s not the same part every time. What’s causing this? How can I keep it from happening?

Hmm. It could be too long. Long pieces have a word cut-off. Check each part of your story is there when it’s pasted into the submission box. It could be a flaw in Word.

Other than that… it could be formatting issues if you’re using any fancy tags.

thanks. guess I’ll try this again. oh, what’s the word count limit?

It could also be an HTML formatting thing. Do the missing passages have any ‘special’ punctuation marks around them?

Not sure about word limit. Over 10,000 is generally a bad idea. Keep it to about a 5000 minimum.

I c/p from Word to Notepad. THEN I c/p to Urbis. Takes care of all incompatibility issues. Except it has been known to scramble some lines if you begin the paragraph/stanza with an empty space or 2, I forget.

I do the notepad thing too—word’s a bugger for weird hidden formatting codes.

I have seen 12,000-odd word pieces kicking about on here, though I dunno how many reviews they get.

I loaded up a 10,000 worder a few weeks ago off Word with no problems, and you should know that Claire cos you reviewed it!!!

As for reviews – 25, then I turned reviews off because it was sucking my life away opening them all.

DickMcR – try copying and pasting in chunks.

It was scrambling lines actually, like jebozid said. I thought it was deleting stuff, because I’d see a line out of place & think that the surrounding stuff had been erased. the story was about 3,000 words. Ultimately I got it to work by posting small chunks from a notepad file, one at a time. good advice, thanks, everyone!
-Dick

bravis… was it really that long? I was so caught up in it, you see.

I think a little longer and you would have lost pages. OK then, there’s probably a 15,000 word limit (or thereabouts). But unless the piece is exceptional, no one’s going to read one fifth of a novel on screen.

Glad you got it to work Dick McR. Now it better be good.

<gulp!> y-yes, ma’am! If it ain’t good, I’ll keep at it til it gets there.