Cainanite (imported) wrote: Fri May 17, 2013 8:32 pm
Yeah. I think I have made my decision.
From now on I will simply reject those stories that are not following submission guidelines. Too bad. So sad.
Frankly, it will mean less work for me to do. Sadly, that may also mean less stories getting published too. Right now I will give new authors the benefit of the doubt, and will do the extra work of writing tags for them, story descriptions, removing all those extra lines between paragraphs, removing all the bad code because they didn't send it in the right format, and practically rewriting their submissions from scratch because they typed the story into the body of the email instead of just sending me the attachment.
It has occurred to me that some authors might have not been using attachments because they do not know what attachments are or they do not know how to send an attachment. I will try to explain what attachments are and how to use them.
An attachment is separate from an email message but attached to it. Think of the email message as an SUV and the attachment as a trailer the SUV is towing. An email message can only contain text or html. An attachment can contain any type of file. The attachment can be a word processing file (.doc or .odt), or any file type (.exe, .avi .jpg etc.) The trailer an SUV tows can contain horses, furniture, or water etc.
To send your story as an attachment, first save it as a .doc or .odt file.
In yahoo mail you can send an attachment by clicking on the paperclip icon which is below and to the left of the word "subject."
In Hushmail you can send an attachment by clicking on the word "attachment" which is below and to the right of the word "subject."
In Gmail you can send an attachment by clicking on the phrase "Attach a file" which is below the place for the subject.
In Forte Agent you can send an attachment by clicking on the word "attachment" which is just above the email text box.
These are all the programs and systems that I know about but I think most should work like these do.