Those of us behind the scenes agree that it is time to start posting some new stories.

Now, there are some problems to overcome, but in the meantime, we are going to try a workaround.

At the moment we do not have a standard submission page, or the mechanism to take anonymous stories. What we can do right now, is take a few stories via e-mail, and manually post them.

We are going to try this with only a few stories to start, and hopefully work out a better system for the future. We are going to attempt to post a few new stories every week.

This is where you come in.

Send me your stories and I'll make sure they are formatted and submitted.

You can send me your stories in .doc (Word format) or .odt (OpenOffice format). I'll edit them, and Talula will submit them to the Fiction Archive.

REMEMBER; Send the story as an attachment to your email. Do not put the story into the text of the email. It is very difficult for me to take stories from an email text format.

Send your submissions to eafictionarchive @ gmail (dot) com and put only EA story in the subject line. (or else it can end up in my spam folder.)

I have no idea how many stories I am going to receive by doing this. If I get overloaded, then it may be a while before you see your story show up. Be patient, and we will see how this works.

Please keep the stories in 12pt type, and single spaced. DO NOT double space your entries. Do not put spaces above or below your paragraphs.

DO use paragraphs. DO use spell-check.

Include your username, so we know who to attribute the story to.

Include a brief description of your story and what it is about. Also, try to include what tags we should add to identify it. Your options are:

Gay:

Bi:

Testicles:

Straight:

TG:

Nullification:

General Warning:

Penectomy:

Minor:

Custom Tag 1:

Custom Tag 2:

Custom Tag 3:

Custom Tag 4:

(The "Custom Tag" allows you to write up to 4 tags that are not already offered as options. example: Clitoridectomy )

I reserve the right to reject any story that isn't up to standards. If you include an email address I can respond to, I will try to tell you why I reject it if I do. (Depending on how many submissions I receive.)

I look forward to getting some new stories back on the site.

PM me if these instructions are not clear.

Cheers,

Cainanite

I'm glad to see you're working on a mechanism to post new materials. I think this will satisfy many of the folks that have been asking where the new material is for the past few months.

I hope it trickles in and you're able to work it into rotation with the older materials. Thanks for all your work on the fiction archive.

Good luck.

--LT

Thank you very much!

I've been writing a lot since I shared my very first submission two days before the site went down last July, and the ratings have really encouraged me, so I have a whole lot of material revved up and rearing to go!

There was a question about how to format paragraphs. We are used to hitting return twice at the end of paragraphs, or hitting tab at the beginning of paragraphs.

Don't do either of those things.

Here is the response I gave;

The software we are using on the back end, automatically adds a space at the beginning and end of each paragraph. If you are hitting return between paragraphs to insert a blank line, the software creates One space at the end of your paragraph, one space at the hard return for the blank line, and one space at the beginning of the next paragraph, resulting in 3 spaces where you only wanted one.

If you do not do a hard return between paragraphs, the software recognizes that, and only adds one space, as it should be.

Hitting the tab key at the beginning of a new paragraph also adds some weird data, that the software does not recognize.

Part of the editing job I have had to do for the old submissions is to remove all those extra lines created by hitting a hard return between paragraphs, and hitting tab at the beginning of new paragraphs. Sometimes the only way I can remove this, is to do it line by line. It takes a very long time.

Do not hit return to create a blank line between paragraphs. Do not hit tab at the beginning of new paragraphs.

Write your paragraph as normal.[Hit ENTER or RETURN once] Write your next paragraph as normal.

doing this;

This is my first paragraph. See how I write it?

This is my second paragraph.

Will result in;

This is my first paragraph. See how I write it?

This is my second paragraph.

If you hit a hard return between them, you'll end up with;

This is my first paragraph. See how I write it?

This is my second paragraph.

Putting a tab in front of a new paragraph adds a weird bit of html code...  . Though I can remove that gibberish globally with my editing software, it's a real pain.

So please, at the end of a paragraph, just hit enter (or return) once, and simply begin your new paragraph. If you want to, you can add an automatic spacing after paragraphs in your word processing software. In OpenOffice, you click on FORMATTING then PARAGRAPH, and increase the spacing between paragraphs. I usually choose .3 cm below paragraphs.

Doing that lets me read my work normally on the screen, or when I print it out, but won't affect anything when I transfer the story into the EA publishing software.

Great news, but i have a question. how are you coming on entering old stories? I still don't see all the stories I have written and were previously posted?

baldwin92 (imported) wrote: Sun May 20, 2012 9:35 am Great news, but i have a question. how are you coming on entering old stories? I still don't see all the stories I have written and were previously posted?

We're still working on the old stories, but it is taking longer than expected.

Cainanite (imported) wrote: Sun May 20, 2012 12:31 am Putting a tab in front of a new paragraph adds a weird bit of html code...  . Though I can remove that gibberish globally with my editing software, it's a real pain.

  means "non-breaking space", which is an instruction to the web browser not to split the line at that point. For example take the sentence:

"Although there was no legislation enforcing the method by which the teens' castrations had to happen, the Alexandria Population Control Shears had become the de facto standard accross Europe."

On my screen, the line break happens in the middle of "de facto". If you instead put (in the html source) "de facto" then "de facto" will be treated as if it was one word and the line break will be between "the" and "de facto", even though there is space for the "de".

In theory, it shouldn't display in any html document and should have no effect when it isn't in the vicinity of a line break. However I don't know what your system does or how it does it, so the practice might be different to the theory.

The same syntax of an ampersand, a string of letters or numbers, and then a semi-colon can be used to display any character. For example, > produces the ">" character and < gives "<", which is useful when you want something like <p> to be displayed rather than interpreted as the html paragraph tag.

On the main subject of this thread however, I'd like to say a big thank you!

Oh, shoot, I just realized that I've been putting tabs into my paragraphs manually... I hope my new submission didn't give you guys too much trouble... I didn't know.

I am happy to hear that the fiction section will be re-starting. I have really missed some of the stories. I have had a story rattling around in my head too. I just might write it one day.

Dave in Cleveland:)

cheetaking243 (imported) wrote: Sun May 20, 2012 5:05 pm Oh, shoot, I just realized that I've been putting tabs into my paragraphs manually... I hope my new submission didn't give you guys too much trouble... I didn't know.

No worries. I was able to remove the extraneous code. It will be fine.

But, yeah, future entries, don't hit tab for paragraph indents.