How do I upload a story?

[Guest GothamKnight1992]

I have no idea how to do that.

[Ezriee]

Adding a story:

1) Access your author's panel by going to member's tools and Author panel.

2) Look on the menu to your left at the top, {make SURE you select the correct area of the site. It automatically defualts to Anime, but you can choose from that drop down menu and select 'GO') select option that says 'ADD Story' under story functions.

3) Select your Title, input your summary, make sure to put your disclaimer, you MUST state that you don't own the fandom, using the fandom name, and state that you don't make any money. EXAMPLE: I do not own final fantasy 7 and make no money from writing this story. KEEP IN MIND, ORIGINAL STORIES AND STORIES ABOUT CELEBRITIES HAVE THEIR OWN FORMAT FOR THE DISCLAIMERS.

4) In the first drop down menu that says CATEGORY, select the appropriate category

5) In the second drop down menu, select the appropriate subcategory Example: Het Male/Female, Male/Male, Female/Female, etc

6) Select your appropriate story codes.

7) If you wish for other people to be able to add a chapter to your story, change the no to a yes in the third drop down, if not, leave it as is.

8) You then choose the title, then either use Text Area (copy/paste) your chapter to the text area (thats my personal preference) or upload a saved document. Keep in mind that some coding will cause portions of your story to disappear, especially if saved in html format (Which is why I choose to copy/paste)

9) Enter the reCaptcha codes and press NEXT

10) upload or copy paste your story into the text area and hit PREVIEW

11) Review the information on the next page, If correct, select PUBLISH

12) CHECK YOUR STORY TO MAKE SURE IT IS FORMATTED CORRECTLY.

If there are parts missing, or some other issue, what I do is copy the text from ms word or open office into notepad to try and get rid of any coding that may be causing the problem.

If you're trying to do bold, italics or underlines, you'll want to use tags such as <b>bold </b>, <i>italics</i> <u>underline</u>

It all seems like a lot, but after you do it for the first time, its really easy. Hope this helps.

[Guest HornyWolf]

Has the process changed since this was posted or am I just deeply confused? If not then can you explain it for dummies?

[DemonGoddess]

This forum has "how to" for most story functions.