http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Recent Posts en Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:12:31 +0000 http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4541 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:02:34 +0000 Chris Poirier 4541@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Is it showing up in your list when you look at the submissions page? The older listings were done manually, and so may not have been associated with your account. If so, let me know, and I'll associate it.</p> <p>Chris. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4540 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:54:11 +0000 Rhapsody In Prose 4540@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I've been here months and I still can't change mine. It's a big secret. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4539 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:12:58 +0000 NiSp 4539@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>mr poirier? hehehe! that's silly rabbit or some such ;D<br /> welcome to the wondrous world of online serials, HM... </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4538 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:14:51 +0000 Chris Poirier 4538@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>It'll get done when we have time.</p> <p>Chris. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4537 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:56:27 +0000 H-M Brown 4537@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Nevertheless, I got my submission through, and that's what counts. Now I have another problem. That big box with the '?' mark that happens to be link to my Group Page on Fictionaut in the Arcana Magi Listing Page.</p> <p>How do I get the picture of the web page up like everyone else here?</p> <p>I'm sorry for being such a newbie, but this is my first venture in posting my serialized stories on the Internet, and there so many features that I still have yet to fully understand. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4536 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:47:51 +0000 Chris Poirier 4536@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I can assure you that logging off did not change the status of the record. ;-) If it did, nothing would ever get submitted. Nope, something else must have happened.</p> <p>Chris. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4535 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:28:05 +0000 H-M Brown 4535@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>No need to apologize. I believed that when I logged off after clicking 'Submit For Approval', I may have stopped the submission from going through. So this time, I stayed logged on and now it went through. Now I can start spreading the word to my readers for support.</p> <p>Thank you for time and help, Mr. Poirier.</p> <p>I look forward to reading everyone's review, good and bad. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4534 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:10:41 +0000 Chris Poirier 4534@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>It's showing as Awaiting Editor now, but it looks like you updated it this morning. If it says "Draft", it means nobody is looking at it. I can't comment on the change in status -- there's nothing in the system that could cause it, that I know of. Sorry about the inconvenience.</p> <p>Chris. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/submission-problems#post-4533 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:43:07 +0000 H-M Brown 4533@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hello, I have a question regarding submission status.</p> <p>Last week, I submitted my web novel Arcana Magi and it's status said 'Awaiting Editor Attention' when I hit 'Submit for Approval'. I logged out afterwards assuming that it was going through and when I returned the next day it's status was in 'Draft', which I assumed meant that a reviewer was reading my story and writing a review about it, but now I don't think that was what 'Draft' meant. </p> <p>So today I just read the forum topic 'Submission timescales' and the poster mentioned about the 'Draft' Status being stuck and I noticed that my submission was still on 'Draft'. Now I fear that when I logged out I didn't give the 'Awaiting Editor Attention' portion of the status to go through and may have stopped the submission prematurely. So I resent the submission and got the 'Awaiting Editor Attention' Status again. </p> <p>Was this okay? How long will it take for 'Awaiting Editor Attention' to change Status? Will it change to another word other than 'Draft'?</p> <p>I don't want to accidentaly pile up the reviewers submission pages with multiple resends of my story.</p> <p>Thank you for your time and help. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/place-to-add-link-to-your-web-fiction#post-4532 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:55:53 +0000 allantmichaels 4532@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Just added my info. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/%e2%80%9cpanflick-progress%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%94-how-my-online-memoir-fiction-is-doing#post-4531 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:05:35 +0000 S. D. Youngren 4531@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Believe it or not, I am currently reading this and planning to review it. I will say that I like it so far, though as I've only managed the time as yet to get through Book One, I shouldn't really be talking about it yet. Later. First read, then review, then more comments. . . if you like.</p> <p>Yes, WFG is largely a science fiction/fantasy kinda place. But I've seen appreciative reviews and good ratings for other sorts of stories as well. Anyway, I think that if a story is well-written and the themes are fairly universal, it can find readers even among those who "don't usually read that sort of thing."</p> <p>I will be back when I've finished reading. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/help-a-newbie-out#post-4530 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:02:22 +0000 Leradny 4530@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>All right then, thank you very much! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/place-to-add-link-to-your-web-fiction#post-4529 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:01:23 +0000 acetachyon 4529@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Nice. Added my info.</p> <p>I'll be checking your story out, too. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/help-a-newbie-out#post-4528 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:07:45 +0000 Chris Poirier 4528@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hi Leradny,</p> <p>You can find the submission form here: <a href="http://webfictionguide.com/about/submissions/" rel="nofollow">http://webfictionguide.com/about/submissions/</a> Everything you need to know should be answered on that page. Just log in and fill out the form to submit your listing. </p> <p>Chris.</p> <p>(And yes, most of our listings are hosted on blogs.) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/help-a-newbie-out#post-4527 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:35:57 +0000 Leradny 4527@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I've got a novel I want to put up here, but the submission process is a tad bewildering what with the lack of FAQs. Is it all right if the address submitted is a weblog of some sort? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/technical-issue-with-rating-at-25-stars#post-4526 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:35:40 +0000 Fiona Gregory 4526@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I found this happened too. Something about 2.5 ... </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4525 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:51:09 +0000 Shutsumon 4525@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Site: <a title="online fantasy stories by Becka Sutton" href="http://firebird-fiction.com/">Firebird Fiction</a></p> <p>Runs on wordpress and uses a free template (<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/blueprint-theme">Blueprint</a>) because you could fit what I know about graphic design on the back of a postage stamp and even that exceeds what I know of php (which could fit on the head of a pin without disloging the dancing angels).</p> <p>I did mess with the css to make it the colours I like rather than the default green.</p> <p>The gorgeous masthead I paid for. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/%e2%80%9cpanflick-progress%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%94-how-my-online-memoir-fiction-is-doing#post-4524 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:48:17 +0000 Stephen C Rose 4524@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Here's a brief piece on the progress of a work of memoir fiction. </p> <p>I am not sure such works have much resonance here. </p> <p><a href="http://stephencrose.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/panflick-progress-how-my-online-memoir-fiction-is-doing/" rel="nofollow">http://stephencrose.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/panflick-progress-how-my-online-memoir-fiction-is-doing/</a></p> <p>Best, S </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4523 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:03:57 +0000 Lizzy 4523@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>It is more about having good design sense than powerful tools when it comes to how your site LOOKS, but obviously the tools are more important when you're determining how you want your site to behave. Some tools have nicer templates available to download than others (specifically, I think there are some gorgeous wordpress templates out there, but the blogger defaults are kind of boring). </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4522 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:13:14 +0000 HouseEros 4522@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I just use Gedit and GIMP</p> <p>But ya, Jim is correct...it is more the designer than the tools. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/introducing-characters#post-4521 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:38:04 +0000 Rhapsody In Prose 4521@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>It's tough to keep more than a few characters in my mind as a reader, so the fact that you already have eight means that I'd be overwhelmed no matter when you introduced them. I'd suggest is eliminating a couple so that you don't have to wonder when to introduce them. But if you must have all those characters, the plot comes first. Do whatever is faithful to the plot and the pacing. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/zomg-i-just-found-where-the-readers-hang-out/page/2#post-4520 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:18:46 +0000 nomesque 4520@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <blockquote><p>Eh, this isn't really webfiction. It's for people wanting FINISHED stories, i.e. novels, short stories, and the like that are ebooks. Just browse through the forums and you'll it plain as day. This is just another wrong turn down Optimism Lane.</p> <p>See, we're all still GUESSING that they'd like webfiction, and we're HOPING that there's some people that like both who hang out there, but there's no hard data that supports it. It's not even probable. It's another maybe. </p></blockquote> <p>Huh? Are you aware that the first post in this thread was made 5 months ago? Has it occurred to you that perhaps some of the people on THIS forum might have been participating on THAT forum for months, and have something more than guesses and hopes to go on? </p> <p>And are you seriously telling me that you can't imagine any writer of serial fiction eventually finishing a serial and turning into an ebook (or five), and hence finding an ebook-readers' forum a useful resource? *boggle* </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4519 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:15:41 +0000 Jim Zoetewey 4519@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>For coding: Jedit (a great text editor), Eclipse (an IDE with a lot of options), Komposer (it's free and decent for editing html, but insanely bad for coding due to an annoying tendency to move things around)<br /> Graphics: Photoshop, the Gimp (depending on whether I'm on Windows or FreeBSD)<br /> CMS: Wordpress, (though I've been experimenting with Drupal lately)</p> <p>Unfortunately, the thing that makes a website look good isn't really the tools. It's more whether you've got a basic background in graphic design, allowing you to use the tools in a way that doesn't make the reader's eyes bleed.</p> <p>A good beginning might be "The Non-designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams (not the comedian). </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/depressed-when-its-all-over#post-4518 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:19:30 +0000 Braveluck 4518@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I completely understand. When I finish writing a novel, my sense of accomplishment lasts about 1 day and then I just feel like I've stuffed the whole story in a bottle and tossed it into the sea. The only cure is to start writing something else. I believe one can only tinker and edit a story for so long before it must be published and called done. I do like the companionship of always having a novel to work on, knowing that the task is always there for me when I need to use creative energy. When a novel is finished, I do miss working on it. If you are having similar feelings it must mean that you really put a lot of your heart in the writing and it's probably good. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4517 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:28:00 +0000 Dash 4517@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p><a href="http://www.skipthebudgie.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.skipthebudgie.org</a><br /> Drupal, my own theme..., coding (when needed) usually with notepad++ </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4516 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:48:00 +0000 amber simmons 4516@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Site: <a href="http://www.loveandwartx.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.loveandwartx.com</a><br /> Runs on Wordpress. Coded in BBEdit. Laid out in Illustrator. Graphics done with Illustrator and Photoshop. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4515 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:08:12 +0000 Tahjir 4515@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p><a href="http://tahjir.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tahjir.blogspot.com/</a><br /> Tools: Blogger, Photoshop</p> <p>I use a heavily-edited custom theme on Blogger, and Photoshop for 90% of the graphics. Mainly because site design terrifies me. I haven't even touched that stuff since text editors in grade school. &gt;.&gt; </p> <p>I actually prefer Blogger, as I can mess around with it as much as I want, and when I do something stupid and make the entire site go white or something (which happens a lot more that I will admit) I can just plug in a back-up file. Back when I was starting I did check out Wordpress first, but blogger just seemed more newbie-friendly. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4514 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:13:37 +0000 Lizzy 4514@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I designed <a href="http://www.guardiansofelidi.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardiansofelidi.com</a> to work with Drupal. The graphics were created in Photoshop, and I use Dreamweaver for the CSS/PHP I've had to do to beat Drupal into submission. This layout is heavily customized because I have a past as a graphic designer and am allergic to default templates even if they're prettier than anything I can do.</p> <p>If I had to do it all over again, I might have saved myself the headache and gone with WordPress or Blogger- especially now that blogger allows pages. Now that I've got a grip on Drupal though, I am enjoying the power and flexibility of it. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4513 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:34:31 +0000 MeiLin Miranda 4513@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Site: <a href="http://www.DigitalNovelists.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.DigitalNovelists.com</a> and its subsites; <a href="http://www.MeiLinMiranda.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.MeiLinMiranda.com</a><br /> Tool: Drupal </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4512 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:11:15 +0000 Rhapsody In Prose 4512@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Site: <a href="http://www.scintilliarium.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.scintilliarium.com</a><br /> Tool: Various text editors (mostly TextEdit), Fireworks/Photoshop (for graphics). </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/zomg-i-just-found-where-the-readers-hang-out#post-4511 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:07:11 +0000 Rhapsody In Prose 4511@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Eh, this isn't really webfiction. It's for people wanting FINISHED stories, i.e. novels, short stories, and the like that are ebooks. Just browse through the forums and you'll it plain as day. This is just another wrong turn down Optimism Lane. </p> <p>See, we're all still GUESSING that they'd like webfiction, and we're HOPING that there's some people that like both who hang out there, but there's no hard data that supports it. It's not even probable. It's another maybe. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4510 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:57:03 +0000 Christopher Clarke 4510@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I generally use a plain text editor or IDE with syntax highlighting. I mainly use gEdit on Linux and e - text editor on Windows. I also like Eclipse but find it a bit overkill for most projects. Any graphics are usually made with Photoshop or openCanvas. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4509 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:44:41 +0000 Drayco84 4509@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>For anyone that's come by and looked at my site: <a href="http://dragonoftwilight.net" rel="nofollow">http://dragonoftwilight.net</a>, you'll notice one thing... IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP! (Then again, maybe it's just me and I'm using "author vision", where one's own works look like sins against the natural order, despite your best attempts at trying to make something decent and/or beautiful.) Now, I USED to use KompoZer, but I've recently switched over to SeaMonkey Composer, which isn't all that different. </p> <p>So, to the main point, please list your site and what you used to make it. Something like...</p> <p>Site: <a href="http://dragonoftwilight.net" rel="nofollow">http://dragonoftwilight.net</a><br /> Tool: SeaMonkey </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/introducing-characters#post-4507 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:34:06 +0000 Braveluck 4507@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>You certainly have tough decisions. Probably any approach could succeed if you right it well, but that is the challenge.</p> <p>In an attempt to be helpful, I'll give my thoughts. I wouldn't rush and lump all the introductions together. No matter how brilliantly written, it probably won't allow each character to set in the minds of readers. Give people a bit of chance to get to know someone (without being draggy of course) and then add another into the mix. Maybe like how a good piece of music adds more instruments as it builds.</p> <p>Now, you could do a grouping of two characters. For example, they are buddies already and hang out together. They could be introduced at the same time. Two new characters is not overwhelming. </p> <p>There's also the nice technique of you have almost the full cast together except for one, and the final one gets introduced at a crucial time, which will give impact and make the character memorable. </p> <p>These are just thoughts of course. Maybe you'll hate them, but I hope they are useful for analyzing your options. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/place-to-add-link-to-your-web-fiction#post-4506 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:28:00 +0000 Dash 4506@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Excellent, just added mine! put yours into my rss story feeds, looking good. </p>