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Posting Your Story
May 27th, 2010 at 3:27pm
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Okay, you have a story (or a new chapter to an older one) and want to post it here.

1: Register for the forum.

2: Go to the section your story (or art) belongs in - Fanfic, Nfanfic or Productions.

3: Click on to start a new thread.

4: Choose a Message Icon (I prefer the Lamp Icon for stories so everyone can tell it's a story.)

5: Fill in the Subject Line - The title of the story and chapter number. For instance 'The Smallville Connection' would have a subject line 'The Smallville Connection 1/1'. This tells readers that it is a stand alone story (Chapter 1 of a 1 chapter story.) If you don't know how long a story is going to turn out use '1/?'.

6: Paste your chapter into the Message Space.
The board does not automatically convert Word or HTML into the format the board uses so you will need to find your bold or italics sections and highlight them manually. - Bold, - Italic. You can also put images in this way as well. .

Make sure your paragraphs are double spaced - the Board does not automatically convert paragraph marks into <p>   </p> either.

Just below the Message Space you will see a character count. (50,000 characters is about 12 pages in 12 pt type in Word.) If you come close to that maximum, I recommend you split your post into 2 parts (part 2 as a reply in the thread). If you have done a lot of editing to get the character count down HIT the Refresh Button on your browser to make sure nothing is hiding in the Message Space. The previous version of the board program had issues this way so I figure it's better safe than sorry.

After a few postings this WILL become second nature.

Have fun. Smiley
  

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Re: Posting Your Story
Reply #1 - Sep 27th, 2010 at 5:56pm
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It has been suggested that authors put a note at the beginning of the story if that story veers appreciably from accepted canon as defined by what was
1: aired (or on the DVD)
2: in a UFO script.

Also please note if there is the death of a major character. (Or if that would spoil the surprise in the story, you may PM the Admin and it will be added to the Wham warning thread.)

The current list of UFO scripts available on the Internet can be found at: http://www.ufoseries.com/scripts/index.html
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