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The Arcade => Flash Contest VI => Completed Contests => Flash Fiction Contest VI - Podcastle => Topic started by: Ocicat on April 03, 2021, 09:23:22 PM

Title: Notes on formatting
Post by: Ocicat on April 03, 2021, 09:23:22 PM

Due to the nature of the forums, I need to re-format every story by hand. This means putting in line and paragraph breaks, as well as italics and underlining, etc. Inevitably I will miss some. So if you see a story where what should be two paragraphs appear as one, don't blame the author, blame me. If you are the author, send me a PM and I'll fix it to match your submitted story.

Title: Re: Notes on formatting
Post by: Frank Evans on April 04, 2021, 06:01:57 PM

For future contests, is there anything we can do to help with the formatting of our stories and save the moderators having to do every story?

Title: Re: Notes on formatting
Post by: aleks on April 05, 2021, 02:45:28 AM

That's a ton of work, Ocicat. Thanks so much for your efforts in running the contest.

Title: Re: Notes on formatting
Post by: Ocicat on April 05, 2021, 04:33:23 AM

Quote from: Frank Evans on April 04, 2021, 06:01:57 PM

For future contests, is there anything we can do to help with the formatting of our stories and save the moderators having to do every story?

Some stories are formatted so it's easy. Best is when there are two linebreaks between every paragraph, and no italics or bolds to look for. But there is no way that all the authors are going to do that, so every one still needs to be checked over by hand after the copy / paste.