I click on 'Publish' and the warning says "Must be under 1500 words"
Is there a glitch somewhere?
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Just as an aside - my Scrivener shows 1500 words exactly, G-Docs shows 1496 words
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That's exactly what I do, Liz. Probably the reason for the count difference.
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I'm on a Windows machine, m'dear, so do not have a CMD key ;)
I'll wait for Gav or one of his minions to come back
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Have you tried pasting it in from TextEdit using Cmd + Shift + V (instead of just Cmd + V)?
Might be worth a shot, that is a format-free, plain text paste option.
Other than that, we'll have to see what Gav comes back with.
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I've given the rest of the year off to my minions, so this is left to me to answer.
I did spot an error with the word counts, so I fixed this one. I've also added the number of words the system *thinks* is in your story, so we can verify this with other sources.
Counting words, why is it so hard?
Well, the words on the page isnt exactly what the server sees. By the time the browser has added in its own formatting tags (different on each browser, paragraph, bold, etc) I get this horrible tag soup to work with. Now I have to clean the text of html, then count the number of white space groups. Theory is a word is always separated by white space (space, tab, crlf) apart from the last one in the document.
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*Swoons* Keep talking nerdy, Gav. It does special things to my lady bits.![]()
Hello! I wrote out my Christmas comp story, I submitted it. The moderator cleared it. But I'd forgotten to click the enter competition button! I know you aren't allowed to re-submit old stories for competitions. But I did write this story for this competition, I just neglected to enter it. Can anything be done, please? Thank you!
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Hello! I wrote out my Christmas comp story, I submitted it. The moderator cleared it. But I'd forgotten to click the enter competition button! I know you aren't allowed to re-submit old stories for competitions. But I did write this story for this competition, I just neglected to enter it. Can anything be done, please? Thank you!
Hello. I am sending you a private message now.
I have a new story out! Wish You Were Here A teasing sub may I have pushed too far, but the punishment is oh so sweet.
If you haven't already, please check out my story with leftlingula. A husband and wife rediscovered each other and It all started with one simple word...
Nightshade Part 1 & Nightshade: Part 2