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Help to upload a story, please.
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Feb 03, 2013 08:11AM
I have just tried to put my first short story up for people to have a look/comment on but I coudn't find a way of uploading it and I don't really want to type it all up again?
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Librarians / Group Leaders please help Tony if you can.I'm not an author Tony, but I think you can upload to Goodreads, Smashwords, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc, in pdf format, then they can convert it to other formats for you.
Unfortunately I don't have PDF. It's taken forever to get a decent version of MSWord so much prefer that if pssible. Thanks!
What version of Word are you using? You should be able to save as a PDF.
Its 2007. There are several saving options. Can't remeber if PDF one of them.
Tony wrote: "Its 2007. There are several saving options. Can't remeber if PDF one of them."I use 2003 which doesn't allow you to save as pdf. I don't know whether 2007 does or not, at least one of the later versions does.
I've changed your thread title to have it reflect your question.Hope that's okay. :)
You should be able to save as a PDF with 2007.
Ok so I convert to PDF but then how do I upload it to Goodreads - there's no browse do dah to find it?Thanks Patti, by the way - more to the point!
Tx
For even more reference, Open Office also supports both MS Word files and features an option to save files as PDF. Also free to download, and my writing program of choice.
Is it resolved?Are you all sorted Tony?
Right going to check if I can do this right now!I will return either crying or elated!
Lol!Good luck!
Be sure to tell us!
BOO HOO!!Got PDF sorted but don't know how to get it from saved to the writing page!
I'm sure a clever person will be along in a minute to help.Which rules me out...
Tony wrote: "BOO HOO!!Got PDF sorted but don't know how to get it from saved to the writing page!"
Can you explain what you mean here?
You've saved your original MSWord doc as a pdf file (on your laptop or pc).
And then you want to get it to the writing page - do you mean the Goodreads writing page?
Hi RobIt is currently saved onto a pen drive but if I need to put it on hard drive its no problem. My poor old pc is slow enough without adding file after file to hard drive so I put all my writing on pens. And yes it is for Goodreads 'my writing' page.
Thanks for any help so far guys - still none the wisaer but recently discovered one of my friends on Goodreads (also a UKAKF member) has published his own stuff so maybe he will help. Keep sending advice tho guys xx.
I'll post a link to this thread in the morning thread, Tony. Hopefully more will see it then.
Can you give us a link to your writing page because I don't think any of us know what you mean at the moment....
I know I don't. But I'm quite used to that feeling.
Goodreads is not really a place to upload stories for people to read. It's more about listing and talking about books/stories published elsewhere. They did used to allow you to upload them, but not sure whether they still offer that service. If you want people to read your story, I would suggest either posting it to a blog if you have one, or if you have an author thread, posting it to that. Hope that helps.
Done it!! First story is on! Just copy & paste from word! woohoo!
Patti (A Fine Pear) wrote: "Yay Tony!"So how do we now see it?
Phew, glad to see that Tony 's problem got solved by all you good people.NEXT!
It is on the creative writing section under Explore. I put it in my writings so in All Writing it should appear somewhere (I hope). If not let me know - back to square one!!
If you go into Creative Writing and search TonyQ it appears! Yay!
