Hi, John.
Once you edited the new text into the chapter and increment the revision number, you go to the top of the home page and select Portfolio in the right-hand dropdown., Find your story and in the right-hand drop-down of that row, select "Publish Setup". Review the setup and even if you don't change anything, Click the Update Publish Settings button. That should repost your story, deduct points, and put it at the top of the "new stuff" column.
~Tom
Thanks for the tip, Gacela. I've tried Dragon once before, but it had a hard time keeping up with my speech patterns. I understand that it can be trained, but that it takes a while. Besides, "How to Train your Dragon" is already taken. :-)
~Tom
II could probably do that, Max, but my desktop keyboard/mouse platform is set up right-handed and it won't lend itself to left-handed use. It has a sunken keyboard pukka and a small platform to the right for the mousepad/mouse.
~Tom
In an effort to avoid any "whatever happened to old whatsisname?" posts, I'd just like to say that I am slowly recovering. The operative word is "slowly". Six weeks ago, I somehow damaged a ligament in my right wrist. This allowed the connection between wristbone and armbone to jump around in and out of the socket provided for it (apologies for the technical nomenclature). It didn't start out painful, but then developed into a continual pain to even bend it. So, since that time, I have been wearing an extremely uncomfortable Velco-snugged, torture device designed by the Marquis deSade that keeps me from bending it. This, of course, means I cannot mouse very well (no, not pounce on rodents - you're thinking of a cat) and typing is a decidedly one-handed affair fraught with typos, erasures (or backspacers, actually) until I manage to whip whatever I'm doing into shape.
So, if I fail to respond within a reasonable amount of time, I apologize in advance.
~Tom
Happy to hear that, JP. It's a great story.
~Tom
I definitely agree, Dirk. I can find posts I made on my books that I would rather not have out there for all to view because of the spoiler potential. Who wants to read a book that has a huge spoiler visible?
~Tom
I agree, Janet. There are quite a few methods of describing what you described - and they don't involve fingers or inches. The detail is unnecessary and more likely to be included in a "skin" book than anything approaching literary. Sounds as if the author was going for a faux-English flavor to the novel and didn't quite make it. If a person doesn't know much about the aetting/era they are writing into, then either research the heck out of it, or try another venue.
~Tom
Merry Christmas! Hope everyone ate too much junk food and stayed up too late playing with electronic train sets! Hugs and kisses!
Funnily enough, Rebecca, I did get an upgrade to my Trainz simulator. I am now hard at work on a 14 Km Japanese route, the Kishigawa line.
Happy holidays.
~Tom
You and yours have a good holidays time, too, Janet. My house is stuffed to the eaves with family. They're sleeping air mattresses on the floor. Wonderful times with both my kids and their kids.
~Tom
Welcome back, Max. Nice to see you again.
~Tom
This is not a bug, Sol, just an observation. Following my last round of ophthalmology treatment, I find that trying to read how many points I have on my home page is nearly impossible. The choice of grey background and white font (all the rest is in blue, which contrasts nicely) makes it hard to read the numbers. Could that be changed to blue also?
~Tom
How about "The 13 Clocks". In that one, the Duke killed and gutted his victims and fed them to his geese. Is that what you meant? I read that so long ago, I certainly can't remember an exact quote, though.
~Tom
I don't know if anyone else has found this gem, but I love it. The amount of names that can be found here is virtually unlimited.
http://fantasynamegenerators.com/
~Tom
I would like to add my wishes to everyone for a happy holiday filled with NFL and a good meal.
Max, every time I hear someone say they'd like to "make a toast", I flash on me getting buried under pieces of toast at a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening.
Take care everyone.
~Tom
I have the same problem, DIrk, but with Japanese long characters as well as all the Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana characters. My temporary solution is to take a picture of the character, word or phrase and reduce it to the size of my font and insert it into the text as a picture. It will work, but it won't enlarge or reduce if the reader uses the zoom controls for the text.
It is a stopgap, and it is quite labor-intensive, but it does work.
~Tom
At the moment, Sol has a lot on his plate. He (and others, presumably) are working on changes to the Booksie site. This isn't a pressing thing here - annoying, yes - but not pressing.
~Tom
I'm not convinced that is strictly true. But I do find myself sometimes coming up with less than 5 comments on a short chapter. Then I'm faced with either trying to put them into a standard review or finding other things to highlight that aren't necessary to make the 5. That isn't really fair to the author.
What I would like to see is something like a ratio of necessary comments to length of the post. If it is under, say, 500 words, then only 2 comments, but if over 2500, then perhaps 6 or 7 comments to make the points. That way, you could still get a fixed amount of points for a post, but only have to come up with 2 to N comments.
~Tom
Someone has to take a look at the word-count routines. I just posted a short review (of, it said, 13 words). When it showed up under the post, it reported 9 words.
Something is definitely wrong, Sol.
~Tom
I just did another regular review. The edit box counted 80 words. When posted, I saw it contained 76 words. Somehow, 4 words are being miscounted (and dropped) when a review is posted. But, I looked for what was missing and could not find anything. I suspect some hidden stuff (like a CR or LF) is being dropped.
~Tom
I could try, Janet. Keep a good copy of it.
EDIT: I just looked over my options and found that it will Export a PDF easily. But I'm having a problem locating the Import function.
~Tom
I have OpenOffice installed on Windows. It will allow importing and exporting from/to PDF files. Just import the whole thing, change what you want and then export it back out to a new PDF. OpenOffice is free and a heck of an editing/drawing/spreadsheet/math suite.
~Tom
Nope. This was a straight review, typed all at once and then I clicked the Post button. Before i did that, I was told I had entered 55 words. Then, when I clicked the button, I didn't see the "you received ... points" banner so I looked at the review. It said I had posted 50 points exactly. Apparently, you have to get MORE than 50 words to get points. That, I can live with. It is having the word count drop from 55 to 50 for no reason that bothers me.
EDIT: I've solved the copy/paste problem. What you have to do after you paste is add a single carriage return. Then the words are counted once more and you will have what you need. I do that automatically if I keep track of comments using a text file.
~Tom
I just got bitten by the "miscounted words" bug. I provided a regular review that told me I had 55 words. When I posted it, I received NO points and when I went to the review, it showed 50 words. So, if I had even 50 words, why not the points?
~Tom
I also just deleted a quickee request from this person.
~Tom
The Weavers produced a song called: "Martian to Pretoria" (or something like that). 
~Tom
