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I haven't tested it on this site, but on some sites, you can include an ampersand by preceding it with a backslash "\", which means "take the next character as a literal."

Bill

I've had no problems posting from either Open Office or Word (depending on which computer I write on - Linux or Wondoze). The formatting always stays the same from source to destination. Where a person runs into trouble is MODIFYING text already posted with edits inside TNBWs edit panel. Formatting can, and most like will, go wrong doing that.

If I decide to alter anything at all in a chapter post, I highlight ALL in the source document, hit COPY, then move to TNBW and highlight ALL inside the edit panel. Then, choose PASTE. This will completely replace everything you've posted previously with the new version, and thus preserve everything as you want it. I rely somewhat heavily on italics and, as you say, they are not kept using Notepad. This process also preserves the complete copy of your source document should you ever need to recover it from TNBW for whatever reason.

Bill

If you're on Windows 10, try going to "Backup and Restore". It could very well have backed up your latest works, but you have to tell it to retrieve them by doing a "restore". I think there is an option to restore to somewhere else other than the original location. That way you don't overwrite your newer stuff.

Using Windows 10, you can set up a task in the task manager to do an immediate backup whenever you insert an external USB drive.

I have my Linux machine set to do an incremental backup every 4 hours to an internal 2Tb drive.

Bill

Most publishers won't mind if you've workshopped your stories if you've published them here. This is a peer-to-peer review site, and as such, isn't classified as public. Members pay to be here, so it makes it a private site in the eyes of publishers and such. However, it is a good idea, once you get it edited and down to what you want to publish, take the story down from here before you submit it. Some publishers require you do so before they will accept it.

Bill

Welcome, Bernstein. Romantic suspense sounds interesting. I'll have to give it a read.

Bill

Here's an update: The owner of the site just PMed me on Facebook, telling me he'd removed the pirated novel. The link now goes to a "Not Available" page. He was very nice about it and once I sent him the first chapter from an archived copy from 2013, he acknowledged I was the original author and removed the offender.

Bill

It's not all gloom and doom, Dirk. The funny part is that they hijacked a very early version, filled with grammatical errors and gaping plot holes. I took the original down a few years ago and just now am re-editing it and publishing the new version. it doesn't resemble the earlier version hardly at all. The mistake was using MY name on the pirated version. Since they did that, they can't even claim my eventual published novel is a copy of THEIR book. The site seems to be a legitimate site so at the very least they should stop selling it and take it down from their site. I don't particularly care if Okadabooks censures the "author". Banning him from their site would be nice though.

Bill

How about a huge philosophical white space I call Schrödinger's whitespace? Doesn't the very act of printing "This space intentionally left blank" defy the statement? Quite a few novels have blank pages at the end, but are they really blank, or was there something supposed to be printed there?

Bill

Thanks, Sol. If I allow my web site to gather many unnecessary files, the fees will escalate rapidly. I go through and prune files once every month. I just took a look at my back messages. I had 24 pages just in the Received queue. It would be double that if you included the Sent queue. I can pare them down to just three pages, and maybe not even that much. That's a heck of a lot of storage saved.

Bill

Like you, I have found trying to delete old messages 10 at a time is terribly tedious, not to mention unnecessary. The little check box at the top left which is SUPPOSED to check all the messages on a page actually checks every one of them, BUT hitting the delete button will NOT work. I was told long ago that the only way to mass delete messages was ten at a time--no more. This is crazy.

I do agree with Vern, but having all those stacked up only costs Sol money in storage fees. The 'delete all on the page' function should be fixed.

Bill