1 Topic by ray ashton (edited by ray ashton 2019-11-21 08:14:32)

Topic: Connecting chapters (Part Deux)

After an absence of more than ten years (my muse left me after our youngest son passed away), I came back here to have a rather complex manuscript reviewed. Honesty demands I mention having received several excellent x-rays, but those are far and few between. Mostly I hear the excuse for not reading and/or commenting that the chapters aren't 'connected,'  so I get an occasional drive-by review of, say, chapter seven, along with comments such as” I don't understand what's going on here,' or 'Who are these people?' sometimes getting such BS in exchange for doling out what I think are thoughtful and respectful reviews, several of which remain without a 'Thank You' note.

Various folks have pointed out to me how to do it, and I kindly thank them, but it's obviously too late now, as re-formatting requires the same amount of points as used for the original posts (the 9 chapters I posted required some hard-earned 85 points), and that ain't happening.

I fail to understand why posting a new chapter of a certain manuscript, while the software recognizes the title, and in addition specifically asks for a chapter number, even without clicking the storied  'Add A Chapter' button, isn't automatically 'connected,' but instead treated as yet another new book. But, hey, maybe I'm too stoopid. But I do know that the chapters are easily retrievable with just 2 clicks: 'View Public Profile,' and 'Portfolio,' to find all these 'books' in numerical chapter order. That is if one wants to make an effort.

Don't like the story of The Great Divide, or think my writing sucks? Fine. No problem. So it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut  has repeatedly pointed out. But to become a victim of what I consider a useless complication: not fine. Also, to monthly lay out 8 or 9 bucks, or whatever it is, to have my intelligence offended isn't exactly cricket, either. I can go to Walmart 24/7, and have that done for free.

In short: I'm disgusted and deeply disappointed.

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Re: Connecting chapters (Part Deux)

Approach Sol. He may be willing to get them joined up for you as a one-time thing.

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3 Reply by Bill Weldon (edited by Bill Weldon 2019-11-22 05:30:31)

Re: Connecting chapters (Part Deux)

ray ashton wrote:

After an absence of more than ten years (my muse left me after our youngest son passed away), I came back here to have a rather complex manuscript reviewed. Honesty demands I mention having received several excellent x-rays, but those are far and few between. Mostly I hear the excuse for not reading and/or commenting that the chapters aren't 'connected,'  so I get an occasional drive-by review of, say, chapter seven, along with comments such as” I don't understand what's going on here,' or 'Who are these people?' sometimes getting such BS in exchange for doling out what I think are thoughtful and respectful reviews, several of which remain without a 'Thank You' note.

Various folks have pointed out to me how to do it, and I kindly thank them, but it's obviously too late now, as re-formatting requires the same amount of points as used for the original posts (the 9 chapters I posted required some hard-earned 85 points), and that ain't happening.

I fail to understand why posting a new chapter of a certain manuscript, while the software recognizes the title, and in addition specifically asks for a chapter number, even without clicking the storied  'Add A Chapter' button, isn't automatically 'connected,' but instead treated as yet another new book. But, hey, maybe I'm too stoopid. But I do know that the chapters are easily retrievable with just 2 clicks: 'View Public Profile,' and 'Portfolio,' to find all these 'books' in numerical chapter order. That is if one wants to make an effort.

Don't like the story of The Great Divide, or think my writing sucks? Fine. No problem. So it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut  has repeatedly pointed out. But to become a victim of what I consider a useless complication: not fine. Also, to monthly lay out 8 or 9 bucks, or whatever it is, to have my intelligence offended isn't exactly cricket, either. I can go to Walmart 24/7, and have that done for free.

In short: I'm disgusted and deeply disappointed.

If you don’t like an individual’s reviews, block them.
If you can’t figure out how to operate the website, read the help page. If you still can’t figure it out, ask for Sol’s help.
If you don’t like how the website works, talk to Sol

“ Various folks have pointed out to me how to do it, and I kindly thank them, but it's obviously too late now”

Actually, people pointed this out to you when you posted your second chapter as a “book” - you acknowledged it then and refused to address the problem at the time, or any of the many other times it was pointed out.  So your lamentations and rant after posting 9 “chapters” as “books” is clearly falling on deaf ears.   It doesn’t sound like “stoopidity” to me, but rather belligerence and whining.  (But I could be wrong.)

If you’re just generally discontented, I don’t think the forum will help you.  Try Walmart (24/7).
Hope that helps.  Good luck

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