So you know how to post a story: Login | Publish | Document Manger | Upload to get the story into your profile, then Login | Publish | New Story and then select the chapter, etc.

Adding a chapter isn't that much harder: Login | Public | Document Manager | Upload to get the next chapter into your profile, then Login | Publish | My Stories | [story's name] | Content/Chapters | Add Chapter, then select the new chapter.

do you have to have a separate document in the Document Manager for this?

Yep. Each chapter is a separate document in the Document Manager. However, once it's been posted to your story, you don't have to keep it in the Document Manager anymore.

what you posted isn't exactly the problem I've been having, but it's similar. I haven't broken my story into chapters yet, but how do I edit what I've already published on the site without tearing the entire thing down and posting a new story?

So you know how to publish a story (otherwise you wouldn't be having this hassle.) Publish = My Stories = the 'Edit' link next to your story. Now you should see a line of links starting with 'Story Edit '. Click on 'Content/Chapters' - it doesn't matter if your story doesn't have any chapter, FP will consider it 'chapter 1'. Click on the link entitled 'exp' next to the (one and only) 'chapter' you wish to edit. FP will return "Chapter exported to Document Manager as Export: (your title)". Now go to the document manager, open that document, and edit to your heart's content. When you're done, come back to the 'Content/Chapters' page. At the bottom, you'll see 'Replace Chapter'. Select the (one and only) chapter on the left, and select the 'Export: (your title)' document on the right. Click on replace, and (maybe) wait 5 minutes. It sometimes happens right away. If it doesn't, go and look at someone else's writing, then come back and re-load your story.

thank you very much!

quite welcome.

I've done all of this but whenever I try to upload the document and hit "Submit Document", it doesn't want to take it. Do I need to change the label of the chapter and put (for example) "Twilight 2" instead of the first "Twilight"? Or...am I doing everything wrong? I'm pretty sure there isn't anything wrong with the document itself... Please help!

Well, the possibility exists that these were just chapters named Twilight, but ... nah.

On a tangentially related note, I'm tempted to start posting original work to FF because it's not half-broken all the time.

Well, if you're still having problems, this is what I do:

The files in your Document Manager are completely meaningless after they've been posted as chapters to your stories.

I just use one at random to paste my next chapter into, then attach it to the actual story. You can go to the Document Manager and click 'edit', then nuke the text. Paste in the new one, and it doesn't matter to FP if the file is named 'Twilight 1' and you have chapter 3 in there - when you add it to your story, you can name that chapter anything you want.

Does that make sense?

Editing in the Doc Manager is useless. It truly is. Your best bet is to use a basic HTML editor, such as Kompozer (dot) org.

Copy the contents from the 'edit' Doc Manager window into the 'source' tab of Kompozer, then in the 'design' tab add your paragraph breaks. Because the way Kompozer and FP differ in how they handle italics and bold, that formatting doesn't carry across.

When you're done adding the paragraph breaks, copy the contents of the 'source' tab in Kompozer back into the 'edit' Doc Manager window, overwriting the original version.

what if it doesn't have the my stories option. It says i posted chapter 1 but i cant add chapter 2 to the story without the my stories option right

Same here:(

I just clicked on publish and didn't find the option my stories

Hello guys I've been having a HUGE problem. I'm new here and I'm so confused with all the buttons. I was just wondering how come when I click my story, a "Choose Chapter" button doesn't open up when I have already added a new chapter in. Does this site have a "3 day" waiting time for new members? I don't know if I'm doing it wrong but I've already added a chapter, I just couldn't see it in my story. I tried reading other member's stories and they have chapters just under their story's summary. When I go back to mine, I don't. Help?

Thankyou :)

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