I've gradually worked out this BC publishing thing (I think). Although I've got another story here, someone else was kind enough to navigate the process for me last time, for which I am now much more grateful than I ever was before.
Anyway, I tried publishing the first chapter of my new novel A Turn of the Cards, but it turns out my chapters seem to be too long for the site (I get repeated 503s), so I'm going to post each section of the chapter instead. I aim to post a section every 2-3 days or so. We'll see how that goes.
It's a moderately long novel, a little over 130,000 words, which is only 20% of the length of Atlas Shrugged, and about the same length as Wuthering Heights, and I can promise at least moderately more enjoyment than reading Ayn Rand, and maybe 20% of the quality of Emily Bronte.
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Maximum word size for a BCTS document
should be near 50,000 max per chapter or story submission. It actually can handle a little higher but not by much. The cache that handles the submitting/ preview crashes out and garbles stuff any higher.
Most authors do lower word count chapter submissions as it spreads more of their material over time giving them some backup room for submitting while they write more. Also, limit your submissions to 1 chapter of a specific story per day and total submissions per day to 3 of varying stories (or chapters of different stories). That is out of courtesy for your neighboring authors ^^ We only have a total of 50 available slots for story teasers on the front page and if you divide that up for the authors that post, that can speed the story teaser queue right down the front page rather fast. So keep an eye on posting frequency too ^^
When you post a new chapter of an existing story, the previous chapter of that same story gets demoted from the front page to free up a slot for someone else.
If you need any assistance, feel free to contact me, Erin, or Cat Lochley :)
Sephrena
Thanks Sephrena
Thank you. :)
I managed to post the intro and Ch.1 - although I didn't label the first bit intro, because I seem to be irrideemably pretentious. Obviously they weren't too long, although when I tried to post them as one long thing, on Thanksgiving, the upload consistently failed. So maybe the chapter-by-chapter thing will work okay. :)
Or maybe it was fighting with the family over politics and drinking too much wine.
In any case, thanks for the advice. Hopefully things will go smoothly from here. :)
not as think as i smart i am
No, there are no file limits at BC
There are no file size limits on BC. What your problem is, is that your connection is so slow that the connection times out while uploading. Or you had the misfortune to upload at one of the times during the day that the software had to do a database reset.
BC will actually handle inconveniently large file sizes, inconvenient in that people with fast connections can upload stories in one chunk that are longer than people with slow connections can easily download. There is one file on BC, I shit you not, that is 600,000 words long. Even I have trouble downloading it. :)
I recommend not uploading chapters longer than about 8-10,000 words or so because that is about as much as people will read in one go anyway and almost everyone can easily download ones that size. But some recent posts have been as much as 20,000 words or more.
So no, it was not a file size limit you ran into on BC. You could have asked what the problem was before guessing. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Thanks Erin
Yeah, it's probably my sucky VPN connection. Now that I've scared everyone off with the size of the story, it might not be an issue.
And yes, I should always ask first - my bad. Thanks for your help. :)
not as think as i smart i am
130k scary?
130k is a pleasant afternoons jaunt for me. I'm used to novels pushing 400k as a norm, being primarily a sf and fantasy reader.
Abigail Drew.
Rebecca, I for one
am loking forward to reading A Turn of the Cards
May Your Light Forever Shine