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Publish Your Stories Online
here at Writing to Inspire




Do you enjoy writing and wonder how to publish your stories online? If so, you'll love this new addition to the Writing to Inspire website.

You can now submit stories to be included on this website. It will only take minutes to do, and you need only basic computer skills and absolutely no website building knowledge to do it. Yes, it really is that simple.

Even better, not only will your writing have it's own webpage that you can send your family and writing friends to, but you'll also have writing online that can be found by publishers. There's also the opportunity for readers to leave comments, and, if you choose, to post your work anonymously using a 'pen name'.

You can also submit a writing prompt or a book review.



So how do you publish your stories online?

First read website submission guidelines and conditions

1) Write a story (suitable for an audience of all ages) with a word count of between 300 or 1500 words that was triggered either by our daily writing prompts, weekly writing challenge or our first line competition prompts. If you prefer it could be part of a longer work rather than a complete story,
2) paste the entire work into the box below. There is no need to include any HTML or computer coding, however you will need to make sure your story doesn't include any 'smart quotes'(more explanation on that further down the page),
3) fill in the short form,
4) and then read through the submission guidelines and conditions then click the SUBMIT button.

It'll take a little while before your story is published on this website, but when it is you can be asked to be notified. What's more you'll be given the link so that you can tell all your friends to read and comment on your work.

How easy and fun is that? Being able to publish your stories online was never so simple.

Go on, be one of the first to submit a story, I dare you.



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SMART QUOTES

While it’s easy to publish your writing online here at Writing to Inspire, the one thing that will mess up the process is if you’re using the ‘Smart Quotes’ option on your computer’s writing software. If you are, when you paste your work into the submission box on our website and submit it, all the apostrophes in your writing will become question marks. Something I’m afraid I don’t have time to change. Therefore if you find it happening I strongly recommend you untick the box on your writing software, then cut and paste your work into the form on our website again.

In most cases, if you submit your work with smart quotes (and therefore excess question marks) I will immediately delete it, not because I don’t like your work but purely because it becomes extremely hard to read. So, it’s definitely worth taking a few minutes to switch your smart quotes off.

If you are using MS Word, to find the ‘Smart Quotes’ option Click on the FILE tab, under HELP select OPTIONS, then click PROOFING, AUTOCORRECT OPTIONS, then select AUTOFORMAT AS YOU TYPE. Once you are here simply uncheck the Smart Quotes option.






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