What a wonderful surprise!!! Thank you all very much!

I just want to let you know that I finally gave up. I did the things you suggested and still get the same message about turning it into a jpeg, etc. file. I try again when I think about in hopes that maybe someday it will allow me to post. I have no problem with posting pictures. The program just won't let post a story. So I went to writing.com and if your interested in reading a quick one I post look for oldmanschild.

Do want to thank you, Suzanne, you hung in there til the bitter end. You are a great person!!!!

Thanks again, Deborah

I am going to try something here---I just that maybe I could attach a file----I'll give it a shot----what can it hurt?

Hello Suzanne,

Well, I tried last night and again this morning. Last night I typed directly in the box after going the the upload page. I then put in writiers, science fiction (for the lack of a better genre), left the next two blank, wrote in the title, type in a short poem,left the next one blank, left the alignment in default, skipped the vendor thing, cleared the image info, choose the comments and none for nudity, violence and check the last box--it is mine. Hit upload and save  again received the message that it was an invalid image file and it needed to be converted to jpeg etc.

Then this morning I thought if it wants an image I will use the simple one that I posted in the Beginners gallery. I check the length and made sure it was only 28kb. So, I started the same way, writers, sci-fi, except this time I put the image in the thumbnail spot, title, copied the story line by line and pasted it in Notes and Captions, used two words in the next box, aligned it right, skipped the vendors, left the image box, etc. Hit upload and save----got the same message.

There has to be something I'm not doing right---I thought I may have the wrong page but that can't be. It has to be a simple thing I'm missing. It really can't be this difficult.

Thanks, Deb

I have tried moving one story from a .doc file to my notepad. It changed to a .txt file but I still got the "invalid image" message. I am going to write something new in the notepad and try again. I'll keep trying--maybe it is just that this story isn't ready yet.hehe.

If you won't give up---I won't!

Deb

Finally, I am making progress!!!!! I got it to copy and paste this time. The thing I get now is that I need to convert the text to a jpeg, bmp, etc. file. And if you haven't guessed by now I am relatively new at the computer---used it for writing but have not used the internet much. So, how do I do that, or does it need to be done? 

Deb

I really am thankfull for all the help. Can you walk me through this from the top? I go to the upload page and in gallery I choose writers. Then I go--half way down to where it says Notes? I tried typing in there and was able to write but when I tried to preview I was told to convert to a jpg., etc. file. I also could not get it to copy and paste there. So, I'm thinking I have the wrong place. I didn't find anything marked Comments. 

I only hope that my wiritng will be worth your time. 

Thanks again. Deb

Ok. I give up. As much as I want to share EVERYTIME I try to submit and upload I get the same results. My image is to large, it does not fit the 100 x 100----400 x 400 image guidelines. I have tried to upload 2 lines of 24 words and still get the same message. Any more ideas?