Book of How To

Submitted by zen on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 - 01:00

How to

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Subject:	Write a Book - How to start?
Author:	Astarte
Date:	Tue, 2005-11-01 22:40

Weep no more

When I click onto "write a book" it opens the page and there's:

1.Title____________________

2.Parent:Muder of a Sea Turtle
***Question:How do I get rid of this parent title????***
****How to I put in my own parent title??? There does not seem to be an option for this....??****

3. Body:__________________

I am interested in writing/editing my own book without any contributing pages from others. How do I do this???

I would welcome any criticisms but not contributions....I'd be happier if the work was entirely original.

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Subject:	It took me a while but I
Author:	zen
Date:	Wed, 2005-11-02 00:07

It took me a while but I finally figure it out. Now you should be able to create a new book by clicking "write a book".

I haven't found a function to prevent others from adding to your book. But since you are an editor, you can remove pages from your book (if someone did it accidentally) and assign it to other books.

Perhaps you can include in your title (Astarte's private book), so others know not to add to your book.

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Subject:	Thank you Zen
Author:	Astarte
Date:	Wed, 2005-11-02 00:18

Weep no more

Thank you Zen, it seems to me that you must never sleep :) as you always respond so promptly to posts!

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Subject:	I sleep at work, so you'll
Author:	zen
Date:	Wed, 2005-11-02 00:22

I sleep at work, so you'll never see me posting from work...

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Subject:	How To Add New Book Chapters?
Author:	Astarte
Date:	Sun, 2005-11-06 18:12

How do I add a new chapter to my book? Do I just click onto add another comment????

Or is it a little more tricky?

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Subject:	How to add child page.
Author:	zen
Date:	Sun, 2005-11-06 19:01

Don't click add comments, click the "Add Child Page" under your synopsis.

And you should use the title
Chapter 01 - The Chippetuck Chronicles
instead of
The Chippetuck Chronicles - Chapter 1

So your chapters will stay in order (You don't want chapter 2 go before chapter 1, do you?)

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