Just like with picture uploads, always save the file using a standard file format.
Personally I would recommend writing your stories in HTML. Here's all you need to know about it:
[quote]Use P tags to start and end each paragraph, like this.
Centered text
[b]Bold text[/b]
[i]Italic text[/i]
[u]Underlined text[/u]
(horizontal divider)[/quote]
HTML documents should be saved as plain-text format with the filename ending in ".html" in either Notepad or Wordpad, although I recommend WordPad. WordPad [b]doesn't[/b] have a spell-checker though, meaning that you'll have to do all the proofreading yourself.
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