Using Your Cell Phone On Prose
This was recently posted but couldn’t put it in the Support Portal, but that has been remedied. Anytime you wish to check back on it, it can be found here. There is no need to like or repost this unless you want to but I won’t respond unless it’s a matter I haven’t brought up, nor will TeaRise, again, unless it’s a matter we have not heard from you before.
The same thing will be put here (Support Portal) for the How to Flow Through Prose tutorial.
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First and formost, I want to thank one of our Proser’s, ”TeaRise”, for assembling this.
She went to great effort to put this together for you, and she deserves a great deal of Kudo’s from you folks.
Now, let us begin.
Making a Post:
1) click on the big blue write button at the top of your page (can be accessed on all pages)
2) tap your finger on the screen and type away
3) to put italics/bold/underline/place your writing in the centre...double tap on the word
you wish to edit (now this causes trouble as sometimes it doesn’t work so just keep
double tapping aggressively on your screen till it works). Furthermore if you wish to do
this to more than one word simply slide the highlighted part over the words you wish
to include. However, it has often been pointed out that doing things in bold doesn’t
always work, especially for challenges.
4) If you wish to add pictures/portals go to Attaching an Image/Portal
5) If you wish to add the post into a challenge you MUST click on “Enter Challenge” on
the challenge you wish to participate in—and then write it (*note: you can not enter a
challenge after you have published your post)
6) When ready to post your post: click the “Publish” button at the top right hand corner.
Then adjust your publication options (just leave them be, it gets complicated if you
mess with them) and hit publish once more!
Saving as a Draft:
1) After you are done writing your post—if you want to save it but not publish it you
have 2 options—however the other way is more complicated, so you only have one
option
2) Click “File” and then “Save Draft”
3) To recover click the write button and then “Drafts” there will be all of the drafts you
have saved. (*note: you may edit the draft again and again, just make sure you hit the
“save button”, and you must follow the steps of publication to publish a draft)
Editing a Post:
1) Click the three dots at the bottom right hand corner of your post
2) Three options will pop up: Report post/Edit post/ Go to post URL (*skip to
Reporting a Post if you wish to report someone’s work)
3) Click “Edit post”
4) Do whatever snazzzy stuff you need to do (*read Making a Post for more)
5) Click the big blue save button at the top right hand corner and you’re done!
Deleting a Post:
1) Click the three dots at the bottom right hand corner of your post
2) Three options will pop up: Report post/Edit post/ Go to post URL (*skip to
Reporting a Post if you wish to report someone’s work)
3) Click “Edit post”
4) Click “File” at the top left hand corner
5) Four clickable options will pop up:
ignore the first three because they are useless and click “Delete Post”
Attaching an Image/Portal:
1) You may only attach a portal before posting—so before posting click “Attach” at the
top of your pre-made post and click “portal” or “image”
2) To put an image in after posting simply follow the steps in Editing a post to do step 1.
Reporting a Post:
1) Sometimes people’s posts can be inappropriate, and cause unwanted drama. So click
the three dots at the bottom of a persons post and hit report. Follow prose’s steps from
there on out.
Writing a Book:
1) 1st way is to click “write” and then “File” and then “New Book”
2) 2nd way is to click the three bars at the top right hand of the page you are on—to go
to the “Bookstore” page. Then click “Your Library” and then “write a book”
3) After following all of the outlined steps on prose, and creating your book, you need to
know how to continue to write this book.
4) To add a chapter to your book you may do it directly by going into your book and
clicking “edit book” then clicking “chapters”. Then you can either add a previous post
to your book, or scroll all the way down to writing a new post which will automatically
become part of your book.
5) You can enter a post into a challenge and your book. But you must enter the challenge
first (*look to Challenges Explained*). After entering the challenge, you may add the
post to your book as stated in the above step.
Reading a Book:
1) Access the bookstore—explore books
2) Click on “Your library” to continue reading a book you have saved
3) To save a book to your library click on a persons book and “add to library”
4) You can read a book by chapter (using the arrows at the top of your screen) or by
clicking on specific chapters at the beginning.
Different pages Explained:
1) To access different pages click the 3bars at the top right hand corner of your screen
2) ”Home” shows you the people you follow posts’ and re-posts. (you can turn off sharing
the posts you re-post in settings). This page can also be accessed by clicking on the
Prose logo at the top left corner.
3) The “Posts” page shows you everyone’s post. By clicking the “Trending” button you
can choose to look at newer posts or popularity—you can look for yourself. Not my
favourite way of finding newbies (my favourite is by re-posts) however it is a way. On
this page you can also access the different portals, authors, and the bookstore.
4) To change anything go into “Settings”. The only thing I change is my profile images located in “account”.
Challenges Explained:
1) ENTERING CHALLENGES! Not only are they fun, but they spark creativity, allow
for motivation, make you feel more connected to the community, you will find great
writing in them, your work will get great exposer.
2) To enter a challenge go to the “challenges page” and click “enter challenge” on the one
you want to enter.
(**You may not enter into a challenge more than once at the current moment. And you can only enter new work into a challenge)
3) PLEASE READ THE QUALIFICATIONS. There will be the challenge
name/prompt in black letters. This is where your idea is sparked. However, many
challenge creators include certain restrictions below this bolded name. I encourage you
to read it as if it is a monarchy, you will have an easier time creating what the
challenger wants. (**This does not mean do not think outside of the box). Only
poems, no stories.
4) Monarchy vs. Democracy. Monarchy means that the person who created the challenge
is judging. Democracy means that the post with the most likes wins.
5) Prose does weekly challenges and monthly challenges, which is decided by “them”.
They both give you great exposure and writing experience. (Trick to winning: make
your post completely original, keeps the readers attention, and has a great starting
line). Only monthly challenges have money attached to it.
6) Challenges have a time-limit, so if you see one you like—think fast and enter.
(Sometimes the best work is the messiest and truest)
7) To find challenges scroll. To find newer challenges press the “Trending” button.
Creating a Challenge:
1) Go to challenge page (*read Different Pages Explained if unsure of how to do so*)
2) Click “create challenge”
3) Your prompt is the short phrase that appears in black (look at other challenges if
unsure).
4) Your rules/criteria/description is what appears in a smaller font with no bold. Here you
may put guiding information to assist someone wishing to enter your challenge.
5) To add an end date or a portal it is tricky so tap the far left side of the box.
(*Challenges without a prize can only have a time of one month. The shorter the contest the longer it stays in trending.)
6) Choose word limit if you want one and then choose if you want monarchy or
democracy (**read above if you want to know the difference)
7) To get your challenge in trending, you must have people enter fast. Therefore, create
an original but relevant prompt. (Ex. Write about someone you love in 15 words)
Monarchy Challenges:
1) To judge a challenge ask the people entering to tag you in the comments by saying
such in the description. Or you may just check up on your challenge frequently to see
the entries.
2) Be a good host and tell them what you think in the comments
3) If you are going to do monarchy: READ EVERY POST (unless it disqualifies).
4) To choose a winner: click on the three dots at the bottom of the winning post and
“select challenge winner”. It will ask you to confirm so don’t worry it is not a scam that
will take away all your money.
5) To locate your challenge, read further
Sending Messages/Blocking:
1) Go to their main page
2) On the left-hand side will be two icons: a speech bubble, and a prohibition sign.
3) Click the speech bubble
4) That will take you to your message area and then you type what you will
5) The only way to send a message is to hit “send”
6) MESSAGING GOES FUNNY AFTER A WHILE when on a phone. So if you truly
want to get into contact with this person with them being able to see your messages
and vice versa - give them a safe and secure way to contact you. (Do not be giving out
private information!)
7) By the same occurrence to Block someone, click the prohibition sign on this person’s
page. They will no longer be able to see your posts, leave comments, etc; nor will
you be able to see theirs as well.
8) To know if you have messages, there will be (or is supposed to be, a red dot
appearing between the News Feeds and the word Write.
Locating Your Challenge/Posts/Books:
1) There are three simple ways of doing this.
2) First way is to go into “write” and click on “file” and “new book”. Then click on Desk
where you will have 3 options: My Posts, My Challenges, My Books
3) Second way is to click on your book and then “edit book” and then “desk” once more
4) Third way is to go into bookstore, click “your library”, and then “write a book, once
more you will find your desk!
If there is anything else you believe needs to be added to this, please make us aware and it will get added in, and the same holds true for the other post that was created expressly to help you.
This isn’t an “I” thing or a “Me” thing ... it’s an “Us” thing, because we are all in this together!