What's wrong with my fan fiction?

[Sollar Eclipse 22]

I was writting a history... And when I finished almost the first chapter I send to fimfiction. But one of the moderators sad that it was a greentext history and that he could not accept it.

 

I don't know but for me isn't a greentext history. 

The hopelessness.docx

[Doctor Derpy 164]

It does have something similar to > which is - If you remove those and using another type of writing to write the story then it'll be okay.

 

(Sorry if I didn't understand what you meant.)

[Sollar Eclipse 22]

It does have something similar to > which is - If you remove those and using another type of writing to write the story then it'll be okay.

 

(Sorry if I didn't understand what you meant.)

Oh...  But ">" are total different from the "-"...   I will have to write everything again? I took so much time.

;-; I'm going to cry a lot now... Again...

And: 

Edited April 29, 2013 by Sollar Eclipse

[IronPuddinG 249]

Greentext is a term that originated from 4chan when users would put '>' on everyline and the text would be, you guessed it, green.  Your story has something similar.  The hypens are the problem and is what the mod is referring to.  Replace the hyphens with quotes (because they're talking) and you'll be good to go.

[Sollar Eclipse 22]

Greentext is a term that originated from 4chan when users would put '>' on everyline and the text would be, you guessed it, green.  Your story has something similar.  The hypens are the problem and is what the mod is referring to.  Replace the hyphens with quotes (because they're talking) and you'll be good to go.

But... But... ;-; Doesn't have "-" in everyline... Why I'm so pathetic in everything... Gosh... I do everythin wrong... Why? Why? Whhhyy? Okay, I think that I'm acting like Rarity right now...

[IronPuddinG 249]

But... But... ;-; Doesn't have "-" in everyline... Why I'm so pathetic in everything... Gosh... I do everythin wrong... Why? Why? Whhhyy? Okay, I think that I'm acting like Rarity right now...

 

It's on about 80% of the lines, which is where the problem lies.  You might get away with a couple lines, but it would be best to just replace all the hyphens with quotation marks.

[Magpie 623]

I'm sure you already know this by now, but it's because you are using hyphens instead of quotation marks. A hyphen is used to join words or separate syllables, not to mark dialogue.  If you want it, I edited out all hyphens and replaced them with quotes, I can send it to you, or you can access this gdoc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FK0_F03r8LWLypIbi_onqWmft0pwubuslfrJtldl3GE/edit If you have nay problems with me doing this let me know and I will immediately remove the gdoc

Edited April 29, 2013 by Brosparkles

[Sollar Eclipse 22]

I'm sure you already know this by now, but it's because you are using hyphens instead of quotation marks. A hyphen is used to join words or separate syllables, not to mark dialogue.  If you want it, I edited out all hyphens and replaced them with quotes, I can send it to you, or you can access this gdoc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FK0_F03r8LWLypIbi_onqWmft0pwubuslfrJtldl3GE/edit If you have nay problems with me doing this let me know and I will immediately remove the gdoc

Oh my gosh...   You really did it? It's so amazing...   I don't have words for that... So... I will put a video of some of me reaction to this. Okay, here is:

[Acoustic Cloud 2,202]

It's in their rules of entry, it can't be formatted like that in any sort of form.  Just do a quick read through their terms of entry and you'll be able to fix it in no time.

[Magpie 623]

Oh my gosh...   You really did it? It's so amazing...   I don't have words for that... So... I will put a video of some of me reaction to this. Okay, here is:

It was no problem. If you want any other help with it just ask. I've published multiple times to Fimfiction, so I know how their rules are. (Unlike EQD, which I haven't even considered posting to yet.) Also, tell me when you post it, I'll check it out. And I figured I should mention if you don't know, openoffice has this nice little feature called find and replace, which lets you just find any word/symbol, and replace it with another. Much easier than changing every single hyphen to a quote.

Edited April 30, 2013 by Brosparkles