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Hi, I have had the best spinner for sometime now and I'm still struggling to get to grips with it. I start with an original article and then put the settings onto sentance, I then add 3 or 4 sentances per sentance written. Having started with a 180 word article, which now has 3-4 extra sentances for each of the original sentance my spun article returns JUST 1 sentance, surely I am doing something wrong. Please can someone help?

No, this is right. This is the whole idea of spinning. If your original article had 180 words and 1 sentence in it (Very long sentence), and you wrote similar sentences to that one, then each article will have a different version in it.

If I start out with an "article" that says:
Can you spare 3 minutes a day? Even 2 minutes a day if you're really stuck for time? If you can find 3 extra minutes in the day, you can have a bathroom that anyone can go into at any time. "

I can rewrite this to say,

"If you can find just 2 or 3 minutes spare each day in your busy day, you can clean your bathroom and have it looking clean enough to pass the "mother-in-law" test every single day!"

If I spin these together to produce:
"{Can you spare 3 minutes a day? Even 2 minutes a day if you're really stuck for time? If you can find 3 extra minutes in the day, you can have a bathroom that anyone can go into at any time.|If you can find just 2 or 3 minutes spare each day in your busy day, you can clean your bathroom and have it looking clean enough to pass the "mother-in-law" test every single day!}"

When I export this, I will have only 1 version in each article. Spinning creates ALTERNATIVES. I just created two alternative "articles" there. Now if I went on and spun the words within those articles, I would have a lot of different versions.

I spun just 2 words / phrases in the "article", to get:

{{Can you|Are you able to|Is it possible to|Could you} {spare|free|give up} 3 minutes a day? Even 2 minutes a day if you're really stuck for time? If you can find 3 extra minutes in the day, you can have a bathroom that anyone can go into at any time.|If {you can|you are able to|it is possible to|you possibly can} {find|try to find} just 2 or 3 minutes spare each day in your busy day, you can clean your bathroom and have it looking clean enough to pass the "mother-in-law" test every single day!}

I will still only get 1 item in each article when I export them, but each item will be different.

Here are the first 5 spins from the spintext above:

If you possibly can try to find just 2 or 3 minutes spare each day in your busy day, you can clean your bathroom and have it looking clean enough to pass the "mother-in-law" test every single day!
#BREAK#
Is it possible to spare 3 minutes a day? Even 2 minutes a day if you're really stuck for time? If you can find 3 extra minutes in the day, you can have a bathroom that anyone can go into at any time.
#BREAK#
Are you able to spare 3 minutes a day? Even 2 minutes a day if you're really stuck for time? If you can find 3 extra minutes in the day, you can have a bathroom that anyone can go into at any time.
#BREAK#
Can you spare 3 minutes a day? Even 2 minutes a day if you're really stuck for time? If you can find 3 extra minutes in the day, you can have a bathroom that anyone can go into at any time.
#BREAK#
Can you give up 3 minutes a day? Even 2 minutes a day if you're really stuck for time? If you can find 3 extra minutes in the day, you can have a bathroom that anyone can go into at any time.

You will see that some of the "articles" are pretty similar but not one is identical to any other. And I didn't spend very long adding synonyms either.

Hope this helps.

If not, perhaps you could copy and paste a LITTLE of your text here with the spin and we will try to help.

no you misunderstand. I write around 10 sentances in the original article and then add 3-4 to each sentance meaning I have around 40-50 sentances in total and when I spin I only get 1, I am wanting to get at least 10 setances each time I spin

Hmm, then that is certainly odd. From what you describe, you should get 10 sentences per article.

If you start out with an article that looks like:

Sentence1a. Sentence2a. Sentence3a.  ... etc and add sentences, using TBS, you should end up with:

{Sentence1a|Sentence1b|Sentence1c|Sentence1d} {Sentence2a|Sentence2b|Sentence2c|Sentence2d} {Sentence3a|Sentence3b|Sentence3c|Sentence3d} ... etc

You should then be able to EXPORT your articles to EITHER 1 file, with all the variations in it, each separated by a #BREAK# (or whatever break you chose) or to several files, contained within a ZIP file, each with one different article in it.

The variations would look like:

Sentence 1a. Sentence2d Sentence 3b

Sentence 1b. Sentence2a. Sentence3c ... etc.

Check your spin formatting. For just sentences, it should look like:

{a|b|c|d} {a|b|c|d} etc., where a,b,c and d are each a variation of a sentence.

here is an example

{If you are looking for wedding favours with a difference then one option could be to hand out five lumps of sugar almonds to each of your guests.|Wedding favours originally started many years ago with the giving of five lumps of sugar presented in a beautiful procelain box.|There is no reason to spend a great deal on wedding favours as if you look back in history all that was ever given was five lumps of sugar.|When it comes to wedding favours the more simple the gift the better originally people only used to give 5 lumps of sugar presented in a beautiful box.{} Most of them will not know that this was the original gift for wedding guests and signified ‘health, wealth, and happiness, fertility and long life’.|The reason for using 5 was to signify long life, fertility, wealth, health and happiness many of your guests won't know this so it may be worth letting them know in your speech.|There was a good reason for giving out only five and that was because it was to signify happiness, health, wealth, fertility and long life.|Why was it they only gave five lumps, well the five lumps were to represent health, wealth, happiness, long life and fertility.{} The reason for sugar was that many years ago sugar was the reserve of the rich and so symbolised great wealth and prosperity.|Why it was they used sugar was because sugar was a very scarce at the time and so it was a great honour for guests to recieve sugar.|They used sugar due to the fact that it was only ever the rich who could afford sugar and so it was a sure way to impress their guests.|Using sugar in those times meant you were very wealthy as sugar was only the reserve of the rich the poor would never have even tasted sugar.}

and this is was I get after a spin

If you are looking for wedding favours with a difference then one option could be to hand out five lumps of sugar almonds to each of your guests.

As you can see my original article had 3 sentances, I then added 3 variations of each sentance, I then spun it and it only came back with 1, this is exactly the same if I have 10 sentances.

What do you recon I'm doing wrong??

ok, I pasted it into a word document and changed the { } to  } {, this has now worked, but I really don't want to have to do this for every article I'm spinning. Any help greatly appreciated

Ok, I first paste my article from word doc into TBS.
I then go to settings & options and tick the box marked 'sentance selection mode'.
I then highlight my first sentance and start to re-write sentance, I then press add and so on until I have 3 variations of my original sentance.
I then highlight the next sentance and so on.....

yes, but it doesn't work!

Thanks Meg, you're a star. I did exactly what you said and it now works fine. Now for my next question.

How, after I have added new sentances, can I replace words in those sentances, so as the spun versions of the sentances will be different, or is this not possible?