Creating and saving articles from the front-end of the site...

Here is another test article...

There is a 'save' and 'cancel' grey button by the upper right corner of the text edit window.  If you don't click Save, your entry will get lost Sad  If the category isn't set right (down below here) to 'Guest Blog' (or some other choice if you're putting the entry elsewhere) then the article will be saved, but I may have to edit as administrator to reset the category so it shows up.

If you set 'State' to Unpublished then it also will not be shown on the site, but will be stored for later.  This is one way (perhaps the only way) to stash a partly completed article that you're going to come back to work on later.