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SimonDoom said:
Wait a minute . . . are you attempting sarcasm?
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FYP

@TTG - Now it's water under the bridge.

Luv and hugs,
R B Launcher aka my middle name is 'brat'.

@OP general consensus is the premise crossed the line. My first story was rejected, I reworked it and resubmitted it.
If I may pass along a few words of wisdom from AwkwardMd:

We should all be lucky enough to have a hobby as cathartic as writing.
 
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gunhilltrain said:
This thread brings up a question I've had. What would the site do with an essay - non-fiction - that is basically or wholly non-erotic?
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The Reviews and Essays category is on erotic topics. Here's their tag line for said category. "Your take on art, films, & all things sexual."
 
JerseyGirlDownUnder said:
I don't know. In my second attempt at submitting here I had a short (~600 words) piece of writing rejected from non-erotic as it did not have enough of a story-line, and also rejected from non-erotic poetry (and quite honestly it was a love poem). I can't remember the reason for the poetry rejection. I scratched my head in bewilderment as to what I was doing wrong....and wrote smut for the next successful submission :)
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That's a simple one, actually. The site will not post micro-stories, those under 750 words.
 
GrandTeton said:
That's a simple one, actually. The site will not post micro-stories, those under 750 words.
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Unless you submit several stories as a single post. I do that with my 50-word stories. 50-words x 15 stories (plus copyright notice and titles) is more than 750 words.
 
electricblue66 said:
Ah, that will have been bumped because stories must be at least 750 words - and possibly prose rather than poetry?
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As I understand it, poems longer than 750 words go in the appropriate story section. At least, that's what happened with mine.
 
Bramblethorn said:
As I understand it, poems longer than 750 words go in the appropriate story section. At least, that's what happened with mine.
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I wonder where Coleridge would have put Christabel? Sci-Fi and Fantasy, or Incest? As you mentioned (I think it was you), in the Lit tradition of the great unfinished story.
 
I am proud to have had a story rejected by Lit. I received this advice with the rejection:

Is there excessive degradation, violence, snuff, or abuse of characters in your submission? If it is submitted as a Horror story, is it more snuff than actual horror?

I have read more violent and degrading material than my own on this site, but clearly what I wrote got under someone's skin. It was labeled BDSM and CFNM but it was just too much for someone. I am sure this indicates that I did a pretty good job. No snuff, by the way, just some serious femdom discipline.

I am not proud to have had some of sloppier work published. (I only have a dozen or so on here, but some aren't too good.)
 
boo56 said:
I am proud to have had a story rejected by Lit. I received this advice with the rejection:

Is there excessive degradation, violence, snuff, or abuse of characters in your submission? If it is submitted as a Horror story, is it more snuff than actual horror?

I have read more violent and degrading material than my own on this site, but clearly what I wrote got under someone's skin. It was labeled BDSM and CFNM but it was just too much for someone. I am sure this indicates that I did a pretty good job. No snuff, by the way, just some serious femdom discipline.

I am not proud to have had some of sloppier work published. (I only have a dozen or so on here, but some aren't too good.)
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Did you resubmit, after an edit to remove ambiguity, or with a note confirming there was none of those things? A rejection isn't final, you get the opportunity to address the rejection questions (that's a generic response, btw, where that content/alleged content is concerned).

Laurel scans everything and is pretty good at identifying borderline content (LC, hush, we know ;)), but is open to either rework or to be convinced.
 
electricblue66 said:
Did you resubmit, after an edit to remove ambiguity, or with a note confirming there was none of those things? A rejection isn't final, you get the opportunity to address the rejection questions (that's a generic response, btw, where that content/alleged content is concerned).

Laurel scans everything and is pretty good at identifying borderline content (LC, hush, we know ;)), but is open to either rework or to be convinced.
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I did not resubmit. I compared my work to some others on the site decided that the rejection was arbitrary. Then, decided that Lit simply does not deserve a non-exclusive right to publish that piece. I took my ball and went home.
 
boo56 said:
I did not resubmit. I compared my work to some others on the site decided that the rejection was arbitrary. Then, decided that Lit simply does not deserve a non-exclusive right to publish that piece. I took my ball and went home.
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Booo! Some of the femdom gets fairly dark - I can't imagine how you could have tripped over the line unless there was significant blood loss, flaying, castration, or sustained exposure to Nickelback.
 
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