Trouble publishing story.

[Buckifyoucuck]

I have attempted to publish a story a few times and have gone over all of the guidelines. I cannot find a single thing that would force my story to be sent back and would love some assistance with this.
Thank you so much.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I've only had one story sent back, but it came with an explanation. Laurel thought I was writing an unauthorized sequel to someone else's story. I explained that I was just using some general concepts of the other writer's, with permission, and it was published on my second try.

Didn't your rejection(?) come with an explanation?

-Annie

 

[ElectricBlue]

I have attempted to publish a story a few times and have gone over all of the guidelines. I cannot find a single thing that would force my story to be sent back and would love some assistance with this.
Thank you so much.

The site has a set of generic rejection notices which cover the main rejection issues - dialogue punctuation and basic formatting, adherence to the content policies, no AI, etc... Most of them are in the form of a set of questions. Address the questions, make changes as required (or argue your case that you don't need to) and resubmit the story. Add a Note to the Editor to indicate what you've done.

You have to critically examine your story content - sometimes it can be a single sentence that's been found (most likely by a simple word-bot looking for key combinations for words) that's triggering a rejection.

There is always a reason given for the rejection, but rarely anything specific to your story - you have to find the detail and figure it out.

Tell us what the notice says, and someone will be able to assist. You've not given us enough information.