Alright, after two sets of rejections, a couple of my pending stories finally have the little “pending/NEW” label, so I might be moving out of purgatory! These had some minor revisions from their original versions.
I don’t deserve that much credit, but thank you. I may not be AI, but I am certainly not original either. I started writing because @DonnerBBQ was on hiatus, so many of my scenes are inspired by his work.
Time to leave the forumsI'm glad that things are starting to move through for you
Good luck, sucker! </joke>
Trying undoubtedly makes it better.
"Witch hunter" is harsh. As far as we can tell, Laurel is doing the best she can with a thankless job.
What did the more detailed message say? It might help other people.
I recall someone saying that UK spelling is more likely to get through. Then again, just the other day someone here ran the opening paragraphs of the first Harry Potter through an AI detector and it came back as 100% AI. I don't remember whether it was the UK or the US printing, though.
It’s kinda easy to throw stones when you don’t know what is really happening. I get the frustration, but I don’t think the angst is helpful.
What’s guaranteed to get you through is writing like me. Then many have tried and many are now on medication.
This may also address Emily's thread about generational differences but I always felt like the Harry Potter stories read as if they had been written by an automaton. Waits for the howls of dissent.
Oh, definitely! Ms Rowling's success has little to do with her ability as a writer, I think, and everything with some imaginative worldbuilding. I reread the paragraphs that had been run through the AI, and my finger was itching to click Track Changes and let rip.
I never got on with Potter. It was around when I was growing up, but I read The Hobbit and Alice In Wonderland first (maybe when I was seven or eight). Not much competition there. Tried some of the movies, but kinda meh as well. Never quite understood what the fuss was about. Some people my age adore them.
You have earned the right to be upset, but the roster of skilled writers in these rejection threads should help confirm that it has nothing to do with your ability. @loerics has a million stories, many dating back a decade, with hundreds of thousands of readers, a wall of “HOT” icons, and still gets dinged for AI. I think @DrPope is going to single handedly write a hundred stories for other sites as revenge.Alrighty, so it's now been a lovely 24 hours since I received that 6th AI Rejection note for Part 5 and I guess I'm in a position where I don't quite know what to do next.
On the one hand, I don't want to give up this fight after trying so hard for the past two months, but this is such an exhausting fight and battle to have time and time again.
It sucks to be in this position where you have started this story, where you have the plans for future parts and even spin-offs, but you don't know if you'll be hit with the same blow every time you try to publish. I know I probably sound like a stuck record at this point, and if I do then I'm sorry, but being in this boat is just the worst.
Today, I think the worst part of it has been seeing people get their stories through the red tape and succeed in getting them published whilst I'm still stuck here. It does hurt and I'm not going to pretend anything to contrary. It creates a lot of self-doubt in my ability as a writer and in whether these rejections are more targeted than perhaps I first intended although I know that probably isn't the case.
I'm so happy to see people getting through, and I genuinely mean that. It's awesome to see you're stories push past the red tape and break through a system that we have little to no knowledge of.
I suppose I'm just a little conflicted as to what my next steps are going to be regarding the issue and just what I should do beyond this point. It's been a long fight already and I don't know if I have the strength to keep fighting it.
Sorry for the long-ish, slightly depressing postYou lot have already put up with so much of me already I'm surprised you're still listening to my bullshit.
Something might have changed in the past day or two.They said that they checked several times and many paragraphs were still coming back as “largely AI generated,” and that the most common offender was Grammarly, but anything with click-to-replace grammar tools will trigger the detection software. They asked what programs I was using, and I said something like:
I think even going on the old ASSM shw stories and RustysBBS even before that I've written less then 100 in my life ....
