Advised When Rejected? Noob Question.

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

My first story has been accepted. It was a great relief when I saw it approved this morning.

 

[Hypocrites]

Fantastic Serena! Congratulations. I hope to be sharing mine soon.

 

[Hypocrites]

Hmmmm, I still have 1 Pending indication but the story isn't under the tab. I think it's fixing to drop.



I'm interpreting that correctly, right? Sorry if I sound like a fretting child but I'm anxious to know if I'm too perverted for Literotica.

 

[LexxRuthless]

My first story has been accepted. It was a great relief when I saw it approved this morning.
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Hmmmm, I still have 1 Pending indication but the story isn't under the tab. I think it's fixing to drop.

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I'm interpreting that correctly, right? Sorry if I sound like a fretting child but I'm anxious to know if I'm too perverted for Literotica.

By the way, once you have stories on the site you can utilize that little "down arrow" icon on your page there to generate an Excel spreadsheet showing the current stats for all of your works. Doing that occasionally as a "snapshot" of how your work is doing can be extremely useful.

 

[Hypocrites]

Kind of a tangent, but do you find comments helpful? I figured I'd give it a try and left them on.

 

[RejectReality]

Kind of a tangent, but do you find comments helpful? I figured I'd give it a try and left them on.

Most are just going to be praise and requests to continue the story. You'll get a few nasty comments every once in a while as well. You can delete those if you wish from your control panel. I personally leave them unless they're just beyond the pale and attacking another author or something. As often as not, those nasty comments encourage other people to comment telling the nasty person that they're an idiot and why. LOL

There is the occasional constructive criticism, but those are few and far between.

Having comments on is a wise thing to do from a story exposure perspective. There are lists for comments, so that's an additional avenue of exposure for the story.

I don't recommend it, but there's also an option within your control panel to disable the ability to leave anonymous comments on your stories wholesale. Only signed-in users will be able to leave comments then, and only those who enter an email address ( though it can be a fake one, so the protection is limited ) can send you private feedback. The vast percentage of anonymous comments are positive, so turning them off eliminates a lot of encouraging feedback. It should be a last resort if negative comments are severely affecting your motivation to write. Likewise, there's a universal "off" setting for comments in your control panel that will block feedback on all your stories, even from signed-in users.

 

[LexxRuthless]

Kind of a tangent, but do you find comments helpful? I figured I'd give it a try and left them on.

After I first stumbled in here (the Author's Hangout) desperately seeking assistance after I "wrecked" my first series, I learned a tremendous amount about how the site really works from perusing threads in this forum. There were thoughtful answers to questions I hadn't yet thought to ask. I'd highly recommend reading through this thread:
https://forum.literotica.com/thread...from-readers-comments-or-suggestions.1540206/
In particular, there was some excellent discussion about issues authors have had with the BDSM category.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Kind of a tangent, but do you find comments helpful? I figured I'd give it a try and left them on.

I have a rule of thumb that says one comment per thousand views is the norm, and if a story does better than that, it's always a sign I've written something better than usual. I rarely get the, "That's great, more please," not very helpful commentary - my readers usually leave something more meaningful. I rarely get comments from a technical perspective - I can already write - but when they comment on the emotional engagement they've had with a story, that always affirms I'm doing something that works.

And I'd never in a million years turn anon comments off.

 

[Hypocrites]

Thank you all, very much!

Added In Edit: I think I'll place these tips in a note file somewhere. I've been fiddling around and they're great enhancements to functioning here. I can see the beginning of a reference tool box here. Y'all have made this a great experience for me, Now if I can just get published.

 

[Hypocrites]

Soooo making sure I haven't forgotten to do something... My story has had a "1" on the pending tab for a couple of days. So I click on the tab and see this:


If I click on the link it takes me to the edit page:

I'm guessing (hoping?) the red warning banner means don't touch it. Or is it there because I haven't hit a button somewhere?

 

[LexxRuthless]

Soooo making sure I haven't forgotten to do something... My story has had a "1" on the pending tab for a couple of days. So I click on the tab and see this:
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If I click on the link it takes me to the edit page:
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I'm guessing (hoping?) the red warning banner means don't touch it. Or is it there because I haven't hit a button somewhere?

It's just warning you that if you edit or hit the submit again it will take your story out of the Pending queue. Right now it's pending.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

It's just warning you that if you edit or hit the submit again it will take your story out of the Pending queue. Right now it's pending.

It seems to be pending for yesterday, as of my posting this. That's not great.

-Annie

 

[LexxRuthless]

It seems to be pending for yesterday, as of my posting this. That's not great.

-Annie

I noticed that as well. One of my stories, Into the Attic, was kicked back to me after 3-4 days on the site. Someone had reported it for "underage sex" when there wasn't any. I promptly resubmitted it to the site with a note saying, "They clearly misread the section. I made it very clear that the character in question had turned 18 three months earlier."

The story sat in "Pending" status for two weeks. Evidently someone had to take a long look at it; the story got 58 more views while it was pending. It is possible that My Mom's Baby Sister is likewise getting a thorough perusal since it is a first submission from a new author.

 

[LexxRuthless]

As a side note here: About a year later, I submitted a "preemptive edit" to my story. I rewrote about a page to make sure it was much clearer, but also changed the way that pivotal scene played out. Even though the person reporting the story had been wrong, I could understand how someone could make such a mistake if they weren't paying close attention.

Some authors here have complained rather bitterly because the site's "underage sex" policy is not clearly spelled out in the submission guidelines. I've run afoul of it several times, but I understand why it is handled the way it is. Frustrating, yes, but I get it.

 

[Hypocrites]

Some authors here have complained rather bitterly because the site's "underage sex" policy is not clearly spelled out in the submission guidelines. I've run afoul of it several times, but I understand why it is handled the way it is. Frustrating, yes, but I get it.

And when new writers or readers come in from different societal circumstances or states they might misinterpret. For instance, the age of consent is seventeen in Texas. But for me, if I'm writing the story I can add a year.

I wrote a true story elsewhere that involved my painting an innocent scenario between mom and son but because I mentioned his age and the subjects were painted bathing in a spring IRL and the story, it was rejected. I reposted it without the reference to the age and it was accepted.

My point being is there was no sexual act, no sexual watching and no sexual contact in the painting but it was refused because they were nude... by a site without the "class" of clientele that's here.

That's where it gets weird for me so I will just steer clear of even a hint of underage rather than try to finesse my way around what's permissible or not.