How to know if I've goofed the submission process?

[Lydra]

UPDATE -- It seems, if I'd waited another few hours, I would have gotten the answer! Story was sent back. I had a request in the comments about story linkage, which apparently was prohibited by constraints in the site back end.


Original post below:

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The sequence of events:

- 10 days ago, I submitted a story, along with the Summer Lovin contest key phrase.
- A few hours later, story was rejected. Without going into details, it was ineligible for the contest. The moderator's note said nothing about anything problematic with the story itself.
- Seeing that, I resubmitted the story without the Summer Lovin contest phrase, and a little note about withdrawing from the contest.

Since it's been so long, I'm worried that I've somehow messed something up with getting a story rejected and resubmitting it. Sorry to create yet another "WHY HASN'T MY STORY BEEN POSTED YET!" thread, I know you all must be sick of them. I know, with the contest stories getting priority and generally higher traffic during the summer months, there's plenty of reasons why the delay might be perfectly normal. I'm just wondering if there's a way to check whether I've done something wrong on my end?

Thanks all,
Lydra

 

[NotWise]

The sequence of events:

- 10 days ago, I submitted a story, along with the Summer Lovin contest key phrase.
- A few hours later, story was rejected. Without going into details, it was ineligible for the contest. The moderator's note said nothing about anything problematic with the story itself.
- Seeing that, I resubmitted the story without the Summer Lovin contest phrase, and a little note about withdrawing from the contest.

Since it's been so long, I'm worried that I've somehow messed something up with getting a story rejected and resubmitting it. Sorry to create yet another "WHY HASN'T MY STORY BEEN POSTED YET!" thread, I know you all must be sick of them. I know, with the contest stories getting priority and generally higher traffic during the summer months, there's plenty of reasons why the delay might be perfectly normal. I'm just wondering if there's a way to check whether I've done something wrong on my end?

Thanks all,
Lydra

Chapters from an on-going story aren't eligible for contests.

What you submitted is in your Pending list. You can review it any time you want. Keep in mind that if you change anything, then that will move your story to the end of the queue.

Laurel may be treating your story with the priority of an edit. If it takes much longer, then you can remind her via PM.

 

[Lydra]

Story was just sent back with explanation. I've updated the original post so hopefully others won't feel the need to chime in.

Thanks for the information, NotWise!