inconsistancy in passing stories for publication

[Sissy Adele Howells]

I have had many rejections in the past on some of my stories. While I agree there have been minor punctuation or spelling mistakes, I feel sometimes annoyed. I do except that this is done for my own good. What annoys me is some of the stories that I have read recently are so bad in their punctuation and spelling, which is littered about the story. I read one the other day that seemed much shorter than the minimum amount of words. Somebody had even commented on this in their comments. I can't believe that some of these are passed for publication.
Anyway I have had my say. I love this website and the hard work that is done on reading dozens of stories. I appreciate that for my work, that some suggestions are for my own good.
Happy New Year to all of you
ADELE

 

[Mesachie]

I haven't submitted anything yet, myself. But I have been working on some for here. One editor did a fine job of showing me the many errors within my first story. And he gave me the admonition that, as my story was submitted to him, it would likely not be acceptable to Literotica. I heeded his advice and have it set back for an extensive rewrite.

But I can hear what you are saying too, Sissy. Not knowing why that obvious disparity between the current rules and what we occasionally see in the vault, I usually assign it to an earlier time when the rules may not have been so tight.

I am sure the rules for literotica have changed over its existance. People come and go, rules do too, and even how they are applied. People will have different interpretations of what a rule means or when it applies. I can handle some mistakes if the person writes a story that interests me. That maybe why some stories that seem to not meet the guidelines are here. If it is an interesting read, even if a rough one, one editor might say okay, another might reject it.

I'm not sure exactly how their process works here. Who chooses, who rejects, if it goes through multiple hands or just one trusted individual. Be interesting to know. Since most of us want to be better writers, I suppose that being rejected is a call to work at it a bit harder or put a bit more time in. But I can understand that when you have something you feel is fairly well crafted but refused, seeing someone else's story in the vault that is roughly written just adds salt to the wounds.

Mesachie

 

[Darkniciad]

The most likely culprit is the sheer volume of submissions, and the necessity to go through them quickly to keep up at any reasonable pace.

If you just happen to have an error near the top of the story, or in a place that really stands out, or a warning flag ( like the word "teen" I should imagine ) then you're probably more likely to get slapped with that rejection. Meanwhile another story - with more errors - manages to slip past because the errors were deeper in or just sort of managed to stay hidden within the text while being scanned for approval.

If you've been getting content related rejections, which you don't believe were valid, I would suggest noting things in the moderator notes with the submission right up front. I've done this several times where I felt something might trigger the warning flag sniffer as underage sex, but such doesn't actually occur.

My humor series is packed full of grammar errors, because the whole point is to spoof bad stories. I put a moderator note in every one of them that the errors of the original story are left in on purpose, for their spoof value. That way when they see punctuation outside the quotes, or horrible spelling, they know it's there for a reason, and it's not just sloppy editing.