Is this common?

[Antfarmer77]

Ok...my story was rejected again! But I'm not bitter * as he bites a pen in half* LOL. My question is this, I had a ficticious web address in my story and one of the rejection reasons was something to the effect of "Did you have an URL or web address in your story?". "Well yeah! But a pretend one!" LOL. I just wondered if there was a way that a made up site could be written to avoid rejection. I know... I'm rambling.

 

[oggbashan]

You try putting asterisks around it:

*www.thisone.com*

[No. That doesn't work. The post made it as an url.]

or asterisks instead of periods:

www*thisone*com

or say the website is 'thisone' leaving out the 3w and the com.

Og

 

[Antfarmer77]

Thanks for the tip Og. I rewrote it with just a description of what the site was and re-re-resubmitted.

 

[oggbashan]

Good luck this time.

Og

 

[zeb1094]

Who's to say in your world the a web address has to conform to those of the real world.

Why couldn't the construct of Internet addresses in your story be some other abstract, such as:

int.v1.fakesite.v1
www@fakesite@domain.1

alpha/gamma/fakesite.445

 

[impressive]

I used a fictitious URL in a story once (www.rainyseason.com) and included in the Notes field that it was, indeed, a phoney. The story was approved.

Recently, Bel & I used fictitious e-mail addresses in a story -- and, although I forgot to include the note, it was approved & the "editors" added a disclaimer at the top to say that the addresses were fake.