Hello, all. I recently submitted a story that was intentionally over-the-top in terms of the violence displayed by the main character. The goal was to build up a "hero" for the BTB crowd in Chapter One, and then show what happens as a consequence of his actions in the second chapter.
The plot is very familiar to anyone who reads the LW category on a regular basis: husband finds out wife is cheating, takes revenge on her by cutting off the genitals of her and her lover, and then flees to a foreign country with all her money and their daughter.
Sick shit, but the BTB crowd goes nuts for this plot time and again, and consistently awards such stories with a 4-star rating or higher.
A few days after submitting my story, I received a rejection notification, along with the following message from Laurel and Manu:
"We generally do not accept submissions of nonconsensual sex in which the "victim" gets absolutely no sort of thrill or enjoyment from the acts, or is seriously and /or permanently physically harmed/abused."
I was actually impressed that they rejected my story, as I have had the impression that they don't heavily scrutinize the submissions, based on the number of outlandishly violent tales of revenge that litter the LW category on a daily basis. My hope was that this was some new policy that they were enforcing to finally rid the category of this garbage.
...But then two days later, a story was posted by "FinishTheDamnStory", titled, "Martha Finally Cheats Too Often." This plot of this story is eerily similar to the one I wrote. A man discovers his wife is cheating, so he goes to his neighbors' house (who were the ones she cheated with), burned off the wife's nipples, cut off the husband's penis, left them both lying in a pool of blood, cleaned out all of his bank accounts, and fled to some Latin American paradise, where he lived happily ever after. In the end, he learns that the wife committed suicide because she was so embarrassed and ashamed.
I'd like to know why my story was rejected, but this story was published, given that three of the four main characters were left "seriously and/or permanently physically harmed/abused."
I've made this suggestion many times before, and I'll make it again, in the hope that Laurel and/or Manu actually read this and consider it: this site desperately needs a voluntary editorial committee to screen each submission and ensure that it is placed in the proper category. It would cost nothing, and would greatly improve this site.
The plot is very familiar to anyone who reads the LW category on a regular basis: husband finds out wife is cheating, takes revenge on her by cutting off the genitals of her and her lover, and then flees to a foreign country with all her money and their daughter.
Sick shit, but the BTB crowd goes nuts for this plot time and again, and consistently awards such stories with a 4-star rating or higher.
A few days after submitting my story, I received a rejection notification, along with the following message from Laurel and Manu:
"We generally do not accept submissions of nonconsensual sex in which the "victim" gets absolutely no sort of thrill or enjoyment from the acts, or is seriously and /or permanently physically harmed/abused."
I was actually impressed that they rejected my story, as I have had the impression that they don't heavily scrutinize the submissions, based on the number of outlandishly violent tales of revenge that litter the LW category on a daily basis. My hope was that this was some new policy that they were enforcing to finally rid the category of this garbage.
...But then two days later, a story was posted by "FinishTheDamnStory", titled, "Martha Finally Cheats Too Often." This plot of this story is eerily similar to the one I wrote. A man discovers his wife is cheating, so he goes to his neighbors' house (who were the ones she cheated with), burned off the wife's nipples, cut off the husband's penis, left them both lying in a pool of blood, cleaned out all of his bank accounts, and fled to some Latin American paradise, where he lived happily ever after. In the end, he learns that the wife committed suicide because she was so embarrassed and ashamed.
I'd like to know why my story was rejected, but this story was published, given that three of the four main characters were left "seriously and/or permanently physically harmed/abused."
I've made this suggestion many times before, and I'll make it again, in the hope that Laurel and/or Manu actually read this and consider it: this site desperately needs a voluntary editorial committee to screen each submission and ensure that it is placed in the proper category. It would cost nothing, and would greatly improve this site.
