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[SimonDoom]

You are perfectly free at Literotica to write your own version of Snow White. I did. It's public domain. Everybody knows you aren't the original source author. There is no copyright or plagiarism problem.

I suppose if you took an obscure pu license domain story from the 19th century and tried to pass it off as your own at Lit you would be breaking their rules, but does this ever happen?

 

[TiberiusPrime]

It's an interesting question if Lit would allow posting of a public domain work.

Why not? If it's public domain, you could, conceivably, have a Sherlock Holmes/James Watson bisexual lovefest story on here. Or a Tarzan/Jane/Judy of the Jungle threesome story. They're all free to use.

Now how Literotica views this is the major issue. They may not want to take any chances and will disallow any such stories, but this doesn't mean someone couldn't post it elsewhere.

 

[Gamblnluck]

Why not? If it's public domain, you could, conceivably, have a Sherlock Holmes/James Watson bisexual lovefest story on here. Or a Tarzan/Jane/Judy of the Jungle threesome story. They're all free to use.

Now how Literotica views this is the major issue. They may not want to take any chances and will disallow any such stories, but this doesn't mean someone couldn't post it elsewhere.

Not long ago, I took exception to using real life people, making up stories that put them into a compromising story line. Not just names, but adapting situations, like having George Clooney fresh from his acting gig doing Danica Patrick as she bent over her race car at Indy while his real life wife Amal played with herself watching.
It was perfectly fine to use a situation that might disparage someone's reputation according to MANY of the authors here on the forum. Many considered it simple 'fanfic' and by saying that, there was no problem with any story line. With that in mind using a fictional story as inspiration for the plot (not even using the same characters or actual situation) should be perfectly fine.

 

[OddLove]

I had stories rejected early on and I was always informed exactly why. They even sent me links to articles that could help. One time they sent me a link to an article called 'How to make your characters talk' or something like that. After I read it, I reformatted all the dialog, resubmitted the story, and it was approved a few days later. So unless people are going to start taking screenshots of their rejected story that shows the moderators notes, or lack of notes, I'm not jumping to anyone's defense over rejected or deleted stories.

From my experience, they tell us exactly why something get's sent back, and if we fix it, then it get's approved. It's that simple.

 

[Comshaw]

I had stories rejected early on and I was always informed exactly why. They even sent me links to articles that could help. One time they sent me a link to an article called 'How to make your characters talk' or something like that. After I read it, I reformatted all the dialog, resubmitted the story, and it was approved a few days later. So unless people are going to start taking screenshots of their rejected story that shows the moderators notes, or lack of notes, I'm not jumping to anyone's defense over rejected or deleted stories.

From my experience, they tell us exactly why something get's sent back, and if we fix it, then it get's approved. It's that simple.

In my experience (and I've had more than a few stories rejected in my early trys) I think you are an exception. I never received such advice on any of my rejected stories. In fact several times the rejection was so sparse in wording I had a hell of a time figuring out what was wrong.

The advice from the powers that be you detail should be SOP but isn't.

Comshaw

 

[ElectricBlue]

In my experience (and I've had more than a few stories rejected in my early trys) I think you are an exception. I never received such advice on any of my rejected stories. In fact several times the rejection was so sparse in wording I had a hell of a time figuring out what was wrong.

The advice from the powers that be you detail should be SOP but isn't.

Comshaw

There's a standard rejection notice for each of the most common issues - most couched as a set of questions, with a sign post to the FAQs and a suggestion to seek an editor. It's been that way for the last decade, based on the multitude of threads like this over the years.

Are you sure you got nothing from the site?

 

[Comshaw]

There's a standard rejection notice for each of the most common issues - most couched as a set of questions, with a sign post to the FAQs and a suggestion to seek an editor. It's been that way for the last decade, based on the multitude of threads like this over the years.

Are you sure you got nothing from the site?

Positive. And all the "standard rejection notices" I received never went beyond 2 sentences, comprised of general problems with no details. I think I received one rejection with a couple of questions and several times suggestions to seek an editor, which is a whole other thing because my experience in finding one was like a Snipe hunt. Most times it was a single sentence, "rejected for formatting" or something approximating that language. "Sign post to other FAQs"? Nope, never.

But that wasn't what OddLove said. As you can see below, they said they were sent links to articles that could help. I would have loved that.

I had stories rejected early on and I was always informed exactly why. They even sent me links to articles that could help. One time they sent me a link to an article called 'How to make your characters talk' or something like that. After I read it, I reformatted all the dialog, resubmitted the story, and it was approved a few days later. So unless people are going to start taking screenshots of their rejected story that shows the moderators notes, or lack of notes, I'm not jumping to anyone's defense over rejected or deleted stories.

From my experience, they tell us exactly why something get's sent back, and if we fix it, then it get's approved. It's that simple.

After looking at my published works I remembered that "my early trys" were between 2000 and 2004. I didn't try here again until after I retired in 2016. Between those two dates, I did write and publish a few stories, but on another site (which is mentioned on the front page of Lit).

The strange thing is I'm sure I published a story or two between 2016 and 2020 here, but all my newer works are dated 2020 or newer. Curioser and curioser. Maybe not. I could be suffering from CRS (can't remember shit) because of age.

Comshaw

 

[M_K_Babalon]

There is at least one author here who has published erotic variants of famous fairy tales, and those weren't published in the Celebrities and fanfic category. Off the top of my head, I remember seeing Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, etc. So the answer is yes, I suppose.

I was gonna bring that up. Your version of a public domain story, yes. An exact, verbatim of one, highly unlikely. One could write their own version of Alice In Wonderland, as a general example that may, or may not apply to Lit, but recreating Disney's version, or the Depp one, nah. That's why there was like four Pinochio movies a few years back.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Am I the only one? I've written a lot of stories on here, but three of them have been rejected for the stupidest of reasons. I simply mentioned in my inro that my inspiration came from another story, Nothing in my stories had anything t do with the original story. no similar names, no similar ploy lines, they were completely new stories, even though I stated that in my introduction, the stories were rejected because I didn't get permission from the original authors. In all cases, I did message the original authors, but they didn't respond. Even though these stories were completely different than the original stories, they were rejected.
Am I the only one that this is happening to, or are he moderators for this site simply too stupid to actually read the submissions? Seriously, one of my stories that was rejected didn't even have humans in it. It is about monkeys. Completely different story. I have t ask, are the moderators here naturally stupid, or do they need to take a class to lower their intelligence?

I think you did it to yourself, and talking shit about somebody in their house, isn't very wise. I don't know how petty she is, but I know she handles criticism well enough, from seeing her go back and fourth with some of our more... critical users.

You could've explained it in the mod notes, or a dm to her, with decorum. But this bitchmade bullshits not gonna get you anywhere. I ain't even defending Laurel, it's just common sense. This ain't how you get shit done, when you don't really matter. Thousands of stories, thousands of users, hundreds of active writers, couple hundred submissions a day.

The fact that your comment hasn't been editted, or you haven't been removed by the no nonsense AH Mod, the thread locked, or she hasn't said anything, or kicked you herself—if she's seen this, speaks to something. Whatever it is, this is just another bug splat on the coach, and it'll keep cruising down the highway with or without you.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I don't think there is any point in discussing the O.P.'s post anymore. It was clearly just a childish anger-venting post. I can get past the anger and insults if there is any reasonable follow-up, but they clearly just wanted to call the admins stupid and not really discuss or engage in any meaningful way.