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PennLady
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Right now, approximately 2-3 days.
You can check on the status at this thread: http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=981222
You can check on the status at this thread: http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=981222
NiceNastyMann
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It may take longer - and it's okay if you get rejected. There will be an explanation as to why. Follow it - the editors here are only trying to follow good grammar rules - not give you a hard time.
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Newbie fever: You've just submitted your first story. You refresh the VIEW SUBMISSIONS page every hour to see if it's been approved yet. Your blood pressure rises and your gut hurts, despite chugging Maalox. You fear rejection, like the first time you asked for a date and were laughed at. Your life tanks. Fuck it all.
The BEST that can happen is that your first story IS rejected. Now you have to take a close look at it -- and you've cooled off a little, you're no longer awaiting judgement. If you're smart, you find an editor to go over it. You rewrite it a couple times -- and it is MUCH better.
As it happens, I'm 'editing' (major rewrite) a guy's first story that was rightfully rejected for lousy punctuation. Too bad "general incomprehensibility" isn't grounds also. I must be a masochist -- it's a bloated mess. He used MS-WORD to spell-check but the robot doesn't screen redundancies, repetitions, vague visualizations, and generally muddled prolix prose.
I tell myself that my first story wasn't that bad. Well, the first I submitted here wasn't. But I've just rewritten and submitted a piece I wrote, what, 15 years ago? It was even published then. But I guess my editor had low standards -- it was ALMOST as bad as my current fixup project. Overly long paragraphs of overly-claused sentences with too many vague pronouns and not near enough synonyms, as well as irresponsible adverbs, oh my.
Basic strategy: Slow down. Take your time. Re-read and re-write after sitting on the story for a week. Ask for help. Don't have a cow, man.
The BEST that can happen is that your first story IS rejected. Now you have to take a close look at it -- and you've cooled off a little, you're no longer awaiting judgement. If you're smart, you find an editor to go over it. You rewrite it a couple times -- and it is MUCH better.
As it happens, I'm 'editing' (major rewrite) a guy's first story that was rightfully rejected for lousy punctuation. Too bad "general incomprehensibility" isn't grounds also. I must be a masochist -- it's a bloated mess. He used MS-WORD to spell-check but the robot doesn't screen redundancies, repetitions, vague visualizations, and generally muddled prolix prose.
I tell myself that my first story wasn't that bad. Well, the first I submitted here wasn't. But I've just rewritten and submitted a piece I wrote, what, 15 years ago? It was even published then. But I guess my editor had low standards -- it was ALMOST as bad as my current fixup project. Overly long paragraphs of overly-claused sentences with too many vague pronouns and not near enough synonyms, as well as irresponsible adverbs, oh my.
Basic strategy: Slow down. Take your time. Re-read and re-write after sitting on the story for a week. Ask for help. Don't have a cow, man.
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