Oh dear the Nano story got rejected!!!!!

[pop_54]

Seems they don't like my, English English style of doing things here, spent a month and half pissing about writing it and buggering about with it to my liking so it flowed. Probably a few errors in the 58,000 words, but hey we aren't all perfect.

I certainly aint fucking trawling through it all again and fucking it up to add fucking puntuation like stupid question marks after obvious questions in dialogue, not for this fucking place anyway.

 

[Guest]

Aw, Pops. Bugger. long, hard hug,

Perdita

 

[whispering_surrender]

You could always PM it to all us adoring fans? *hint, hint, nudge, nudge*

Whisp

Ps. *bats eyelashes* (for extra encouragement)

 

[pop_54]

Hehe!!!

You could always PM it to all us adoring fans? *hint, hint, nudge, nudge*

Whisp

Ps. *bats eyelashes* (for extra encouragement)

Love to darling, but at that size it would take a hell of a lot of Pm's, I might re-submit it one day. Maybe there weren't enough,

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh's and Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh's Oh God I'm cumminggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg's in it, they accept that sort of shit.

 

[KillerMuffin]

You mean you don't have to use punctuation in England?

Bugger that.

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmmm

You mean you don't have to use punctuation in England?

Bugger that.

We use what we want it's our language, sorry didn't I put a comma after. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,

 

[LorriLove]

ha a joke

You mean you don't have to use punctuation in England?

Bugger that.

hay lady, if you lot can change the spellings about to suit yourselves, we can leave a question mark out if we feel like it.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Re: ha a joke

hay lady, if you lot can change the spellings about to suit yourselves, we can leave a question mark out if we feel like it.

Hey Lorri! LTNS!

*HUGS*

More *HUGS* for pops. Sorry about your story being rejected

-Colly

 

[Guest]

Lorri, love! Great to see you, especially without the red headlights

You speak the funnest English I've ever read, btw.

Perdita

 

[Linbido]

Sorry to hear that pop. Strange thing though, I skimmed through your approved stories, and they had no ? at questions either. But they got in. So if that was the main problemo, well I don't know...

ps. Hi Lorri!!!

luv,

 

[Dirt Man]

I really don't know how to comment on this one. I've seen a lot of stories posted on this site without the proper spell, and grammar check it needed, and that includes improper punctuation.

Did they say that it was rejected for improper punctuation? Or was it for some other reason altogether?

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

 

[Gary Chambers]

I like threads like this because they force me to read Literotica authors I haven't gotten around to before. I just read Naughty Marlene. Honest evaluation? Why not?

Pops has either studied good plot structure or just has a natural talent for it. The plotting wasn't magnificent, but it was more than competent. Grammar and punctuation weren't perfect, but better than I've seen from some who are paid to get it right. The story lines were bold. Pops does not play coy with his readers. Overall a 4 rating, which is good for me these days.

Pops' indignance over the rejection? Well, we all have egos or we wouldn't be here. I don't know about Pops, but on days when I get it right I have to grease my chops to get my head through doors. On days when I get it wrong I blame it on pedantic editors and their Philistine readers.

Suggestion? Yeah that too. I'd take Whisper up on her offer. Send it by regular email so it doesn't take as many messages. Ask her if she'd mind doing a copy edit as she reads. I'd offer myself Pops, but I have a full plate right now. If Whisper doesn't feel like being a copy editor right now, then I think you're on the right track putting it away for a while before resubmitting. When you come back to it with fresh eyes, running through it to do a copy edit will seem perfectly natural, but I'm sure you know that.

Ever read Elmore Leonard? The guy has something against conjunctions. I read a whole novel of his (bestseller too) in which he simply left out the word 'and' everywhere it belonged. Just a thought. I'm not coming out on anybody's side on this one. On one hand a site that gets free content can't be too picky, and on the other, I'd be hard pressed to go to a 4 if I felt the writer was just taking the piss or being lazy.

Anyway, thanks for Naughty Marlene, Pops. It took me somewhere I seldom go, and made it a worthwhile trip. Hope things work out with the nano eventually. And by the way, what the fuck is a nano anyway?

 

[Guest]

Pops, what a pisser, eh? I know how damned hard you worked on that. Don't give up, though, I throughly enjoyed every excerpt you submitted in the NaNoWriMo support thread. You write bloody good stuff!

*hugs*

Lou

P.S. Gary, NaNo stands for National Novel, and is short for NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. Go here (the LitWridoNaNoWriMo support thread) to find out more, or even here (the NaNoWriMo site).

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I empathize, Pops. I know what it's like to finish some magnum opus and then have a change of heart and realize that you've got to go through the whole damned thing and change something: take out the fact that she has a wooden leg or something like that, something you can't just Search & Replace. It always happens when you're just sick of looking at the thing too.

Best thing is to just shelve it for a while. Either that, or find someone who's willing to edit it while they read. Would it be possible to run it through a grammar checker to find some of the missing punctuation?

As for the punctuation ityself, I don't know. It can be a tough call to tell when it's a case of missing comma or whether it's just the author's own personal style

---dr.M.

 

[Thunderbear]

e e cummings would approve, I'm sure

 

[Pure]

Its a bugger pops, i seen lotsa stories without good spelling and grammer here and you should just tel the asswholes to stop persekuting you.

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmm

I really don't know how to comment on this one. I've seen a lot of stories posted on this site without the proper spell, and grammar check it needed, and that includes improper punctuation.

Did they say that it was rejected for improper punctuation? Or was it for some other reason altogether?

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

Yeppers mate, it stated poor punctuation nothing more, I expect they'll think of something else later if I repost it

Well thanks for all your words of support and empathy good friends.

Dearest Purdy, the lovely whispers, Colly, Lin, and Lou, and ta guys, DM , Garry, Dr Mab's, also thunder and pure you piss taking buggers.

I will no doubt repost it now I'm sober one day soon.

PS: Glad you liked Naughty Marlene Garry, that's one of my fav's cos it flowed quite well from the brain, if I remember it was written checked over briefly and posted to Lit on the same day.

 

[Mysteryjj]

Hi pops

pops that's shit, I remember last time I was posting here you were writing the story on the NaNoWrimo thing.

Like tatelou I loved the extracts, I can't for the life of me see why from those extracts, it would be rejected

As you rightly say they accept so much over the top and badly written sex shit on this site, yet reject a decent work.

I can only think it was all a bit confusing for them being a very British thing.

Never mind hun, keep trying to get it here, if not why don't you take it somewhere else it may be appreciated.

As you know hun I've read all your stuff and like Garry above, enjoyed most of it. I don't feel you need any editors, you're qualified for that yourself, don't let them fuck with your style and story just to get it here.

JJ xxx