Posted my story after it was edited and it was still rejected

DanaLane

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I posted a story, it was rejected because of quotations, I sent it to an editor(angel was the name of the editor). She edited my story and sent it back. I copied and pasted it in the submissions section, and it was still denied for the same reason. Whats up with this?
 
Re: What's up with that

For both DanaLane and WineMaster,

I'm not a great author/editor, but I like to believe I've got the basics of quotation use and puntuation contained within down well. If either of you would like, you can send me your drafts (either via PM or e-mail - preferably e-mail with an .rtf attachment). I can give it a look-over with a reasonably quick turn-around.

Also, WineMaster, I tried looking at the story via the link you provided. There is none. Until the story is approved, no one else will be able to look at it other than yourself and the site administrators. Common courtesy suggests holding off on solicitation until after the story is posted, at which point, it'll probably have a different hyperlink address. Just a thought.

Cheers and good luck!
 
our good

I didn't realize that about the link....others were able to see it...I guess the administrators fixed that...ok...hopefully, you can look this over....
 
DanaLane said:
I posted a story, it was rejected because of quotations, I sent it to an editor(angel was the name of the editor). She edited my story and sent it back. I copied and pasted it in the submissions section, and it was still denied for the same reason. Whats up with this?

Some time ago Whispersecret wrote a How To you may find helpful:


http://english.literotica.com:81/stories/showstory.php?id=8982

Winemaster said:
I haev a story I am trying to get feedback on and worried the same will happen to me.....how are you doing with your story?



https://forum.literotica.com/...94&page=1&pp=25

As FE said, a little early, but when it does come out, you may want to try this forum instead: https://forum.literotica.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
 
Revelation - editing process

I have submitted 4 stories (chapters) of the story Revelation. The first two submissions were accepted, the third rejected (with no reason given that I could find) and the fourth is still in the process of being 'approved'.

It appears that an inordinate amount of time is spent in sending these chapters through a multitude of editors - 4 have, or are now, reviewing a resubmitted chapter 3 and 9 have, or are now, reviewing chapter 4.

Chapters 1 and 2 of this story have garnered 4.78 and 4.88 viewer ratings.

While I am not a previously published author, I nonetheless have a strong command of the English language and pride myself that my writing is entertaining. I find that too often, editors have a slavish dedication to somewhat arcane and, in some instances, obsolete rules of punctuation.
Punctuation in a story should be used to try and communicate to the reader the story as if it were being spoken to him or them. After all, a business letter and and a story both communicate to the recipient but they are two entirely
different forms of communications and each has its own unique flavor and purpose.

Perhaps a more streamlined process could be instituted to determine whether or not a story is 'acceptable'.
 
chiefX39 said:
I have submitted 4 stories (chapters) of the story Revelation. The first two submissions were accepted, the third rejected (with no reason given that I could find) and the fourth is still in the process of being 'approved'.

It appears that an inordinate amount of time is spent in sending these chapters through a multitude of editors - 4 have, or are now, reviewing a resubmitted chapter 3 and 9 have, or are now, reviewing chapter 4.

Chapters 1 and 2 of this story have garnered 4.78 and 4.88 viewer ratings.

While I am not a previously published author, I nonetheless have a strong command of the English language and pride myself that my writing is entertaining. I find that too often, editors have a slavish dedication to somewhat arcane and, in some instances, obsolete rules of punctuation.
Punctuation in a story should be used to try and communicate to the reader the story as if it were being spoken to him or them. After all, a business letter and and a story both communicate to the recipient but they are two entirely
different forms of communications and each has its own unique flavor and purpose.

Perhaps a more streamlined process could be instituted to determine whether or not a story is 'acceptable'.

The number of views does not mean number of editors. It simply means that the person (or people... many people believe only Laurel and Manu go through the stories but others say that's impossible as there are so many stories being submitted) who is posting stories has looked at it. You will usually get quite a few views before the story is posted though the number varies from time to time.

For those of you who are still getting rejection notices after having a story edited, I suggest pming Laurel and asking what the problem is.
 
CrimsonMaiden said:
The number of views does not mean number of editors. It simply means that the person (or people... many people believe only Laurel and Manu go through the stories but others say that's impossible as there are so many stories being submitted) who is posting stories has looked at it. You will usually get quite a few views before the story is posted though the number varies from time to time.

For those of you who are still getting rejection notices after having a story edited, I suggest pming Laurel and asking what the problem is.

What Crim said. :) It's clear, concise and to the point. :)
 
The thread starters story is now posted, the original had minor errors in the punctuation of quotations. I have seen stories with more and worse errors make it past the reviewers.
 
ggod thread to start

I have to agree with what I read in an earlier post. Veiws doesn't mean criticism....sometimes...I elect not to leave a comment...story was to plain or didn't want to leave a negative comment.
 
I posted a story that had a lot of slang and British spelling. It got rejected once, I looked through and found and corrected some errors, but they seemed a bit few in number for the story to be rejected (I mean, let's be real here - some of the shit that passes through editing on this site can't even be called English). So anyways, I resubmitted, and it gets rejected again for spelling errors. I put a note to the site editors in that little box for special instructions, saying that it contained quite a bit of slang (even things like "goin'" and "gonna" show up as errors on spellchecks) and could they please check it manually and bear in mind that British spelling was used. Then it got passed through.

I wonder if they just read through a couple of paragraphs to make sure there's no children who are gonna be molested, then just use spellcheck for the rest. Whatever their process is, if you're sure that these errors your story is being rejected for are non-existent, I would suggest checking it over and seeing if you've simply used a lot of slang/whatever it's called when you remove a 'g' and slap in an apostrophe, and if you have, write them a little note.
 
MzDeviancy said:
I posted a story that had a lot of slang and British spelling. It got rejected once, I looked through and found and corrected some errors, but they seemed a bit few in number for the story to be rejected (I mean, let's be real here - some of the shit that passes through editing on this site can't even be called English). So anyways, I resubmitted, and it gets rejected again for spelling errors. I put a note to the site editors in that little box for special instructions, saying that it contained quite a bit of slang (even things like "goin'" and "gonna" show up as errors on spellchecks) and could they please check it manually and bear in mind that British spelling was used. Then it got passed through.

I wonder if they just read through a couple of paragraphs to make sure there's no children who are gonna be molested, then just use spellcheck for the rest. Whatever their process is, if you're sure that these errors your story is being rejected for are non-existent, I would suggest checking it over and seeing if you've simply used a lot of slang/whatever it's called when you remove a 'g' and slap in an apostrophe, and if you have, write them a little note.

I've never had any issue with getting my stories through, and one of my major characters uses an exaggerated phonetic ( cardinal sin, I know but I like it ) style of speaking most of the time. If'n Celes' cacklin' can be gettin' through, I'm fer thinkin' it's not bein' a wee spot o' slang that's causin' t' issue.

Perhaps slang outside quotations may be subject to a higher level of scrutiny, if that's the case.
 
Darkniciad said:
I've never had any issue with getting my stories through, and one of my major characters uses an exaggerated phonetic ( cardinal sin, I know but I like it ) style of speaking most of the time. If'n Celes' cacklin' can be gettin' through, I'm fer thinkin' it's not bein' a wee spot o' slang that's causin' t' issue.

Perhaps slang outside quotations may be subject to a higher level of scrutiny, if that's the case.

Whoops, totally spaced on the problem being with quotation marks. Zoned out in the middle of my post. I know that sounds incredibly stupid, but, in the words of a girl I once worked with: I swear to God I'm not retarded. Just very, very...something somewhere between inattentive and ditzy.

Come to think of it though, I did try using slang outside quotation marks more on this story, so yeah, that sounds about right.
 
Yes this author is speaking of me. It took me two hours to edit her story. She broke every rule in the book on writing. I must have been on pain pills when I edited it and looking back over it in my archives I see that I DID in fact leave a few of her mistakes in concerning dialogue. Forgive me oh God's of Editors Past and Present . . . lol.

IF she had, however, sent it back to me and stated the problem I would have done everything to fix it as I have in the past when I've made a mistake on a story. YES I DO make MISTAKES!!!!

Seriously though, my apologies to the author and to all the good editors here for having to read this about me. I'm humbled in my own ineptness as a human being . . . :rolleyes:
 
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