Rejected for spelling errors?

[tenyari]

What gives...

Well my Ebony story was just rejected for spelling errors, and I know for a fact it has none other than those desired, so I'm giving up on submitting to Literotica again until I can get something other than a form letter for the rejection.


Yes, it has a lot of underlined red in Word... but hey, its fantasy genre, and words like 'naga' don't exist in English... and names like Meyani or Jaza are not proper in English, nor is 'jism' and yes, 'limp dicked' is something Word thinks has no place in the English language... but ignore that and 'Spelling' is not at issue...

Never had this much trouble back when I was submitting stuff here some years ago...

 

[MagicaPractica]

Have you tried putting a note in the box at the bottom of the submission page explaining that the words being noted as misspellings are not? I think a person doesn't always look at it nowadays unless you do that.

 

[tenyari]

Yeah I just gave it one more try.

In looking I found 3 errors that were not nouns or sex-terms.

hairband, toetip, and aversaries.

Corrected to:

hair-band, toe-tip, and adversaries.

...

Other terms, like:

piercings...

Well I disagree with Word on that one.

And jism and cunny... well... those are in there by intent for the spots where I put them.

 

[sr71plt]

Have you tried putting a note in the box at the bottom of the submission page explaining that the words being noted as misspellings are not? I think a person doesn't always look at it nowadays unless you do that.

That should work.

 

[TxRad]

If you are using cut and paste a bot reads it. Try submitting it as a .doc file, if you haven't already.

 

[Guest]

Have you tried putting a note in the box at the bottom of the submission page explaining that the words being noted as misspellings are not? I think a person doesn't always look at it nowadays unless you do that.

What Magica said.

Good luck!

 

[Just-Legal]

Naga... I never want to think of them in an erotica context. Specially not after SSC *shudder*

 

[cloudy]

I'm giving up on submitting to Literotica again until I can get something other than a form letter for the rejection.

um, yeah...good luck with that. That's what everyone gets, why should you be any different?

 

[Stella_Omega]

...

And jism and cunny... well... those are in there by intent for the spots where I put them.

Anyone who uses the word "cunny" is okay with me!

The thing about Word is it is your servant. Tell it to learn those words-- and it will.

um, yeah...good luck with that. That's what everyone gets, why should you be any different?

This is true, The sheer tonnage of submissions these days precludes the kind of intimate service we used to get around here...

Was it ever intimate?

 

[tenyari]

No idea, my last submission was... 2002.

Wow, I thought I'd submitted since then here, but I guess I hadn't.

Still... if they're using a bot for spell checking, it needs a lot longer list of accepted nouns...

At the least common sex terms.

And every real world name on Earth.

Which wouldn't help me on this one... but still...

Hmmm... My last submission was extremely heavy on the urban street slang of the late 90s, and I don't recall needing special instructions for it. But then again, its been 6 years since I submitted it. I might have had to do a naked dance in front of pink elephants and I wouldn't be all that certain.

Not at all fond of using doc to submit. I never send doc files across the net. Does the submission process for files take odt (Open Office)? Pretty sure it doesn't, but it should.

I guess I have yet another week long wait until the next time the bot rejects it...

 

[Stella_Omega]

I think you could save it as an RTF file, and upload it that way...

Actually, you can save in Word format from OD.

 

[TxRad]

Several writers that I know here us Open Office so If it doest take the odt you can convert to doc and submit it that way. Humans read the files as far as I can tell. As apposed to bots.

 

[glynndah]

I copy and paste and I've never had any problems. I have had a few rejections but they were for easily fixed errors and, once corrected, posted within a reasonable amount of time. My last story posted in just about 24 hours, but I guess the bots like SciFi/Fantasy stories that are under 800 words.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I copy and paste and I've never had any problems. I have had a few rejections but they were for easily fixed errors and, once corrected, posted within a reasonable amount of time. My last story posted in just about 24 hours, but I guess the bots like SciFi/Fantasy stories that are under 800 words.

Not necessarily, my last Sci-Fi/Fantasy story was a little over 5,000 words and was up in three days. And I used many a word which was not in Words vocabulary or any dictionary of any kind, that I know of.