rejected, no specific reason??

[Adamant0127]

I believe my story is reasonably well written and it was rejected twice. I have been told by others (albeit friends) that the story is pretty good and I have been published in the past.

There is a brief encounter with a dog that nuzzles a naked female when she pets him (in the story) but no one would consider this story bestiality by any stretch. If that is the reason it was rejected I would edit it or remove it all together but no such reason was given.

Help!

I have other stories but this one is a little different than most here and I like it.

 

[KillerMuffin]

The editor always gives a reason for rejection. It's built into the program.

Click the word "rejected" in the submission's view page by the story's title and it will take you to the story editing page where you can edit the story as well as read why the editor rejected it.

If you have further questions, I'll be glad to help if I can!

 

[Adamant0127]

The only thing that comes up when I click the rejected link is the following canned message. If this is really the reason then I'm not sure wht they are talking about as the story is paragraphed well enough. I would be happy to share it with an editor if anyone is interrested. Perhaps I should try that:

Dear Writer,

Thank you for your submission to Literotica. We appreciate the time and effort you've taken to write a story and submit it to our site. However, we've found that we cannot post your submission in its current form. The checklist below may help you in re-examining your manuscript.


Please use ending punctuation with all of your dialogue. See the essay "How to Make Characters Talk" or "How to Punctuate Like a Pro" in our Writer's Resources section if you have further questions. Some of your paragraphs are too large to fit comfortably on a small monitor with low resolution--as a signficant portion of our readers have--please cut them down a bit. Thanks!
Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions. You can find a list of Volunteer Editors here.

Please consult our Writer's Resources section and make sure you read our submission guidelines:

If you have any questions on these, please let us know.


Thanks for your time, and look forward to reading you again!

Laurel & Manu
Literotica.Com

 

[KillerMuffin]

Ah. That means pretty much what it says.

Here's a few examples of some problems that occur to get that particular rejection. Not having seen your story, I can't tell you exactly, but if you can probably fix it yourself without trouble.

People frequently leave out commas in the dialogue. For example:

"Hello" he said.
or
He said "Hello."

The correct way to do it is:

"Hello," he said.
or
He said, "Hello."

Another frequent error that gets this particular rejection is that punctuation gets left out altogether so it goes something like this:

"Hello"
"Hi, how are you"
"Fine, thanks for asking"

The proper punctuation goes inside of the quotation marks.

"Hello."
"Hi, how are you?"
"Fine, thanks for asking!"

In response to the sheer volume of reader complaints, the editor recently has gotten a little more picky about basic mechanical problems like spelling, punctuation, and paragraph formatting. The criteria hasn't changed, though. Is it noticeable? That is, does the mistake call attention to itself through repetition or prominent location in the story? If the answer is no, the story is posted; if yes, rejected.

As for the paragraphs, it's about white space and comfort, not technical accuracy. Most people read Lit stories on a screen with a flash rate. It puts eye strain to on a reader to keep track of the sentences so white space is very important. Smaller paragraphs make it easier to track the story because the white space not only gives a brief break from concentrating your eyes on a line, it helps keep your place in the paragraph.