Rejected story, need advice.

[skip5236]

I have about 15 or 16 published stories, and am having a problem with a new one I wrote that I never encountered before.

I wrote a story about a fictitious online community of people who play strip poker. The story is pure fiction, the website is pure fiction and always will be. The story was rejected for advertising or linking to a website. So I did some more work on it...removing the fake url and just referring to the site as 'All In' with no dotcom attached. I prefaced the story as being totally fictitious. And I got rejected again for the same reason.

There must be a way to write a story that revolves around a website that doesn't exist, it is too big a part of life to be impossible...any ideas or advice?

 

[PacoFear]

Nifty problem. I see Lit's point of view though - they don't want you (or someone else) setting up a webpage and using this story on Lit as an elaborate advertisement.

Seems to me that you could avoid the entire problem by not referring to the website by any name at all couldn't you? Just refer to it as "a popular gambling website."

 

[sr71plt]

I've had a cybersex story rejected for giving a fictitious URL too. Had to write the URL out of the story to have it accepted. That's just the way it is.

 

[sdsioux]

Seems like you understand the rules.

 

[Cold_Eyes]

Try changing the name to something unusual for a poker site or leave it out. There have been tons of online casinos or poker-related websites using "All In" in the name or url, and the mods probably got confused or didn't want anything that might be construed as an ad for one of those sites on Lit.