Story keeps getting rejected

[DarkSwordsman]

I've been trying to upload a story for over two weeks now and it's been rejected FOUR times. It's been sent back three times saying the dialogue is formatted incorrectly (which it isn't) and once saying I need to upload it as an rtf, which I did, and it still wasn't published.

Seriously, what the hell?!

 

[Handley_Page]

I've been trying to upload a story for over two weeks now and it's been rejected FOUR times. It's been sent back three times saying the dialogue is formatted incorrectly (which it isn't) and once saying I need to upload it as an rtf, which I did, and it still wasn't published.

Seriously, what the hell?!

Have you considered an Editor, and maybe some explanatory Notes in the appropriate section ?

 

[NotWise]

I've been trying to upload a story for over two weeks now and it's been rejected FOUR times. It's been sent back three times saying the dialogue is formatted incorrectly (which it isn't) and once saying I need to upload it as an rtf, which I did, and it still wasn't published.

Seriously, what the hell?!

I can't look at the story you're having trouble with. I did go to the story site and check two of your other stories and in both cases the punctuation of the dialog has a consistent problem.

"Yeah, going to meet some friends" the teenager replied.

should be

"Yeah, going to meet some friends," the teenager replied.

Dialog within a sentence should be separated from the rest of the sentence by punctuation. The case above needs a comma, and the comma must go *inside* the quotation marks. If the quotation ends the sentence then you would use a period, but it must go *inside* the quotation marks. If the quotation follows within a sentence, then a comma should precede the quotation, but *outside* the quotation marks, like this:

The teenager replied, "Yeah, going to meet some friends."

Submitting your story as RTF doesn't change the need to fix the dialog. That just lets you use features like bold type and italics without inserting html tags.

Laurel skims through the stories pretty quickly. She may have missed the problem in your earlier stories, or she may have let it slip by because you were a new author. I assume the new story doesn't have new problems.

 

[jaF0]

Can you post a paragraph or two here for review?