Story rejected, what does reason mean?

[GforGraham]

What does this mean as reason for rejecting my latest story?
- Was the story not broken into appropriately sized paragraphs?

Not my first story, and I certainly haven't changed from how I break things down. Is there a clear guideline that advises minimum or maximum paragraph sizes. I looked through some guidelines before my first story but don't recall anything about this.
Any hints? I tried using the link given for editor on a previous story and never received any responses.

 

[yukonnights]

Can you state exactly what the rejection notice said? Kind of hard to know with so little to go on.

 

[GforGraham]

here is total message.

"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.

Was the story not broken into appropriately sized paragraphs?

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:"

Anyone like to read it to tell me what thry mean?

 

[yukonnights]

Basically what the site is trying to do is eliminate large unbroken walls of text. I would suggest that you take a quick look at several different stories and take note of the general size of the paragraphs.

Then break your story up into paragraphs at an appropriate place in the story.

Typically, each person in the story gets a new paragraph when the point of view shifts to them.

"Quoted dialogue always gets a new line break (paragraph) for each person," said Bob.

"Oh. I didn't know that," said Ralph.

"I knew it all along — but didn't want to share my knowledge," said Rascal.

Then the narration can go again in it's own special paragraph. And on and on...which can be quite a lot of sentences — but not so many it has no breaks.

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Read a story or two and you'll see — hope this helps.

 

[Todger65]

Basically what the site is trying to do is eliminate large unbroken walls of text. I would suggest that you take a quick look at several different stories and take note of the general size of the paragraphs.

Then break your story up into paragraphs at an appropriate place in the story.

Typically, each person in the story gets a new paragraph when the point of view shifts to them.

"Quoted dialogue always gets a new line break (paragraph) for each person," said Bob.

"Oh. I didn't know that," said Ralph.

"I knew it all along — but didn't want to share my knowledge," said Rascal.

Then the narration can go again in it's own special paragraph. And on and on...which can be quite a lot of sentences — but not so many it has no breaks.

****

Read a story or two and you'll see — hope this helps.

I agree with this and would add, a high percentage of readers are likely to use a phone or tablet with a small screen, therefore you need to think about how many words will be visible on a screen.

There is nothing more off-putting than being faced with a wall of text. This means shorter paragraphs and just as important a blank line between each paragraph.