Story sent back or rejected difference

Phelipe

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I wrote only 1 story and it was sent back. Does sent back=rejected or it's 2 separate things? It's my 1st story so I never had story rejected yet only sent back.
Also this is the reason:

"We appreciate the effort you put into your work. Literotica is a storytelling community centered on the sharing of human fantasies. If you are using Grammarly, ProWritingAid, Quillbot or similar software (including Microsoft Word grammar check), you should be aware that many modern writing packages incorporate AI. If you are using a grammar check program to review your work so that you can make changes (as a spellcheck, to flag punctuation, review grammar, and/or occasionally as a thesaurus), that should be fine. If you are allowing a grammar check program such as Grammarly to “rewrite” your words or rephrase your text, that may cross the line into AI generated text/stories (since substantial parts of the final draft may not be written by you). Please see this FAQ for more information: https://literotica.com/faq/publishing/publishing-ai NOTE: the sentence at the end of this response [[Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions.]] does not apply to stories rejected for content or AI issues. Volunteer Editors can help only with grammar, punctuation, and story mechanics issues and are not equipped to deal with AI issues. You may resubmit after you’ve made revisions."
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So if I understand well since this site doesn't allow AI then if story was suspected to be written by AI then it should be REJECTED but it was SENT BACK instead.
Im asking especially beacuse of this part "does not apply to stories rejected for content or AI issues"
So what can I do to get it published?
Also if someone could explain sent back / rejected diffrences (sorry if dumb question lol). For example can rejected stories be submitted again or no since sent back can but they just need some improvements right?
 
I wrote only 1 story and it was sent back. Does sent back=rejected or it's 2 separate things? It's my 1st story so I never had story rejected yet only sent back.
Also this is the reason:

"We appreciate the effort you put into your work. Literotica is a storytelling community centered on the sharing of human fantasies. If you are using Grammarly, ProWritingAid, Quillbot or similar software (including Microsoft Word grammar check), you should be aware that many modern writing packages incorporate AI. If you are using a grammar check program to review your work so that you can make changes (as a spellcheck, to flag punctuation, review grammar, and/or occasionally as a thesaurus), that should be fine. If you are allowing a grammar check program such as Grammarly to “rewrite” your words or rephrase your text, that may cross the line into AI generated text/stories (since substantial parts of the final draft may not be written by you). Please see this FAQ for more information: https://literotica.com/faq/publishing/publishing-ai NOTE: the sentence at the end of this response [[Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions.]] does not apply to stories rejected for content or AI issues. Volunteer Editors can help only with grammar, punctuation, and story mechanics issues and are not equipped to deal with AI issues. You may resubmit after you’ve made revisions."
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So if I understand well since this site doesn't allow AI then if story was suspected to be written by AI then it should be REJECTED but it was SENT BACK instead.
Im asking especially beacuse of this part "does not apply to stories rejected for content or AI issues"
So what can I do to get it published?
Also if someone could explain sent back / rejected diffrences (sorry if dumb question lol). For example can rejected stories be submitted again or no since sent back can but they just need some improvements right?
The part you bolded is saying that if you used AI in any way in the creation of this story, a volunteer editor might not be able to help you.
 
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Also if someone could explain sent back / rejected diffrences (sorry if dumb question lol). For example can rejected stories be submitted again or no since sent back can but they just need some improvements right?
Sent back = rejected. Rejected stories can be reworked and resubmitted, but you should note that resubmissions typically take longer to be published and accessible.
 
I wrote only 1 story and it was sent back. Does sent back=rejected or it's 2 separate things? It's my 1st story so I never had story rejected yet only sent back.
Also this is the reason:

"We appreciate the effort you put into your work. Literotica is a storytelling community centered on the sharing of human fantasies. If you are using Grammarly, ProWritingAid, Quillbot or similar software (including Microsoft Word grammar check), you should be aware that many modern writing packages incorporate AI. If you are using a grammar check program to review your work so that you can make changes (as a spellcheck, to flag punctuation, review grammar, and/or occasionally as a thesaurus), that should be fine. If you are allowing a grammar check program such as Grammarly to “rewrite” your words or rephrase your text, that may cross the line into AI generated text/stories (since substantial parts of the final draft may not be written by you). Please see this FAQ for more information: https://literotica.com/faq/publishing/publishing-ai NOTE: the sentence at the end of this response [[Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions.]] does not apply to stories rejected for content or AI issues. Volunteer Editors can help only with grammar, punctuation, and story mechanics issues and are not equipped to deal with AI issues. You may resubmit after you’ve made revisions."
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So if I understand well since this site doesn't allow AI then if story was suspected to be written by AI then it should be REJECTED but it was SENT BACK instead.
Im asking especially beacuse of this part "does not apply to stories rejected for content or AI issues"
So what can I do to get it published?
Also if someone could explain sent back / rejected diffrences (sorry if dumb question lol). For example can rejected stories be submitted again or no since sent back can but they just need some improvements right?

Did you use any automated tools for grammar, translation, etc.?
 
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Yes for grammar beacuse if I understand all these possible sent back reasons well also could cause story to be sent back.
 
Yes for grammar beacuse if I understand all these possible sent back reasons well also could cause story to be sent back.
This is understandable and unfortunate. Yes, grammar and spelling and punctuation (or SPAG) is a reason one might receive a rejection, however the use of AI has now potentially tainted your work in a way that makes corrections difficult and publication unlikely. Literotica has guard rails in place to keep AI writing out, and aggressive AI grammar checks can make your own work indistinguishable.
 
No. What if I rewrote the whole story completly changed words, sentences maybe add or delete something would that work?
 
No. What if I rewrote the whole story completly changed words, sentences maybe add or delete something would that work?
Two questions then

1) is this a written story? We're having this conversation in the "Audio" subsection of the Author's Hangout forum

2) is this written story in English?
 
My submissions are just sitting without being sent back nor published. They just ignore them.
Don't post the same thing in every forum, it doesn't help your case. See my response to your post elsewhere, suggesting what you can do. As I said there, you're not being "ignored" - there's been a system wide glitch these last couple of months where stories appear to get lost. Which is a different thing to being "ignored", which implies a deliberate action, which I very much doubt.
 
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