themightyxloph
Mighty Cool Dude
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Hi, guys,
Once again I've had a story rejected by Lit. In the past this has happened once because I skated a little too closely to the "no under 18's" rule but that was easily fixed. This time it's the plot that seems to be the problem.
The story in question comes from a different part of my mind, I suppose. It' s a dark, Lovecraft-ian thing in Victorian style, involving a group of intrepid explorers who are forced to submit to non-consensual but intensely pleasurable sex with (appropriately seductive) priestesses as a part of a ritual to awaken an ancient, slumbering evil. In the process our heroes perish (in fact they are turned into stone) save for the inevitable one who lives to tell the tale.
Thing is, Lit apparently feels that this is too much:
While I have no choice but to respect this, I do find it frustrating because, in my mind, this isn't any worse than some of the other stuff I've seen here. I remember (but can't find right now) a story in the SF&F or Non-consent category in which a female prisoner was forcibly sterilized with electricity applied to her ovaries, and there's more than one Succubus-themed one in the Erotic Horror section where one or more of the protagonists are turned into dessicated corpses.
In short, I can't help but feel that this is all very much subjective and arbitrary, and I wonder where, if anywhere at all, the line is being drawn and on which grounds.
Of course, Lit is a private site and whatever the operators decide is what goes, and I accept that. But at the same time I've spent a lot of time on this thing and I'm majorly bummed out by having it rejected for plot reasons that can't be fixed without rewriting it into essentially a completely different story.
What are your thoughts on this? Experiences? Suggestions?
I don't mind posting it here for your review, if that would help. (Or perhaps the Editors' forum would be the place to do that.) If so, should I simply paste it in here or are there other ways to post entire stories in this forum?
All response would be appreciated!
Once again I've had a story rejected by Lit. In the past this has happened once because I skated a little too closely to the "no under 18's" rule but that was easily fixed. This time it's the plot that seems to be the problem.
The story in question comes from a different part of my mind, I suppose. It' s a dark, Lovecraft-ian thing in Victorian style, involving a group of intrepid explorers who are forced to submit to non-consensual but intensely pleasurable sex with (appropriately seductive) priestesses as a part of a ritual to awaken an ancient, slumbering evil. In the process our heroes perish (in fact they are turned into stone) save for the inevitable one who lives to tell the tale.
Thing is, Lit apparently feels that this is too much:
While I have no choice but to respect this, I do find it frustrating because, in my mind, this isn't any worse than some of the other stuff I've seen here. I remember (but can't find right now) a story in the SF&F or Non-consent category in which a female prisoner was forcibly sterilized with electricity applied to her ovaries, and there's more than one Succubus-themed one in the Erotic Horror section where one or more of the protagonists are turned into dessicated corpses.
In short, I can't help but feel that this is all very much subjective and arbitrary, and I wonder where, if anywhere at all, the line is being drawn and on which grounds.
Of course, Lit is a private site and whatever the operators decide is what goes, and I accept that. But at the same time I've spent a lot of time on this thing and I'm majorly bummed out by having it rejected for plot reasons that can't be fixed without rewriting it into essentially a completely different story.
What are your thoughts on this? Experiences? Suggestions?
I don't mind posting it here for your review, if that would help. (Or perhaps the Editors' forum would be the place to do that.) If so, should I simply paste it in here or are there other ways to post entire stories in this forum?
All response would be appreciated!
But I can use some advise on how to go about that, which would start with the story itself, right?
