The title problem - story rejected twice

Edey

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Second part of my story was rejected for the second time.
The problem seems to be with the title and the way it's constructed.
The original title has ellipsis inside:
"I hate him..."
In the instruction I got was something like that:
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So faithfully following instructions - would mean only adding colon :)) at the end of the title.
I did it.
So I change my second part title to:
"I hate him...: No more"

It's exactly following instructions, yes - I'm aware that it looks weird but the original title HAS ellipsis (...) there!

I did it and my story is still sent back second time.
I'm confused.
What did I do wrong?

I received only these "instructions", nobody explained what should I change beyond this what I already did.

If I would change the title to:
"I hate him: No more", it would not be precise copy of original title.
 
My guess is, since the title gets loaded as the story's url, the ellipsis and the quotation marks might be bugging the script. Try:

I Hate Him - No More

And, ask for the title of the first part to be changed to:

I Hate Him

That way, the autoscript will work, and it will sequence your chapters in the right order.
 
But the instruction clearly says it has to have colon - : - inside if it's the second part.
It should look like that:
Series tile: Second part title
 
In the notes to the editor, when resubmitting the second story as, e.g., "I Hate Him Ch. 02: No More", ask the editor to rename the first story as, e.g., "I Hate Him Ch. 01: Bastard!"
 
In the notes to the editor, when resubmitting the second story as, e.g., "I Hate Him Ch. 02: No More", ask the editor to rename the first story as, e.g., "I Hate Him Ch. 01: Bastard!"
Ok but there is clearly a rule that you can actually name stories in that manner:
My life: Coming out
My life: First boyfriend
My life: First love

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You can, but then you need to keep the titles alphabetic to stay in order.
 
It would work like that:
I hate him...
I hate him...: No more

I now changed it to:
"I hate him: No more" <- maybe the ellipsis was the problem. I will see if it will be rejected probably today or tomorrow.
 
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