waiting on my story to get published

[werdsmith]

does it really take 72 hours (bites nails).

Werd

 

[CharleyH]

does it really take 72 hours (bites nails).

Werd

Up to 7 days - but dont bite your nails unless you have crap grammar.

 

[werdsmith]

Up to 7 days - but dont bite your nails unless you have crap grammar.

I think my grammar is ok, but when you read something so many times your eyes cross, you begin to second guess yourself.

Its my first submission, I hope everyone likes it.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I hate the waiting for a story to be... I'm too tired to think of the word right now. Passed? something... I hate it...

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I think my grammar is ok, but when you read something so many times your eyes cross, you begin to second guess yourself.

Its my first submission, I hope everyone likes it.

Welcome to the AH.

It will probably be posted before you know it. Then you can occupy yourself with looking at your rating every five minutes like a lot of us do when a story first goes up.

 

[werdsmith]

Welcome to the AH.

It will probably be posted before you know it. Then you can occupy yourself with looking at your rating every five minutes like a lot of us do when a story first goes up.

Thanks for the welcome, I'm looking forward to the feedback. Its a lot more fun writing about sex than writing technical manuals and software testing procedures..lol

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Thanks for the welcome, I'm looking forward to the feedback. Its a lot more fun writing about sex than writing technical manuals and software testing procedures..lol

I'd imagine so. Just don't get them mixed up or you might end up with a rather interesting technical manual.

 

[werdsmith]

I'd imagine so. Just don't get them mixed up or you might end up with a rather interesting technical manual.

sounds like a good potential story.

 

[English Lady]

yes, hope springs eternal but expect a week of waiting and hopefuly then you'll be plesantly surprised. Let us know the link for the story when it is approved!

 

[Alex De Kok]

sounds like a good potential story.

Yeah! Field testing the new sex android, so the manual can be prepared. Hmm . . .

Alex

 

[MagicaPractica]

My last two took over two weeks and I had posted them into the box provided with all appropriate html tags. Nothing was changed, it just took a really long time. They weren't even multi page stories.

 

[oggbashan]

This is THE Question...

...yet no one has given THE Answer.

It always takes one day longer than you think is unreasonably long and depends on which way the wind is blowing and the cost of rearing sheep in Rhode Island...

Og

 

[MagicaPractica]

...yet no one has given THE Answer.

It always takes one day longer than you think is unreasonably long and depends on which way the wind is blowing and the cost of rearing sheep in Rhode Island...

Og

Are you including vet bills in that?

 

[werdsmith]

dammit, I got rejected...

"Please break up & fix the punctuation of your dialogue. The convention is one speaker per paragraph, so whenever someone new says something, start a new a paragraph. Also, with dialogue you include periods, commas, exclamation points, or question marks inside the quotes. The essay "How to Make Characters Talk" in our Writer's Resources section has more information on the paragraph formatting of dialogue if you have further questions. "

back to the drawing board

 

[Guest]

 

[OhMissScarlett]

dammit, I got rejected...

"Please break up & fix the punctuation of your dialogue. The convention is one speaker per paragraph, so whenever someone new says something, start a new a paragraph. Also, with dialogue you include periods, commas, exclamation points, or question marks inside the quotes. The essay "How to Make Characters Talk" in our Writer's Resources section has more information on the paragraph formatting of dialogue if you have further questions. "

back to the drawing board

You'll get it ironed out. There are a lot of good resources around here for help.

 

[werdsmith]

I'm working on it, I'll send it to any volunteers that want to see it when I'm done.
-Werd

 

[werdsmith]

I hope I didn't just crash the PM system sending it to someone for review.

 

[TheGreatRaja]

I submitted one back in july, never heard another word about it either way. It just vanished I guess

 

[Vermilion]

Well I was waiting nearly a week to have a story - any story - accepted, then two get approved at once.
Well Hallelujah. Now I'm already impatient waiting for the next one!
There's a brief rush when you see it's been approved and check any ratings etc, then you're back to nail-biting.

It's an endless circle of torture.
x
V

 

[werdsmith]

rejected again (sigh), I just resubmitted it with the suggestions from MagicaPatrica in place, try try again.
Werd

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

rejected again (sigh), I just resubmitted it with the suggestions from MagicaPatrica in place, try try again.
Werd

Werd,

Try saving the story to a plain text (txt) file. Then go through it and manually insert a blank line between each paragraph. (in the old typrwriter days, that was called a "hard carriage return") It's a pain, but regular formatted Word docs come out with no bland spaces.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[werdsmith]

Werd,

Try saving the story to a plain text (txt) file. Then go through it and manually insert a blank line between each paragraph. (in the old typrwriter days, that was called a "hard carriage return") It's a pain, but regular formatted Word docs come out with no bland spaces.

Rumple Foreskin

That was one thing that Magica did for me, hopefully that will help.

Werd

 

[Xina]

Glad to read this as I now know I'm not the only one waiting. I was wondering how long this took. Mine was rejected the first time too because I accedentaly forgot to remove the first two paragraphs which I'd written before I'd decided to make this a submitable story and it had the girl flashback to a time when she was under 18, not by much but enough to make it unacceptable.

It felt like it took well over a week the first time, I hope it is acceptable this time as I hate waiting. As it is I'm starting to wish I'd chosen a better story for my first attempt.

Perhaps I'll just throw another one up there right away rather than waiting this one out.

 

[Darkniciad]

Werd,

Try saving the story to a plain text (txt) file. Then go through it and manually insert a blank line between each paragraph. (in the old typrwriter days, that was called a "hard carriage return") It's a pain, but regular formatted Word docs come out with no bland spaces.

Rumple Foreskin

This is one of the few places where I'm at an advantage. My new editor tells me I'm a nutjob for working in Wordpad, plain text, only transferring over to Word for spell-check. It means I don't have any form of advanced formatting to deal with ( I insert the html as I write now ) and saves a lot of time in the end.

I only graduated to the "advanced" wordpad about three years ago actually, I worked in notepad up until then *laugh*

The more robust the program, the more it annoys me. I'm weird. I'm perfectly capable of using them, and do in fact for short stories sometimes to make things easier on my editor, but I'll always prefer the simplest, minimal footprint program for anything I do on my computer.