WHAT NOW? Story still "pending" a week later

[6227]

I posted a story and it was sent back with THIS as explanation.

• As our submission FAQ states, we do not accept stories involving people under the age of 18 in sexual situations. This includes but is not limited to talking explicitly about sex, voyeurism, exhibitionism, fantasizing, masturbation, and graphic sexualized descriptions, in addition to actual sexual intercourse. This also includes explicit flashbacks/past remembrances, descriptions of an underage person’s body/physical development and/or the reaction of other people to it; references to people under the age of 18 “playing doctor” or “sex education”. Please see this FAQ for more information: https://literotica.com/faq/publishing/publishing-guidelines

The ONLY thing I could find in my story was the part where the main character said they lost their virginity the night they graduated. Which (in the story's locale) was 18.
Okay, fine. I went back and edited the story to make that explicit. Resubmitted the story and .... crickets. nothing. nada.

I've since decided to just remove the story.

I don't submit stories, instead preferring to read occasionally. But this experience has me glad I spend my time writing for more serious, technical publications (and have a good editor).
I guess what really bugs me is the number of very poorly written stories that get posted with horrible grammar, spelling, syntax, etc.

 

[Todger65]

I posted a story and it was sent back with THIS as explanation.

• As our submission FAQ states, we do not accept stories involving people under the age of 18 in sexual situations. This includes but is not limited to talking explicitly about sex, voyeurism, exhibitionism, fantasizing, masturbation, and graphic sexualized descriptions, in addition to actual sexual intercourse. This also includes explicit flashbacks/past remembrances, descriptions of an underage person’s body/physical development and/or the reaction of other people to it; references to people under the age of 18 “playing doctor” or “sex education”. Please see this FAQ for more information: https://literotica.com/faq/publishing/publishing-guidelines

The ONLY thing I could find in my story was the part where the main character said they lost their virginity the night they graduated. Which (in the story's locale) was 18.
Okay, fine. I went back and edited the story to make that explicit. Resubmitted the story and .... crickets. nothing. nada.

I've since decided to just remove the story.

I don't submit stories, instead preferring to read occasionally. But this experience has me glad I spend my time writing for more serious, technical publications (and have a good editor).
I guess what really bugs me is the number of very poorly written stories that get posted with horrible grammar, spelling, syntax, etc.

Re submissions often take longer to process as Laurel is more likely to read over the parts initially described as a problem, rather than letting the bots do the hard work.

 

[FelHarper]

Re submissions often take longer to process as Laurel is more likely to read over the parts initially described as a problem, rather than letting the bots do the hard work.

I can confirm. I once had a story rejected because I messed up my italics tags. I corrected them, but it took much longer for my resubmission to get through.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've since decided to just remove the story.

I don't submit stories, instead preferring to read occasionally. But this experience has me glad I spend my time writing for more serious, technical publications (and have a good editor).
I guess what really bugs me is the number of very poorly written stories that get posted with horrible grammar, spelling, syntax, etc.

If you give up that easily, you shouldn't really complain. Everyone else has figured out how to get stories published on Lit, so can you.

First time writers always take longer to get their work through, especially if it's been knocked back on the under age rule - a word bot has probably picked up on something that human eyes would read as innocuous. I'd suggest you have another go, and wait a week or so - if there's no rejection, it will eventually get published.

Technical publications aren't erotica, though, just saying.