When story approved, and will it get through?

[headoverheelsguy]

Just wondering. I submitted on Monday.


Also my story is in taboo section. With the family members, it refers to them as brother and sister. However it does not give ANY mention of ages. Will it be rejected because of this? I automatically assumed that everyone would think it was 18+


thanks

 

[emap]

Well standard thinking of late is your story will be accepted after 7 days, longer during contests. However since you asked...

THE QUESTION

You are now cursed to wait an extra 10 days, after the requisite 7 days has passed again since you just put your story at the bottom of the pile again.

You could perhaps get lucky and one of the editors takes pity on you after giving you a raging case of the piles and accepts it sooner, or not.

Being accepted or not without a standard age reference hinges on a couple things, their speaking patterns, namely do they talk like adults or little kids. No seriously if they ever at any time talk like little kids for whatever reason your probably not accepted. Are they seniors in high school or graduated from? Attending college or waiting to attend are good indicators they are above 18, since most people are before getting accepted or going to.

 

[driphoney]

Well, I haven't posted anything in a few weeks eek but all mine were approved in 3 days. Midnight or shortly after on the 3rd day to be specific. My chapters were about 2 Lit pages, that might matter. Interracial and Erotic Couplings.

 

[sr71plt]

Mine have always posted in three days except when a contest was on and then it was sometimes five days if it wasn't a contest entry. (But don't click on the submit button again during that period, or it will flip to the end of the queue again.)

My latest was submitted Tuesday and was posted this morning.

 

[Darkniciad]

Emap's right. If you don't have ages or age-identifying things such as graduation, off to college, legally buying lottery tickets, etc., then it's going to come down to whether the dialogue/actions seem like someone who is of legal age to the moderators.

In the case of a sibling story, you have another hurdle to jump. Unless they're twins, you have an automatic age gap. If brother barely comes off as legal age, and sis is supposed to be a year younger...

If it comes back to you with an underage rejection, don't panic. It may be as simple as a disclaimer in an author's note at the beginning of the text stating that all of the characters engaged in sexual activity of any kind are 18 or older. Unless the characters just come off as undoubtedly immature and underage, that will probably do the trick.

The moderators are very strict with that rule, and with the necessity of rapid approval of around 70 stories per day, they can be quick on the draw with that rejection. Even a moderator note stating that all of the characters are of legal age may be enough for them to review it more carefully and decide that the story can go through as written.

If it does come down to a rejection, you can try the editor's forum to have someone look it over for you for red flags that might have triggered an underage rejection, or someone may even offer here in this thread, if you bring it back up to the top with a new reply if/when the hammer comes down.

 

[headoverheelsguy]

Emap's right. If you don't have ages or age-identifying things such as graduation, off to college, legally buying lottery tickets, etc., then it's going to come down to whether the dialogue/actions seem like someone who is of legal age to the moderators.

In the case of a sibling story, you have another hurdle to jump. Unless they're twins, you have an automatic age gap. If brother barely comes off as legal age, and sis is supposed to be a year younger...

If it comes back to you with an underage rejection, don't panic. It may be as simple as a disclaimer in an author's note at the beginning of the text stating that all of the characters engaged in sexual activity of any kind are 18 or older. Unless the characters just come off as undoubtedly immature and underage, that will probably do the trick.

The moderators are very strict with that rule, and with the necessity of rapid approval of around 70 stories per day, they can be quick on the draw with that rejection. Even a moderator note stating that all of the characters are of legal age may be enough for them to review it more carefully and decide that the story can go through as written.

If it does come down to a rejection, you can try the editor's forum to have someone look it over for you for red flags that might have triggered an underage rejection, or someone may even offer here in this thread, if you bring it back up to the top with a new reply if/when the hammer comes down.

Damn, thats very annoying. I should have thought of this. My story is only 1800 words long (but its in chapters so more to follow). Is there anyway I can ask the mods to put on a disclaimer tag before it gets rejected (if it does).


Reading through my story I can detect NO mention of age anywhere, and whilst there is sexual play, there is nothing "hardcore" in it.

 

[Darkniciad]

Damn, thats very annoying. I should have thought of this. My story is only 1800 words long (but its in chapters so more to follow). Is there anyway I can ask the mods to put on a disclaimer tag before it gets rejected (if it does).


Reading through my story I can detect NO mention of age anywhere, and whilst there is sexual play, there is nothing "hardcore" in it.

Even a touch or thinking about it in too much detail is enough for a rejection, if the moderators feel that the characters are underaged.

At this point, with a couple of days already invested in the queue, you may as well just see if it goes through as written.

Tell you what -- if you want to send me a copy of the story, I'll look through it and see if I detect any red flags. That way, if it does get rejected, you'll be ahead of the game to amend the text on the first chapter, and ready to make any changes on further chapters, already in progress, before the hammer comes down.

Just send me a PM with the story pasted into the body of the message. If I'm remembering correctly, 1800 words should fit in a single PM.

 

[headoverheelsguy]

Yep it was just refused :|

I stuck a disclaimer and a personal note to the mods and resubmitted. Do I have to wait the entire time again?

thanks

 

[Darkniciad]

Yep it was just refused :|

I stuck a disclaimer and a personal note to the mods and resubmitted. Do I have to wait the entire time again?

thanks

Most likely -- yes. On rare occasions, resubmits and edits may jump the queue, but 90% of the time they go through on the normal schedule.

I assume that the rejection was for possible underage characters?

 

[headoverheelsguy]

Most likely -- yes. On rare occasions, resubmits and edits may jump the queue, but 90% of the time they go through on the normal schedule.

I assume that the rejection was for possible underage characters?

Yep along with another complaint about speech structure. There is nothing wrong with my speech structure (I was top in school for english), so nothing needed to be changed.

 

[Darkniciad]

Yep along with another complaint about speech structure. There is nothing wrong with my speech structure (I was top in school for english), so nothing needed to be changed.

It's easy enough to make a typo and overlook something in your own stuff, though. Your eyes see what's supposed to be there, as opposed to what is. You might want to try changing the font size/face and look it over again, keying in on the dialogue to see if you have some punctuation out of place, a missing quote mark, etc.

When it comes to grammar rejections, they're usually founded.

Since you just resubmitted it, you won't lose much if you catch it. You can click the "pending" link and edit any typos that you catch, only losing a few hours of queue position, as opposed to days waiting for it to bubble back up to the top of the queue.

 

[_Lynn_]

It's easy enough to make a typo and overlook something in your own stuff, though. Your eyes see what's supposed to be there, as opposed to what is. You might want to try changing the font size/face and look it over again, keying in on the dialogue to see if you have some punctuation out of place, a missing quote mark, etc.

When it comes to grammar rejections, they're usually founded.

Since you just resubmitted it, you won't lose much if you catch it. You can click the "pending" link and edit any typos that you catch, only losing a few hours of queue position, as opposed to days waiting for it to bubble back up to the top of the queue.

I thought the same thing. The story is in our mind, as we intended it to be. That doesn't mean all those details are in it, or are explained right. Errors are easy to miss when we've gone over it so often we know the words. That's where having a good editor check it helps. They catch what we don't.

 

[sr71plt]

Yep along with another complaint about speech structure. There is nothing wrong with my speech structure (I was top in school for english), so nothing needed to be changed.

If they identified "speech structure" there must be either something they don't like in formatting (sure you've put dialogue by separate characters in separate paragraphs?) or use of quotes (if you use single quotes to mark dialogue--or haven't folded commas and terminal periods inside the quote marks, they may reject, because the Web site uses the American system, not the British system). If you want to save yet another rejection for the speech structure, you might post a paragraph or two of dialogue so that someone here might be able to identify what the editors don't like.