Emily’s NEW positivity and being nice to each other thread

[EmilyMiller]

Hello again!

Is there a thread or somewhere I can go to for help (peer review) regarding my work being rejected due to AI? My story has just been rejected a second time, and I would like to have someone help me figure out why it might be getting rejected as AI. I know we can't really tell the real reason or criteria, but i dunno, maybe a second set of eyes could help me identify something I'm missing so I can edit it appropriately?

I've never been a writer and still am not. I just started because I wanted to share some erotic fantasies/thoughts my writing is definitely bad. I wouldn't be surprised if my bad writing is what is triggering the AI detection or whatever, so I thought maybe peer review could help me get through?

Hi,

I get your pain. But this thread isn’t really the place to look.

Some authors might have a little free time. Many will not.

A suggestion. Start a thread - your own. And post a few paragraphs of text. You can’t post too much as stuff rejected by the site is not meant to be published by the back door. But maybe the first two paragraphs.

Someone might see the problem. Then I’m kinda clutching at straws.

Em

 

[Bamagan]

Hello again!

Is there a thread or somewhere I can go to for help (peer review) regarding my work being rejected due to AI? My story has just been rejected a second time, and I would like to have someone help me figure out why it might be getting rejected as AI. I know we can't really tell the real reason or criteria, but i dunno, maybe a second set of eyes could help me identify something I'm missing so I can edit it appropriately?

I've never been a writer and still am not. I just started because I wanted to share some erotic fantasies/thoughts my writing is definitely bad. I wouldn't be surprised if my bad writing is what is triggering the AI detection or whatever, so I thought maybe peer review could help me get through?

There is no formal review process for AI rejections. There's a lot of backbiting and bickering, but as far as I know, no one has been able to give any advice other than to send it back with an assertion (hopefully true) that no tools utilizing large language models were used to construct or significantly edit the submission.

You can try to find a volunteer editor through your dashboard/control panel (it's on the dropdown menu), especially if you feel that the work needs polishing aside from overcoming the AI rejection. They have no special knowledge about that either, so far as I know, but that's probably a better place to start than the Author's Hangout.

 

[PrimeOptimal]

There is no formal review process for AI rejections. There's a lot of backbiting and bickering, but as far as I know, no one has been able to give any advice other than to send it back with an assertion (hopefully true) that no tools utilizing large language models were used to construct or significantly edit the submission.

You can try to find a volunteer editor through your dashboard/control panel (it's on the dropdown menu), especially if you feel that the work needs polishing aside from overcoming the AI rejection. They have no special knowledge about that either, so far as I know, but that's probably a better place to start than the Author's Hangout.

Thank you!

 

[onehitwanda]

I so wanted to buy my daughter a knitted Cthulu hat, but my wife was a hard no on that one. Sad... The thought of the other parents at her school when their 7 year olds asked for one, too... stolen from me.

so get her a headcrab!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/market/headcrab_hat

 

[HordHolm]

so get her a headcrab!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/market/headcrab_hat

I'll be eating out on my frozen balcony and sleeping on my doormat if I get her that...

 

[onehitwanda]

I'll be eating out on my frozen balcony and sleeping on my doormat if I get her that...

In other words, totally worth it for the squeals of glee!

 

[SimonDoom]

A photo to make everyone happy today. Beaver shortly after being released into the wild:

 

[Bamagan]

https://www.chriscannonauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2.gif

 

[AllenWoody]

Maybe the site should be renamed to Pompousrotica.

Em

Or Pampelmouserotica. The world needs more French citrus sex. It does.

 

[SimonDoom]

Or Pampelmouserotica. The world needs more French citrus sex. It does.

Nah, it just needs more beavers.

See, that's what I'm here for. Just when things get a little too insufferably hi-falutin', I'll bring us crashing refreshingly right back down into the gutter.

 

[onehitwanda]

Nah, it just needs more beavers.

See, that's what I'm here for. Just when things get a little too insufferably hi-falutin', I'll bring us crashing refreshingly right back down into the gutter.

https://external-preview.redd.it/MNkGzn2aFCEGRs6HQXPaC5UyLoVn9utEmoHNaiwRcME.jpg?auto=webp&s=a745a24d3fda552c03fc4095e81cc72f00c88f52

 

[EmilyMiller]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/6d/6f/666d6f6276d158e5891186852b4b4d60.gifPlease try to be nice to each other. There is really nothing more important in life.

 

[Djmac1031]

But I feel like if one of mine got reviewed, I'd be doing a lot of "Well yeah, I wasn't trying to do that... But did it work at far as what it was trying to do?

Which is EXACTLY why I didn't get into a debate over their "review" of my story. Because that's exactly what I'd have to do, point out the fact that they missed what my story was TRYING to do over their interpretation of what they thought it did.

And it wasn't worth my time or effort.

 

[Bazzle]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/6d/6f/666d6f6276d158e5891186852b4b4d60.gifPlease try to be nice to each other. There is really nothing more important in life.

Hey Em, I need that gif for one of my characters!

 

[lil_jenni]

By the way, it is an odd thing for a language to borrow a pronoun from another language, but there is a different set of English pronouns that, like 'you', were borrowed from another language. Anyone know or want to guess which ones?

Well, I guess no one wanted to play, so I'll just tell everyone.

'they/them/their' were borrowed into English form Old Norse sometime prior to Norman conquest in 1066. The Late West Saxon (Old English) pronouns were 'hie/heom/heora'.

 

[Bamagan]

Well, I guess no one wanted to play, so I'll just tell everyone.

'they/them/their' were borrowed into English form Old Norse sometime prior to Norman conquest in 1066. The Late West Saxon (Old English) pronouns were 'hie/heom/heora'.

You say borrowed, but really, it was a trade. The Norse got everything that wasn't nailed down, and the English got those pronouns and some thorns and a lingering urge to invade anything they landed on for the next 800 years or so.

 

[lil_jenni]

You say borrowed, but really, it was a trade. The Norse got everything that wasn't nailed down, and the English got those pronouns and some thorns and a lingering urge to invade anything they landed on for the next 800 years or so.

Yepper!

 

[StillStunned]

Well, I guess no one wanted to play, so I'll just tell everyone.

'they/them/their' were borrowed into English form Old Norse sometime prior to Norman conquest in 1066. The Late West Saxon (Old English) pronouns were 'hie/heom/heora'.

Despite two years of Old English, and translating large chunks of Beowulf and other poems, none of the grammar really stuck. It was the first thing out of my head when I decided to focus on Middle English.

 

[lil_jenni]

Despite two years of Old English, and translating large chunks of Beowulf and other poems, none of the grammar really stuck. It was the first thing out of my head when I decided to focus on Middle English.

I had a friend who did several semesters, including translating Beowulf. I would have, but I had to focus on classes on teaching methods, most of which I have never used when actually teaching...

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/6d/6f/666d6f6276d158e5891186852b4b4d60.gifPlease try to be nice to each other. There is really nothing more important in life.

The sun shines less bright today,
The winds blow less crisp

The fire we share burns less warm tonight,
as angels and demons wander lost in the mist.

The stories we tell have lost some cheer
our voices missing a note

Leaving only the echoes past
of the ones now so remote

But trails lead forth to better times
for those who wander and those who stay near

Our hearts should fill with a special warmth
as their memories drift soft on the air

Stories told and laughter shared
made so many burders light

Let us hold those close who have touched our lives
and wish them well till they return to our side

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I had a friend who did several semesters, including translating Beowulf. I would have, but I had to focus on classes on teaching methods, most of which I have never used when actually teaching...

Congratulations! Never used those methods? Then it's very likely you are a very good teacher. I quickly realized when doing my M.Ed. that most methods were based on "theories" of learning developed by people who had no idea what learning actually was. And didn't do any real research to figure it out. If any of them had actually read the literature, they would have seen that their ideas were half-baked versions of theories they never read. One prof I had developed a method that he thought was entirely novel, but was just a rehash of the 1960s 'Programmed Learning Aids,' a method that the Masters of the University of Paris had indirectly refuted in 1304.
A good teacher doesn't use a 'method;' a good teacher stays honest and true to her/him self. The students - at any age - recognize the natural honesty of it and respond in kind.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Despite two years of Old English, and translating large chunks of Beowulf and other poems, none of the grammar really stuck. It was the first thing out of my head when I decided to focus on Middle English.

Olde English, Middle English, so you actually get all the dirty jokes in The Canterbury Tales?

 

[StillStunned]

Olde English, Middle English, so you actually get all the dirty jokes in The Canterbury Tales?

It's been a while, but as I recall we had a few laughs. More than I ever had at Shakespeare, that's for sure.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

It's been a while, but as I recall we had a few laughs. More than I ever had at Shakespeare, that's for sure.

Speaking of the bard, I quoted him in a limerick. Somehow, I think he'd approve.

 

[StillStunned]

Speaking of the bard,

Did you call him that just to annoy me?