First try at writing erotica

[jaxsteeples]

I Thought the best thank you would be if you saw my work with your corrections get published. As I thought about this, I was hoping you were enjoying your weekend excursion. I didn't want to spoil it, or mar any afterglow, by telling you that I have posted the work twice by accident and they may publish the uncorrected version. If they don't, I'm going for the record of the numbers of rejections and corrections. We will get there in the end, possibly.

Thank you very much.

 

[jaxsteeples]

Reason for rejection No 2:

Please keep strings of text or characters between spaces to less than 30 then the text of your story will bleed into the blue field and become illegible. For more information, see this FAQ: http://www.literotica.com/faq/05235347.shtml#07126769

Ain't got a clue what this means .

What is a "text string"? Pre human part of brain offered advice - suggests something black, white and slightly elastic, sort of elastic at the top and cotton the rest . Perhaps it was thinking of something else. Yep panties with black lettering on the elastic . Well thanks anyway Pre-human part of brain. Inspired guess.

"If there are too many characters between spaces"- What spaces?

Does it mean no more than thirty letters on one line? Do I have to count them all? Why doesn't it say: There is a box. Its got a blue edge. Make sure there are no more than thirty letters on each line between the blue edges of the box.

What is a blue field BTW? Is this a danger area like on maps? Are words little innocents, wandering into the equivalent White Sands Missile Range?


May I remind you of rejection number 1.

"Please fix the formatting of the punctuation. Generally, the rule is to have no spaces before most punctuation (periods, commas, exclamation points, etc.), and one space after them."


Note eds. typo in second rejection:

"characters.,"

I have no right to criticize,whatsoever.

 

[sr71plt]

Reason for rejection No 2:

Please keep strings of text or characters between spaces to less than 30 then the text of your story will bleed into the blue field and become illegible. For more information, see this FAQ: http://www.literotica.com/faq/05235347.shtml#07126769

Ain't got a clue what this means .

What is a "text string"? Pre human part of brain offered advice - suggests something black, white and slightly elastic, sort of elastic at the top and cotton the rest . Perhaps it was thinking of something else. Yep panties with black lettering on the elastic . Well thanks anyway Pre-human part of brain. Inspired guess.

"If there are too many characters between spaces"- What spaces?

Does it mean no more than thirty letters on one line? Do I have to count them all? Why doesn't it say: There is a box. Its got a blue edge. Make sure there are no more than thirty letters on each line between the blue edges of the box.

What is a blue field BTW? Is this a danger area like on maps? Are words little innocents, wandering into the equivalent White Sands Missile Range?


May I remind you of rejection number 1.

"Please fix the formatting of the punctuation. Generally, the rule is to have no spaces before most punctuation (periods, commas, exclamation points, etc.), and one space after them."


Note eds. typo in second rejection:

"characters.,"

I have no right to criticize,whatsoever.

Those would, I think, be that long string of hyphens (spilling over a line) you used for section separators (and that I told you I didn't think would fly with the Lit. bot).

 

[exssnrg]

I HAD NO IDEA THAT HITTING THE PENDING BUTTON SENDS ME TO THE BACK OF THE LINE!!! ::sigh:: I don't know what I thought to accomplish with hitting it anyway.

This thread is high-larious!

This is good to know, I kept hitting thinking it would tell me something about where I was in the cue. Guess I'll go away and write some more and not worry about it.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

that is how it's done, and even writing longhand the quotation marks are hard against.

geronimo is right, too much playing against the rules (however boring) of punctuation will get you rejected.

Ignore sr, he talks out of his fundamental orifice. The site accepts all forms of english grammar and punctuation - even Australian!!

If you are being rejected on formatting grounds, get someone to take a look.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

It's bad form to post the text of a story on the forum. It's as much published here as in the story file, and the Web owners reserve the right to vet any story posted to their Web site. Posting it here circumvents that. I suggest you delete it.

Everyone does - get a life sr and release the tension between your buttocks.

Go on, putting text here (within the guidelines) and asking for comments is a well-established way of getting some help.

sr, we're prolly more supportive of the site than you and would say if something inappropriate appeared. Just stop trying to to shut down newbies who want to learn and take your over-sized ego somewhere where you can't damage new writers.

 

[Trudy_Antone]

*****

 

[Sanichi]

Reason for rejection No 2:

Please keep strings of text or characters between spaces to less than 30 then the text of your story will bleed into the blue field and become illegible. For more information, see this FAQ: http://www.literotica.com/faq/05235347.shtml#07126769

Ain't got a clue what this means .

It should be evident from the link. The 'blue field' is the part of the page on the right side, colored light blue with "CONTACT US" and "literotica.com" printed as background. This field (as a CSS div) adjusts to the size of your screen whereas the white field (the part where your story will go, in this example containing the FAQ explanation) is a fixed size-width to accommodate the story text, using about 70-80 characters per line. That is comfortable to read on even small screens.

What is a "text string"?

A continuous piece of text before a space. A word, in other words.

What spaces?

The ones either end of your word (that contains fewer than 30 characters).

Honestly, jaxsteeples, it's a lot simpler than you seem to want it to be. You don't need to count any lines, the text will flow automatically. There are few words in English with anything like 30 characters (antidisestablishmentarianism, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) so pretty much any combination of regular words will span a line before a break.

However, if you write a long string of characters, such as: "I'm cooooooommmmiiiiiiinnnggg!!!!!!! (expand as intensity of orgasm requires) or use stylized section breaks longer than the white space page width, the overlong string will try to force its way over the white field and into the blue. Or the bot will anticipate that it might, and reject your submission.

If I understand the sequence of posts, sr71plt has privately reviewed the offending work, and suggested removal of a long text string section break? This not being done, the work was once again rejected. You can lead a horse to water...

Go on, putting text here (within the guidelines) and asking for comments is a well-established way of getting some help..

I think sr71plt was warning off the content, not the actual posting of work. As I recall, the story posted here contained a number of pre-pubertal sexual reminiscences.

 

[jaxsteeples]

Right , two points here:

A
1. You are dealing with a grunt. Me. If you want me to understand the blue screen thing you will have to simplify things.

1. There is this blue edged box.

2. You put your text into this box.

3. If you have a continuous "string" greater than characters long it chucks everything out. For example - X30 = rejection.

4. If your characters somehow end up in the blue box it will also chuck stuff out. Letters are the things you make words from. Characters refers to all the keys on a keypad you can construct language from.

B

sr71pt has spent a good deal of time and effort going through my work. It's not his fault it didn't get published, it was mine. When I tried to upload it, the process crashed my browser. When I came to resubmit, thinking I had lost the original work, there were now three versions of my story with the same title. I chose one , which turned out to be the same one I originally submitted with more than thirty ----'s and a hell of a lot of tenses, grammar and spelling mistakes.

He is good editor and teaches you what you are doing wrong through his editing skill, explaining why you should use a comma here and not there. Now, if you are like me, and played what Americans call hookey when you should have been in an English class, sr71pt offering his time like this is invaluable and greatly appreciated, especially when he had a zillion things to do instead. Like getting on with his own work and enjoying a special weekend.

In case you haven't even bothered to look it up, the SR71 is the most beautiful, black, penis - inspired object humankind has yet created. He's got zero interest whatsoever in my heterosexual fantasies and yet he spent time editing my work.

Speaking as a grunt I would say that is pretty fcking decent of him.

Pink yink

 

[michchick98]

Right , two points here:

A
1. You are dealing with a grunt. Me. If you want me to understand the blue screen thing you will have to simplify things.

I don't know if you're not getting the concept or what, but what they mean by the blue area is the background. See my screenshot below, it should "simplify things" for you.

1. There is this blue edged box.

2. You put your text into this box.

3. If you have a continuous "string" greater than characters long it chucks everything out. For example - X30 = rejection.

4. If your characters somehow end up in the blue box it will also chuck stuff out. Letters are the things you make words from. Characters refers to all the keys on a keypad you can construct language from.

I think you're talking about the submissions page. A continuous string or "text string" is something like this:

IreallycanttypeallthatwellthiswayIneedtohitthespacebarorusepunctuationinmysentencesbecausetheywillrunonandonforeverotherwise

Or repeated punctuation marks like:

Look out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which, by the way, are really unnecessary. Most readers will get the idea with one exclamation mark, or question mark, etc.

sr71pt has spent a good deal of time and effort going through my work. It's not his fault it didn't get published, it was mine. When I tried to upload it, the process crashed my browser. When I came to resubmit, thinking I had lost the original work, there were now three versions of my story with the same title. I chose one , which turned out to be the same one I originally submitted with more than thirty ----'s and a hell of a lot of tenses, grammar and spelling mistakes.

Okay, you get the idea of a "text string" then, but usually when I submit a story, I put in the special formatting for bold, italics, and such then I copy and paste my story directly into the Story Text field on the submissions page. Usually, the editor/moderator at that point needs to only approve the story and not worry about the extra formatting.

Here are a couple good pages on formatting your story for submission:

From the Literotica Writers' Resources page:

Basic Text Formatting 101 (by me)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=364905

Bold or Italics? (by Alex De Kok)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=45432

And of course, you could look through the links on the Writers' Resource page and find tons of stuff on grammar, spelling, how to write a good sex scene, etc. Lots of great stuff there.

You really should check it out:

Writers' Resources - Literotica:
http://www.literotica.com/storyxs/writ_stor.shtml

He is good editor and teaches you what you are doing wrong through his editing skill, explaining why you should use a comma here and not there. Now, if you are like me, and played what Americans call hookey when you should have been in an English class, sr71pt offering his time like this is invaluable and greatly appreciated, especially when he had a zillion things to do instead. Like getting on with his own work and enjoying a special weekend.

While I don't always agree with him on certain things, I will agree that he's a great editor.

In case you haven't even bothered to look it up, the SR71 is the most beautiful, black, penis - inspired object humankind has yet created. He's got zero interest whatsoever in my heterosexual fantasies and yet he spent time editing my work.

Speaking as a grunt I would say that is pretty fcking decent of him.

A good editor overlooks the subject matter of what he or she is editing and simply edits the story. You're right in saying he probably does have zero interest in YOUR particular fantasies, but he's got many published works in the real world and he can give valuable feedback on what'll work and what won't for you. I'd trust whatever he tells you as far as editing and writing goes. And take him seriously, too. If you don't...well, you already saw his reaction on that.

Here's the screen shot I referred to earlier:

 

[sr71plt]

Thanks jax. I do think your latest problem is merely in the choice of section separators. The submissions bot sees that long line of contiguous hyphens as one word that goes beyond its parameters. just substitute: * * *


(And thanks for the good wishes on the weekend. Just survived my second full-day wedding ritual in two days. Tomorrow--early--is an all-day horse show.)

 

[jaxsteeples]

"I think sr71plt was warning off the content, not the actual posting of work. As I recall, the story posted here contained a number of pre-pubertal sexual reminiscences."

My story absolutely did not contain any references to any such thing!

Character 1: 42 year old human male.

Character 2: Non-human female either 3000 or 4.2 billion years old, depending on your take on evolution.

 

[Sanichi]

"I think sr71plt was warning off the content, not the actual posting of work. As I recall, the story posted here contained a number of pre-pubertal sexual reminiscences."

My story absolutely did not contain any references to any such thing!

Then I recalled incorrectly. My apologies.

 

[sr71plt]

What I posted was that if a story is in rejection for the story file it should be equally considered as in rejection as text in the forum. It's just as published by the Web site when put in the forum as it would be in the story file, and until/unless the Web site owners clear it as acceptable for the story file it hasn't been accepted by the Web site owners for their Web site.