:sigh: my first year on Literotica...

[Bamagan]

That's good news. It's a bit confusing though - you said the original rejection feedback was
"This is better suited to our forum: http://forum.literotica.com/"

Then what? Did you resubmit it? Just wondering where the second, and contradictory, feedback came from. And why it was about a rule and not just about where on the site they wanted you to put it.

I was gonna suggest "maybe they don't think that what you wrote was an essay" since it sounds more like a journal, but I guess that wasn't the issue after all?

Probably this one:

• Works that contain advertisements, outside links, domain names, or outside promotions of any kind within the description, body text, or audio (including “See my profile for…”).

Mentioning another site or sites where one's work is or will be available could be construed as advertisement, especially if it's a paid platform.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

Probably this one:

• Works that contain advertisements, outside links, domain names, or outside promotions of any kind within the description, body text, or audio (including “See my profile for…”).

Mentioning another site or sites where one's work is or will be available could be construed as advertisement, especially if it's a paid platform.

That was the one!! Saying that I was thinking of maybe branching out and mentioning a website name (I certainly did not put a link, domain name, or anything like that, but I did use a site name within the body text). Totally my bad!!

Just wondering where the second, and contradictory, feedback came from. And why it was about a rule and not just about where on the site they wanted you to put it.

I did not resubmit it (but I will). And I don't think the second feedback was contradictory. I would imagine that Laurel and Manu do not read every submission. Mine was probably kicked back because it had the name of a site in my piece and the kickback was accompanied by (probably) a standard response. Then, perhaps, flagged stories actually do get a second look (maybe even by a real person at that point) and that garnered the clarification for me.

It was entirely my fault. I wasn't too happy that it got kicked back, but now that I see where I messed up, I will just omit that part and resubmit it.

Not a big deal either way.

I will be forever grateful (wherever my erotic writing takes me) for the support that I have gotten on this site!!

I'm going to make the changes and resubmit it right now!!!

 

[gunhilltrain]

It can be tricky because you can have outside links in forum posts (we do it all the time) but not in the stories. I try to avoid the using the domain names of competing "literary" websites anywhere (only in private messages) but I think I've done it anyway previously.

 

[alohadave]

It can be tricky because you can have outside links in forum posts (we do it all the time) but not in the stories. I try to avoid the using the domain names of competing "literary" websites anywhere (only in private messages) but I think I've done it anyway previously.

You can link to internal Literotica links in stories though.

 

[bestkeptsecret678]

54 stories in a year?! Damn. Even if they aren’t particularly long, that’s still a scarily high number! I’m closing in on a year and I don’t think I’ll hit even half that amount.

Congratulations on such a productive year! If you haven’t been too discouraged, you should totally post that retrospective here on the forums.

2 years.. 11 stories, 4 poems.

You win!
I lose.

 

[AchtungNight]

Congrats on your accomplishments. Good luck with the future. Bless your heart!

 

[ElectricBlue]

How many times can someone do that before they're thrown off Literotica?

Where does this notion come from, that you can be thrown of Literotica because you resubmit stories multiple times?

I've been here a decade, never once heard of that happening. People get banned for offensive behaviour, not trying to get stories published.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

2 years.. 11 stories, 4 poems.

You win!
I lose.

But are you having fun? If so, then you also win!!!!

 

[FreyaGersemi]

Where does this notion come from, that you can be thrown of Literotica because you resubmit stories multiple times?

Well, I just didn't want to compound any issues by maybe seeming too pushy.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

It is set to be published tomorrow! And after all that, it's really just a summary of my Literotica journey so far. Now I wish that it was something super spectacular and so worth the wait!!

Thank you all for your help and encouragement! I am still very much a newbie here!!

 

[Morevinila]

Hey, everyone!! I got a notification from Literotica that clears up what I need to change. I went afoul of one of the rules. Unintentionally, of course. I only play around with the rules that are play aroundable. I will make the changes and resubmit. I'm just in the middle of work right now...

But thank you all!!!

Glad to see you are finally going to be able to post it. You said you couldn't post it on the forum because it was too long. I was going to suggest you use the "attach files" option present on the forum to make it available on the forum. Don't know if that would work but it doesn't matter now since you have been given an opportunity to post your essay.
And congrats for your first year. Anybody looking at the number of works you've submitted would think you have been here for at least five years. Hope you continue to be as prolific.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

And congrats for your first year. Anybody looking at the number of works you've submitted would think you have been here for at least five years. Hope you continue to be as prolific.

Thank you!! Most of my stories are pretty short and easy to write. Some sex, a little dialogue, some more sex, some more dialogue, the end. I'll probably have less stories this upcoming year, but only because something like 16 of mine so far have been short essays or 750-word challenges or poetry... So that leaves less than 40 full-length "stories" for the year. But still, I was happy with the year!!

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Probably.

Okay. More hassle than it's worth. Maybe it's time to start a website and a blog and all of that fun stuff. I've never done any of that, so I think I have quite a lot of research to do!

It's not too terribly hard to run a blog. I have a few. Easiest are probably Blogger and Wordpress. Blogger lets you add pages. I've been thinking about converting one of my blogs for this pen name, and also to publish stories that may not get accepted anywhere I publish. Other than that, I don't have too much need to do one.

 

[dmallord]

I wrote a short essay (1.5K words) summing up my first year here. It basically outlined my journey from my first story published on Literotica to my one-year anniversary. I wrote about how I wrote some stories and entered some contests and challenges and some of the things that I learned. Then wrapped it up with a tally of my work here (number of stories, total views, etcetera) and what I'm eyeing for the next year. It got rejected. Maybe because I was too proud of my accomplishments in erotic writing? I did name the story the tongue-in-cheek "Pride Before the Fall." And I did submit it in the essays category.

I just wanted to sum up the first year in a writer's journey and maybe give some people an idea what they can or cannot expect.

It was rejected as:
"This is better suited to our forum: http://forum.literotica.com/"

But then the forum rules state that you can post "less than 3 paragraphs or so" but no full stories.

I did mention that I may be looking into writing books on another site that allows authors to sell their self-published work, so maybe that was the problem? I did use the name of the site, but no links or anything other than "I may look into blah-blah" to see about monetizing some of my work. Maybe that was enough to trigger the algorithm or bot or whatever?

Oh, well. It was a fun year anyway.

Hey, I read that essay. It posted! Bragging points–everyone!

 

[MetaBob]

I read one of your stories, which I enjoyed, plus three or four others by other authors, and woke this morning after having a dream featuring a woman that is nothing like you described your FMC. I've been exploring that today, in large part trying to figure out WTF?!. I wrote more than 3K words, which for me is a good day.

I have no idea what sparked my sudden burst of creativity, and as far as I'm concerned it was not one single thing, but I may well be submitting something new soon. It's been awhile.

a'Muse'd?