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[Deviant4U2]

How do I find out why Lit reviewed and rejected my story?

 

[Britva415]

The rejection notice normally gives the reason for the rejection. What does it say?

 

[Deviant4U2]

no reason listed
Moderator has rejected your story
My Daughter In Law
10/28/2026

 

[Deviant4U2]

Just a rejection - do I try resubmitting?

 

[BeechLeaf]

Really? No reason at all? What is your story about? Are you pushing boundaries? Some of the most common rejection reasons are: underage characters; reads like you used AI; and non-standard dialogue punctuation. Without you actually quoting the rejection message, or telling us what sort of story it is, it's hard to guess why it was rejected. But a resubmit will probably be rejected in the same way - unless you understand why it was rejected, and tell the management (clearly, politely) in an admin note why they're wrong and it should be accepted.

 

[ElectricBlue]

no reason listed
Moderator has rejected your story
My Daughter In Law
10/28/2026

Read your rejection notice more closely. I'm sure there'll be a reason - the site uses a dozen or so generic rejection notices, usually in the form of questions, giving you the opportunity to fix it.

If you really did receive nothing, resubmit it, stating exactly what you've said here - there might be a glitch.

 

[anthrodisiac]

no reason listed
Moderator has rejected your story
My Daughter In Law
10/28/2026

That looks like the notification you probably got from the bell icon on the home page. To see the full message, go into your control panel, go to Works, and click on the story. That should have more details about the specific nature of why your story was rejected.

 

[SmilingLez]

How do I find out why Lit reviewed and rejected my story?

You might never find out why your story was rejected. Months ago this was my rejection letter on 6 stories that were in pending purgatory for almost a month. They all were rejected at the same time with the same message. It's a very stupid message since you can't post stories in the forum. I no longer post stories here (a commercial for profit porn site) it is not worth my time. YMMV

Dear Writer,

Thank you for your submission to Literotica. We appreciate the time and effort you've taken to write a story and submit it to our site . However, we've found that we cannot post your submission in its current form. The checklist below may help you in re-examining your manuscript.

This is better suited to our forum: http://forum.literotica.com/
Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions. You can find a list of Volunteer Editors here.

Please consult our Writer's Resources section and make sure you read our submission guidelines.
If you have any questions on these, please let us know.

Thanks for your time, and look forward to reading you again!

Laurel & Manu
Literotica.Com

 

[Britva415]

Just a rejection - do I try resubmitting?

Not without finding the complete message which that notification you showed us was alerting you to, and reading the reason for the rejection.

 

[Deviant4U2]

Really? No reason at all? What is your story about? Are you pushing boundaries? Some of the most common rejection reasons are: underage characters; reads like you used AI; and non-standard dialogue punctuation. Without you actually quoting the rejection message, or telling us what sort of story it is, it's hard to guess why it was rejected. But a resubmit will probably be rejected in the same way - unless you understand why it was rejected, and tell the management (clearly, politely) in an admin note why they're wrong and it should be accepted.

That's great feedback - TY. Its been a bit - I need to re-read the story. I really dont think it was age, but As mentioned I will read again. If I come back blank, I will reach out. The rejection has no reason listed. The jist was a Father-In-Law chloroforming his daughter in law and recording it, editing the footage to look as she was a willing woman. To use as leverage

 

[CalBishForNow]

That's great feedback - TY. Its been a bit - I need to re-read the story. I really dont think it was age, but As mentioned I will read again. If I come back blank, I will reach out. The rejection has no reason listed. The jist was a Father-In-Law chloroforming his daughter in law and recording it, editing the footage to look as she was a willing woman. To use as leverage

That might have been rejected for violating the rules around reluctance/nonconsent.

 

[Britva415]

The rejection has no reason listed

Did you find the complete message? Or are you still just looking at what's written in the notification?

 

[Deviant4U2]

Did you find the complete message? Or are you still just looking at what's written in the notification?

could not find it. i must have deleted it

 

[Britva415]

could not find it. i must have deleted it

Well, you might as well take @CalBishForNow 's advice, then, and try re-publishing it. You'll either fix the problem and get published, or, you'll get rejected again and know to look for the message which has the reason spelled out in it.

Are you sure that when you look at your rejected story in your Sent Back page, there is no long-form rejection message?

That ⬆ is actually the direct answer to your original question:

How do I find out why Lit reviewed and rejected my story?