Long time reader - first time poster, nothing after chapter 2 is publishing

[Cafanathaw]

I started this thread a while back to try to collect advice on this. I think it's got some good advice and some decent discussion. Others will disagree and did so in the thread, bu it's a start and might have a nugget you can use. Good luck

Thanks Shelby, I went through many of these tips last month. Plain truth was that my work didnt contain the vast majority of these red flags. And without changing the work just resubmitting it again and again, the same work that was rejected was passed. That happened twice. The next four, sat for varying times from 17 days to 4 days. and all got rejected at the same time. Again none of these content the red flags mentioned. I could just keep throwing them at the engine in a hit and hope manner, or call it a day.

I do have to wonder though, from reading previous notes by the admins there was a shift from AI is slightly tolerated to it not being tolerated at all, about 8 months ago. I assume thats when the filter was tweaked or turned on. I have also heard many authors that those with a decent back catalogue seem to get published a lot quicker. Which is right, they have a track record of quality work (an assumption I know). But the big question is, does the quicker turn around mean it's not passed through the AI checker ? And whether the weight of their historical work was ever put under the same scrutiny (i.e. a full AI audit) as some of these new authors ?

All I know is any system that can fail four times and then go 'win win win' is flawed, and I am wasting my time trying to make sense of it. ;-)

Thanks as always for the advice.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Every story runs through the same checkers; the site owner might pass some through without a read-through when it is trusted writers, or might not. We aren't privy to those details. I've been rejected twice for the dreaded AI thing, but only after I appeared on a list by a reader of stories she (the Lit reader) suspected of AI use, the reader, not the site. One I never touched, but will go through at some point. One had two or three grammatically correct sentences that were confusing (because of the order of the clauses) and awkwardly written. I fixed those, and it went through zipy-do-da fast. I've had two where 21 one, due to my fucking dyslexia, read 12 for the main character in one place, but 21 in the others.

That's the sum total of rejections I've experienced.

Oh, wait, I had an older-younger sex story on Amazon, titled "Mommy's Little Helper," that achieved a ban when a reader reported it as indicating incest, but disappointed him when it wasn't. They banned it as implying incest, so I changed the title and republished it. It was just a 40-year-old woman and 18 year old next door neighbor. And one was banned due to explict a rape scene, I modified and the word Reduxe to the title, and it's been up for sale ever since. It's here and made through review just fine.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Thanks Shelby, I went through many of these tips last month. Plain truth was that my work didnt contain the vast majority of these red flags. And without changing the work just resubmitting it again and again, the same work that was rejected was passed. That happened twice. The next four, sat for varying times from 17 days to 4 days. and all got rejected at the same time. Again none of these content the red flags mentioned. I could just keep throwing them at the engine in a hit and hope manner, or call it a day.

I do have to wonder though, from reading previous notes by the admins there was a shift from AI is slightly tolerated to it not being tolerated at all, about 8 months ago. I assume thats when the filter was tweaked or turned on. I have also heard many authors that those with a decent back catalogue seem to get published a lot quicker. Which is right, they have a track record of quality work (an assumption I know). But the big question is, does the quicker turn around mean it's not passed through the AI checker ? And whether the weight of their historical work was ever put under the same scrutiny (i.e. a full AI audit) as some of these new authors ?

All I know is any system that can fail four times and then go 'win win win' is flawed, and I am wasting my time trying to make sense of it. ;-)

Thanks as always for the advice.

I'm getting ready to find out, I think. My next story has a big block of legalese written under the tutelage of a lawyer friend of mine that, when scanned on it's own, comes back 100% AI.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Legalease ain't human speak.

I'm getting ready to find out, I think. My next story has a big block of legalese written under the tutelage of a lawyer friend of mine that, when scanned on it's own, comes back 100% AI.

 

[Cafanathaw]

I'm getting ready to find out, I think. My next story has a big block of legalese written under the tutelage of a lawyer friend of mine that, when scanned on it's own, comes back 100% AI.

Yeah I have a similar worry, in a future chapter when the lead is talking to one of his doctors about a series of procedures, and everyone I have spoken too tells me if it sounds like a block of techie stuff it will hit the alarm button. So do I go authentic and believable, do I completely dumb it down to "he went for an operation" ! We should not have to make that kind of choice, so much for the tech age improving life.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yeah I have a similar worry, in a future chapter when the lead is talking to one of his doctors about a series of procedures, and everyone I have spoken too tells me if it sounds like a block of techie stuff it will hit the alarm button.

I highly disagree. This is speculation. I include technical stuff in my stories from time to time, e.g.

—

"So, Immanuel, it seems that the electro-mechanical and AGI components are working well. What about the biological ones?"

'AGI?' I thought. 'Was that what I was?' I looked up the term. That was something I apparently could do.

AGI: Artificial General Intelligence. A theoretical concept that aims to create machines that can perform any intellectual task a human can

'Theoretical no more,' I told myself. 'But machine?'

Father, the man Leon had called Immanuel, replied. "They are progressing well. Growth has been tracking expectations. Dr. Tochen's addition of inositol and pyridoxine appears to have reduced the number of failures we previously experienced to a manageable level. We expect to be able to transplant them in a few days."

—

Never got pinged for AI.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Consider this!

As the doctor hit him with medical mumbo jumbo, his mind went numb, and he sought refuge in a memory of a fishing trip with his father. Meandering further away from the dreadful talk of cutting and snipping, he made love to his wife for the first time in the backseat of his 63 Chevy. Hoping she was paying attention to the doctor, not to his hitting all of the right spots way back then.

That way, only some of the boring details need to be revealed.

Yeah I have a similar worry, in a future chapter when the lead is talking to one of his doctors about a series of procedures, and everyone I have spoken too tells me if it sounds like a block of techie stuff it will hit the alarm button. So do I go authentic and believable, do I completely dumb it down to "he went for an operation" ! We should not have to make that kind of choice, so much for the tech age improving life.