Story sent back for formatting

[DuncanMc]

So I submitted my 15th story. The first 14 all passed review but the latest was picked up for poor grammar/formatting of dialogue. I accept it was cumbersome so I reviewed the suggested educational pieces, made appropriate changes and resubmitted. Now the story shows ‘Published’ but it is still in my pending column.

When I click on my story it still shows in the Pending column. I’m not sure whether my changes have been accepted or not. Any ideas?

Duncan

 

[jaF0]

Does it have a date beside it?

 

[RejectReality]

If it shows "published" in the pending folder with a date, it will appear with the first batch of stories released on that date ( Usually somewhere around midnight U.S. Mountain or Pacific Time. )

 

[DuncanMc]

Ahh. It does. Date is 02/23/2025 so it should be published tomorrow?

 

[Periquito1]

Same happened to me. Like 19 stories published with the same dialogue format, this got rejected for it and I don't get how to make it "right". Came here to ask and found this post.
I haven't sent it back because if I don't change anything I guess it's still "wrong", but I'm in limbo here...

 

[DuncanMc]

I must admit i was surprised mine got sent back after 14 stories passing first time. I didn’t change my writing style and the submission was the sixth and final installment in a story that had garnered a very favorable (Imho) response.

 

[RejectReality]

Same happened to me. Like 19 stories published with the same dialogue format, this got rejected for it and I don't get how to make it "right". Came here to ask and found this post.
I haven't sent it back because if I don't change anything I guess it's still "wrong", but I'm in limbo here...

Go through and double check everywhere you have dialogue in the story. Do a Find for quotation marks, and scrutinize each and every one of them for proper formatting.

For whatever reason, Laurel has always caught improper dialogue formatting and rejected for it far in excess of any other grammar rejection. Maybe she has a pet peeve. Who knows. LOL

Maybe you've got one or two with missing full stops, commas, or same outside the quotation marks somewhere. It can be easy to miss them in the middle of a document, but somehow Laurel finds them.

 

[PapaRomantic]

Ahh. It does. Date is 02/23/2025 so it should be published tomorrow?

Yes, it will be published tomorrow.

 

[ronde]

Same happened to me. Like 19 stories published with the same dialogue format, this got rejected for it and I don't get how to make it "right". Came here to ask and found this post.
I haven't sent it back because if I don't change anything I guess it's still "wrong", but I'm in limbo here...

I've had the same experience and I still do not understand what happened.

Since the first story I submitted, I've copied and pasted from MS Word with no issues. Then, one story got sent back for "formatting". I tried reviewing my original and it looked fine, but when I copied and pasted it as revised text and then looked at the preview, I could see it. When I looked at it again, what I found is that for some reason, Word was inserting extra spaces between words that made it look like a sentence just ended in the middle. Some dialogue was affected, but not all.

I ran a second spell check and kept getting the error that a short section of a sentence was a sentence fragment. When I looked closer, apparently Word had generated a carriage return at the end of a line of text for about half the lines I'd written. The only way to correct it was to go to the end of each line, delete each space and then insert the correct space. That fixed the problem. After that, I found another story with a similar issue when I saw it in the preview. When I ran another spell check, I got the error of multiple spaces between words. It happened on only these two stories and hasn't happened since.

The key is to not breeze through the preview before clicking on "submit". It appears that what you see in the preview is pretty much what would appear if the story was published as is.

 

[bridgetrose]

Ahh. It does. Date is 02/23/2025 so it should be published tomorrow?

I've had that experience multiple times. Just on normal submissions. I think when they first approve it, it will show up as "Published" for you right away, but there may be a delay of up to 24 hours (usually less) before it shows up publicly.

I must admit i was surprised mine got sent back after 14 stories passing first time. I didn’t change my writing style and the submission was the sixth and final installment in a story that had garnered a very favorable (Imho) response.

I just had this same exact experience. After posting 37 previous stories, I just had my first rejection this week for "dialogue grammar". I know I'm very good at it, so I felt very frustrated. I DID go through and edit my story one more time, and found 3 very minor typos with regards to dialogue. So I fixed those and re-submitted. Hopefully that does the trick!

 

[bridgetrose]

I've had the same experience and I still do not understand what happened.

Since the first story I submitted, I've copied and pasted from MS Word with no issues. Then, one story got sent back for "formatting". I tried reviewing my original and it looked fine, but when I copied and pasted it as revised text and then looked at the preview, I could see it. When I looked at it again, what I found is that for some reason, Word was inserting extra spaces between words that made it look like a sentence just ended in the middle. Some dialogue was affected, but not all.

I ran a second spell check and kept getting the error that a short section of a sentence was a sentence fragment. When I looked closer, apparently Word had generated a carriage return at the end of a line of text for about half the lines I'd written. The only way to correct it was to go to the end of each line, delete each space and then insert the correct space. That fixed the problem. After that, I found another story with a similar issue when I saw it in the preview. When I ran another spell check, I got the error of multiple spaces between words. It happened on only these two stories and hasn't happened since.

The key is to not breeze through the preview before clicking on "submit". It appears that what you see in the preview is pretty much what would appear if the story was published as is.

If it helps... while I do use Word to write my stories, when I'm ready to publish, I ALWAYS copy/paste them into NOTEPAD. Then, I copy/paste AGAIN from NOTEPAD into the web browser on Literotica. That way you are guaranteed to strip out any goofy formatting that Word might add to your text. (NOTEPAD won't fix extra line breaks if they exist in the Word document. But I've been doing it this way for years and never had a problem.)

 

[ElectricBlue]

The key is to not breeze through the preview before clicking on "submit". It appears that what you see in the preview is pretty much what would appear if the story was published as is.

Correct. The Preview is pretty much what you get when it's published. You can also edit in Preview mode, which is handy.

 

[FidelityBoss]

So I submitted my 15th story. The first 14 all passed review but the latest was picked up for poor grammar/formatting of dialogue. I accept it was cumbersome so I reviewed the suggested educational pieces, made appropriate changes and resubmitted. Now the story shows ‘Published’ but it is still in my pending column.

When I click on my story it still shows in the Pending column. I’m not sure whether my changes have been accepted or not. Any ideas?

Duncan

Sounds like a glitch in the system! If it shows “Published” but still in Pending, it might just need time to update. Give it a day or two, and if it’s still stuck, maybe reach out to Literotica support.