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that doesn’t mean they are perfect
Mine neither. I can look at a story fifty times and miss a basic word or typo 'cos my brain just glosses over it.
We're not after perfection. But you probably wouldn't believe the horrors we've had submitted that are barely coherent.
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Once it's submitted, it goes to In Queue or even Submitted until it's actually picked up for review.
It differentiates anyway. It goes Under Review and you can recall it. When it's assigned to a moderator you can no longer recall it. If they unlock it, you can. So it flips between states already. As AC says, the wording is immaterial.
The fact it's sometimes assigned to a moderator and gets passed around or held back while we discuss aspects of the story among ourselves doesn't change the fact it's under review. And while we're deliberating, we wouldn't want you to make changes (unless you expressly ask for it to be unlocked and returned) as that would invalidate our discussions. Moving goal posts, and all that.
On a general note, one way to avoid feeling the need to recall it after submission is to make sure everything is shipshape prior to sending it in. Who would send in a half-finished piece of homework or a partial manuscript for printing with the intention "oh I'll fix the typos or structure or add the artwork after someone has read it all*?
Surely presenting the best possible version from the outset is the most efficient route?
Real life got in the way a bit, and we had two attempts at penning the finale to Love At First Bite, but Kimmi and I are done with the series and happy with it.
Part 3 is in the queue and will be out whenever a mod can spare some time. Don't believe the word counter: it's less than 5k words.
In the meantime, if you haven't caught up with the vampire action so far, now's a perfect time to make amends. Sexy fangs await...
Not big, not clever, just determined to get better at everything I try. Author of over 100 stories here on Lush. Owner of the Challenge Erotica photog...
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I believe WW was just making a general reminder to all of us who use this site. Not to you personally. That is the way I read it.
This.
People who open multiple accounts and/or push AI-generated or AI-assisted dreck to the queue, and then have the cheek to complain about wait times, are doing the site and all the authors who care about the craft of storytelling a disservice.
We have made our stance on AI public. Just because we're currently publishing such work - deliberately slowly - to give real authors and those who play by the rules a chance at getting published, doesn't mean that will always be the case.
Plans are afoot to tackle this scourge, this blight on the quality of stories published here, but our resources are limited and it may take time.
If your stories are not AI-generated/assisted and your story has been inadvertently caught up in our sweeps that allow us to move past the crap and get to the real stories buried below, please accept our apologies. We currently have a very limited toolset at our disposal and manually sifting the deluge and cross-checking accounts and content is time consuming and error prone.
Please, please, again, do not present AI content and pretend you wrote it. It's not big, nor is it clever, to steal work from other authors and take credit for the mediocre, repetitive nonsense it spits out. I'm surprised the brave moderating team haven't all had a collective nervous breakdown having to wade through the same tired hipster phrasing, the same clichéd tropes, story after story after story, a hundred times a week each.
It's demoralising and unjust when we're giving our time - for free - to use our collective years of expertise to help authors find their storytelling voice, only to be presented with 30-40 stories per day, all with a near-identical voice and cadence generated by a soulless algorithm.
We urge you to have a go at writing something yourself. Something fresh. Something exciting that you're proud of and allows you to build a steady readership. If you genuinely try, we are more than happy to help you build on those foundations by providing tips, resources, and guidance to help you develop.
We're here to help and are being hamstrung from doing so by inconsiderate site members.
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I suspect it has to do with the recent denial of posting privileges involving banned groupies.
That's the only conclusion I can draw too.
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It is replying to an existing reply
So it is. That narrows it down, thank you for the clarification.
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Any idea when this might get resolved. It’s a PIA having to log back in when simply clicking on “reply” to a reply.
No ETA, sadly. I flagged it to the dev team again this morning.
Weirdly, some people seem able to post replies just fine. You seem to be one of the unlucky ones. Me, well, I'm halfway between the two. When I tap in the Reply box, the login window tries to pop up but never completes. It just spins forever. If I then go Back a page, I'm still logged in, but ultimately have no way to leave a comment reply.
Bizarre.
Weird. It was definitely working earlier cos there have been group wall post replies. Maybe another regression somehow. I'll nudge the dev team in the morning.
The forum seems to be working, since you can post replies 😁
Thanks for the report. Someone will look at it.
Forum? Group posts? IM? ...?
Edit: Ah, just tried it on a Group Post and got the same thing. Seems it's confined to that area of the site.
It's rare that a Flash story creeps into your psyche and makes you think - really think - about the situation the protagonist finds himself. And yet that's exactly what chris21235 manages in Do You Know? in around 700 words.
It embodies everything a Flash piece should: thrusts you into the characters, makes you wonder how they got there, and what will happen next. And it still leaves you thinking after reading it. Masterful storytelling.
Please do check it out and give the story some love.
Congratulations, Chris on your EP award for this story.
Do you want to know?
Flash Erotica
Currently penning the final chapter in my and Kimmi's vampire trilogy, Love At First Bite.
It's not your run of the mill Gothic horror fest, so even if it's not your thing, you might enjoy the series so far.
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I make too many mistakes (leaving out a word or putting the same word twice in a row) that my eyes tend to skim over no matter how carefully I think I'm reading
That's common. I get word blindness too, and it often stems from familiarity with the text. Being accustomed to the position of words and layout. You can trick your brain into spotting them by doing one or more of the following:
Temporarily bump the font size or browser zoom level, which moves words to different lines. This can also helps catch disguised line/paragraph break glitches.
Copy and paste the content into a different app to edit.
Read it on a different device, mobile, laptop ...
Start from the end and read each paragraph normally, just in reverse order (or each word, from last to first, if you're hardcore!)
Change the font colour.
Read it aloud.
Have the computer read it out to you.
There are a tonne of little variants like that you can do to jar your brain into spotting mistakes.
