Well this is annoying

[amalthia]

I submitted the first part of my Harry Potter fan fic to Restricted Section.org and it got rejected for

"Your story has significant spelling errors.
Your story contains elements that do not match canon.

Your story contains incorrectly placed punctuation. "

Okay I can live with this but I've reread this story and while yes I know I'm probably too close to the material to read it objectively, I don't think I mispelled THAT many words. I've edited this part multiple times and had other friends read it and they let me know where I went wrong with puncation or mispelling, and I fixed everything they found wrong. And I have no clue where I went in a different direction from the cannon universe. sigh :(

Has anyone else had this much trouble submitting to Restricted Section?

I think they could have at least pointed out the parts that were flawed so I could find and fix them.

Maybe someday in the far future I'll get around to editing my story again, for now I'm going to concentrate on the new parts.

I guess I should have just wrote AU at the top, though as to why a fan fic has to stick completely to canon universe is beyond me.

Comments

[amalthia]

Well i think they are just want locations to be the same or somethign like that. As in if you want to unlock doors with a spell you have to use the spell Hermione uses in the first book, and if you make up another spell name to unlock the door it'll disqualify the story.

It's really tough to keep everything in cannon for Harry Potter because there are just so many facts to remember. Like where Gryffindor tower is located and etc.... it's just too much.

I had a few friends read this first part and I'll admit they found some grammar errors and I fixed them but I really don't think my puncuation is that awful, and it bugs me that they won't archive a story because of a few mistakes in it. I had two words mispelled that I found so far, breath and breathe...

Man I wish I had the moderators from this archive beta reading for me.