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

[juxiantang.livejournal.com]

Oh my!!! I can't believe it! I think there is something seriously wrong in the heads of the girls from Restricted Section. Like *seriously* wrong. Do they reject stories?!!! They archive lots of fics that will make any sane person throw up. And not to mention containing tons of errors. And what about those "elements that don't match canon"? Isn't all slash about something that doesn't match canon?

I think the archivist girl had a bad case of PMS when taking a look at your story. Or something. Because these comments are really strange.

I mean my "Damage Control" is there, and I'm sure there are more errors there than you can ever make :-) Not to mention "elements that don't match canon".

Please don't be upset. I really don't like those selective archives. The quality of things there is not higher than anywhere but their self-conceit... oh my.

[amalthia]

I'll survive. Basically I felt a small blow to my pride. I couldn't figure it out either, how that archive can archive a ton of boring not so great stories and decide mine wasn't good enough. sigh

Honestly there are maybe 20 really good stories and the rest...I tried to read and found washing dishes to be more entertaining than reading some of those fics.

As for Damage Control I didn't see any obvious errors...the girl did write back to me and let me know I got my breath and breathe mixed up..but I only used those words 2 times in the story...it seems like such a small thing. And puncuation...I purposely don't use correct punucation sometimes. grrrr

oh well I don't know if it's their loss or not, but I'm not going to waste time worrying about it again. There are other archives that aren't so picky. :)