Mar
7th
2013
Status of Disappear with Equestria Daily · 8:04pm Mar 7th, 2013
So yeah, got a response from Equestria Daily 
, and...
Thank you for your submission. However, due to issues with book title punctuation, quotation mark use, and capitalization, it cannot be forwarded to the pre-readers. This does not count as a strike.
... ERAAAAAGH!!! 
Now that's TWO non-strikes, and three reasons on top of the previous two, which were "book title denotation" and "hyphen/dash confusion"! I mean, the work isn't even getting to the PRE-READERS! I'd rather have it get shot down with a strike so I can properly edit it and try again, than to keep re-editing it with vague reasonings in my recieved reply!
Ugh... I feel... *hurk* 
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want some more work done on it? I can help.
Pffft, I got the exact same message once for The One That Would Never Come
897475 Eugh... I wish I knew what the actual problem WAS! You'd think they would provide an example of each issue. When they accepted your work, you even had the pre-reader provide an example of an issue, despite the story already being accepted! But these are just... vague. 'Book Title Denotation' and 'Hyphen/dash confusion'? And 'Book Title Punctuation'!? Ugh...
... I'm seriously reaching my limit with it, but I promised myself I'd get on there, and if there's one story that'll be getting there, it will HAVE to be this: I consider my other projects that are in the works, to be too 'dark' for me to send to EqD... First I raged, and now I'm just... tired.
897468 I wish I could accept the help, really I do (you have no idea!), but I don't even truly know the meanings of what's wrong. I think I'll take one more shot with regards to my own editing, and if gets rejected again... well, then I'll have to consider the option of asking for help.
I'd be lying if I said that my pride is still strong as it was when I first posted this story, but I also have just enough to try keeping my "first ever published work" as being solely my responsibility. I thank you a lot for the offer, though.
I can sum up your reaction with this short video. Enjoy!
My advice, don't worry so much about Equestria Daily, they've got a bit of a stick stuck up there. People here enjoy your stuff, just remember that.
958061 As I analyze this comment, it's amazing how in-depth I get.
"Am I stuck in an infinite cycle of displeasure? Can I possibly be satisfied at this point, even if they accepted it? Am I only to bring about my own destruction through my desire to make it onto a site with little to no care for singular efforts of authors, but just for displaying what they, themselves, a group of select individuals likely no different than those who I see in the comments of the stories I read, choose to display based on their own tastes?"
Just moments of contemplation, right there... The problem is, I want to remain motivated to get there, because I'm well-known for not being a very motivated individual when it comes to trying to go for things that can benefit me, myself.
I need to change that, and that little "Yes, you've been accepted" is something I have, admittedly foolishly, attributed as a form of makeshift 'success' for myself.
Besides, as much as I'd like to admit the quality of my own work, I always find better stories, and my perception of my story changes drastically as a result, from "great" to now bordering on "Can't be good because it was my first story and I'm not very well-versed in vocabulary.
".
... It is a source of significant shame, to say the least.
But it relates to your own comment, even then:
I calm down and edit a bit, send a message, it gets rejected, I get mad at MYSELF, I calm down, and edit a bit, rinse and repeat.
... The fact that I have 12 other stories I'm writing (finishing before I publish any), doesn't help... nor does the fact that NONE of them will be submitted to EqD. This is, quite literally, my only story I'd submit there.
958126 I think I understand your sentiment, but as a far as what you said....I understood it about as much as I understood the movie Heavy Metal. Sorry.
958134 It's just abstract thinking: I can see the uselessness in getting to EqD, but a part of me still wants it. I can see fans being more important than "simple acceptance by a random group of critics", yet I feel compelled to pursue it. (Spike WANT!)
Basically, I feel guilty about being hypocritical, even KNOWING I am being such without others telling me, yet... I can't turn away from that goal.
Not unless I've given it everything I've got, at least.
Though I thank you for your comment: It gave me a splendid moment of clarity! (Even if the text I typed depicted anything but a splendid mood.
) Cheers, mate!
Issues with getting into EqD? Maybe I could help?
1401370 I thank you for the offer... but my writer's spirit unfortunately withered a while ago. I'm more into the editing and reviewing scene, now.
But again, you have my deepest thanks.