EQD Response. · 1:04am Sep 30th, 2013
I cannot recommend this for posting.
Look for issues in the following areas:
Dialogue punctuation
Comma splices
Comma use (general)
Tense misuse
Possessive nouns
Semicolon use
Inconsistent indentation
CapitalizationThis is the story's third strike out of a possible three, and as such, will not be considered further for posting on Equestria Daily. Best of luck with your writing, and feel free to send us any other stories.
Signed,
Pre-reader Air Pirate
Not surprised honestly, this is actually exactly what I expected to see, punctuation and grammar stuff.
Yeah sure I probably could have asked some people to proof the hell out of it and make it all polished. I guess that just goes to show how much I really wanted to get onto EQD.
Anyways, I am grateful to this prereader who looked it over. It has given me exactly what I wanted, some feed back into stuff I need to look into. Thank you for actually doing a good job EQD, I give your new system a thumbs up.
What makes me particularly happy though, is this is all punctuation and grammar issues. No story elements were particularly blaring or awful. (That or they just saw too many errors and gave up reading after a while) So for that I am really, really happy.
Sure my story might not be the cleanest in grammar and punctuation, but at least the story in itself is acceptable by EQD's standards. (Double standards, or is it Triple? I lost count.) So I walk away with my three strikes, with a smile on my face and feeling very satisfied. I know that I have improved myself as a writer, and consider this a personal victory in my long road still to go.
Oh, so they have a new system, so instead of ripping it to shreds and making fun of it in the process calling it worthless pile of shit, they actually help now? Still hate EQD...even if I want to try to get a story on their once.
Yup, we'll handle it.
And this is why I have no interest in submitting to EqD.
Anything that I send their way will be obliterated almost instantly.
Impossible anyone except the elite to get up over in there.
Unless you somehow managed to garner over several likes and whatnot, one should not even think of getting into the hall of fame for the site.
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Likes have nothing to do with it, I know of a few stories with over 1500+ likes that have been rejected. Being elite also has nothing to do with it either. I've seen several stories on EQD with many obvious grammar errors, yet somehow it still manged to pass.
Getting into EQD is quite literally Prereader roulette. Seeing as it only takes the approval of 'one' person for a story to be deemed worthy of being posted on EQD, bias plays a heavy factor. They say they try not to be bias, and sure, I imagine some do; but I find it difficult to believe that more aren't.
It's like the police. Most people would think that people become cops for mostly good intentions. However ask someone who used to be in the police force and they will tell you a lot of police officers are the kind of people who like to be in control, be in a position that demands respect or something along that nature.
I imagine this to be the case with most things in life that are a position of some kind of power over people in some way; EQD is no different. Some people join with solely good intentions and honestly want to help out; while others may say this, but there are other reasons they like being in that position as well.
Until the EQD 'filter' uses more than one person, it will always suffer from personal bias. How greatly is a case by case, case.
Grammar is my strong suit. It's the dialogue that trips me up. Whenever I write, everything always seems to go great until characters actually have to speak to each other. Then I feel like a blind lesbian in a fish market.
I'm writing two stories right now. One is almost entirely made up of dialogue, the other contains almost no dialogue whatsoever and the difference between them is night and day.
I blame Edgar Allen Poe. The Telltale Heart which contains exactly one spoken sentence, is one of the most influential works of fiction I've ever read. To say nothing of his other works.