I submitted Family Appreciation Day to EQD.  It was rejected due to length and other issues, but it doesn't quite matter.  I kind of started hoping it wouldn't be accepted, a few days after I sent it in.  I'd like to make my debut on EQD with a different story -- one I'm currently working on right now, titled Crush.

However, I have learned from my mistakes.

For one thing, one of the problems pointed out with the story was what was referred to as Lavender Unicorn Syndrome.  Which is where a character is referred to by some descriptive thing rather than with a pronoun.

I hate that trope, but I used it in Family Appreciation Day because I thought it would make it more appealing.

Oh well.

I am writing my current story in a vastly different manner, anyways.  Family Appreciation Day was written to be "user friendly."  My current project will be written the way I like to write.  Which as a result may be a bit more controversial.

Now I just feel embarrassed for having succumbed to the so-called Lavender Unicorn Syndrome.