A certain well-known story site recently rejected one of my stories for "poor grammar", namely for ending speech quotes with the comma outside the quotation marks rather than inside. For about 3 instances. They also cited paragraphs that were too long (makes it difficult for some readers to follow, apparently; diddums!) and No Tags!! I mean, What the Actual Fuck?!?! I've never tagged any of my stories, there or anywhere else, and they'e rejecting it for that?
Incidentally, it's an older story of mine (
this one in fact) which I've had published on another site with no issue.
Question is, are they correct to reject it for such reasons? They made great play of correct grammar, good spelling etc, but having tried to read many stories on there which were simply unintelligible, I have to wonder at their pedantry on this occasion.
Anyway, I've made (some of) the corrections they wanted, so we'll see what happens.
DM
N.B. This isn't a ploy to get anyone to read my story btw, though obviously oyu can if you'd like!
DM