Long waiting time

[Justplainjeff]

Dear fellow authors,

My stories have been pending for over a week, so I resubmitted them for publication. Cureently, they remain pending after two more days.

Could you please tell me the current processing time for pending submissions?

Regards,

Yours sincerely, Dracula

I have found that stories are posted by the "importance" of the authors. Laurel, herself implied just that fact to me a year ago, or so. There could be a lot of submissions, too.

 

[PennyThompson]

So, I hope this doesn't cause drama, but my last three stories were each processed and published within two days of submission

BUT I keep all of my stories under 6,000 words, and I submit them as direct story text, not as a file upload. I think maybe both of those things help speed up the approval process?

 

[AmateurDracula]

So, I hope this doesn't cause drama, but my last three stories were each processed and published within two days of submission

BUT I keep all of my stories under 6,000 words, and I submit them as direct story text, not as a file upload. I think maybe both of those things help speed up the approval process?

I envy you

I also did text submission. May be my stories are bad and not worth publishing.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I envy you

I also did text submission. May be my stories are bad and not worth publishing.

Or, they're in the queue, which is what everyone here is saying. Be patient, don't touch your submissions, don't keep contacting Laurel, and something will eventually break loose.

Right now, it's very probable that your stories have not been looked at, so "bad and not worth publishing" is jumping to conclusions.

 

[AmateurDracula]

Or, they're in the queue, which is what everyone here is saying. Be patient, don't touch your submissions, don't keep contacting Laurel, and something will eventually break loose.

Right now, it's very probable that your stories have not been looked at, so "bad and not worth publishing" is jumping to conclusions.

Yeah sent her 3 messages. Its a full stop from my end. Will update once any further action is taken.

 

[Katie_Mae]

May be my stories are bad and not worth publishing.

If so they would have been rejected, not left pending. A pending status doesn't mean anything other than that Laurel hasn't gotten to it yet.

If it makes you feel better, there's no processing queue in that there's not one single queue of all the submitted stories which is worked through in order. No one can say ""Laurel's working on stories submitted on this day right now" because that's not how it happens. No one really knows exactly how Laurel arranges this, but what we do know is it's not strictly "first in first out" across all the stories been submitted. Which means the order the stories are approved in is not necessarily the order they were submitted in.

This means that people who have submitted after you may have their stories published before you. But it also means that your stories might be published before others who submitted theirs before you.

I've had a story take under 12 minutes, I've had one take a month.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Update: no action, stories still under pending status.

Messaged Laurel 2wice.

I very much doubt that nagging is going to help.

-Rocco

 

[AmateurDracula]

I very much doubt that nagging is going to help.

-Rocco

Not nagging. Sorry, if this came across that way.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Not nagging. Sorry, if this came across that way.

I meant, nagging Laurel. She's reviewing hundreds and hundreds of stories, edits, and comments every day, plus whatever else is involved in managing this site. She's legit insanely busy.

-Rocco

 

[AmateurDracula]

I meant, nagging Laurel. She's reviewing hundreds and hundreds of stories, edits, and comments every day, plus whatever else is involved in managing this site. She's legit insanely busy.

-Rocco

Thanks, will not message her any further.

 

[AmateurDracula]

I have submitted Chapter 1 of a new story, although the first chapters of two other stories are still awaiting review. I hope to receive feedback on my work soon.

I currently have three stories pending review; one is brand new, and the other two have been awaiting review for almost ten days.

 

[sinfantasy]

@AmateurDracula I submitted my first story way back in Jan. It was rejected after two weeks of wait. My next two submissions were also rejected for various reasons after a long wait.

Eventually, I ended up scrapping a lot of my initial writing. It was a tough learning curve before my work reached an acceptable level. Even then if you look at the comments on my first story you will notice I had fucked up big time with the story.

The only point I want to make is to have patience till you hear back on your submission. In the meantime, I would strongly advise you to review your submissions again and make changes if any before it gets approved.

If you think submission has a wait time, the EDIT request takes even longer. I had to wait for 12 days before my EDIT request was approved. My story continued getting trolled for the mistakes at that time. I guess the only good thing that came out of it was the story had more than 25k views, 1k+ votes, and 50+ comments. With an average rating of 3.3 I learned about L/W category the hard way.

Looking back, I am glad for the wait and rejection of earlier submissions and mistakes in the first story. They helped me learn things much faster.

 

[AmateurDracula]

@AmateurDracula I submitted my first story way back in Jan. It was rejected after two weeks of wait. My next two submissions were also rejected for various reasons after a long wait.

Eventually, I ended up scrapping a lot of my initial writing. It was a tough learning curve before my work reached an acceptable level. Even then if you look at the comments on my first story you will notice I had fucked up big time with the story.

The only point I want to make is to have patience till you hear back on your submission. In the meantime, I would strongly advise you to review your submissions again and make changes if any before it gets approved.

If you think submission has a wait time, the EDIT request takes even longer. I had to wait for 12 days before my EDIT request was approved. My story continued getting trolled for the mistakes at that time. I guess the only good thing that came out of it was the story had more than 25k views, 1k+ votes, and 50+ comments. With an average rating of 3.3 I learned about L/W category the hard way.

Looking back, I am glad for the wait and rejection of earlier submissions and mistakes in the first story. They helped me learn things much faster.

Thanks so much for your advice.

 

[AmateurDracula]

Thanks so much for your advice.

 

[AmateurDracula]

12 days and counting... add 2 weeks of wait in my other account.

In short waiting from 4 weeks in total to get my story published.

 

[AmateurDracula]

I recently submitted a story, and it shows as "published," but I cannot find it in Loving Wives; the counter shows zero. My other two stories are still pending, despite being submitted two weeks ago.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I recently submitted a story, and it shows as "published," but I cannot find it in Loving Wives; the counter shows zero. My other two stories are still pending, despite being submitted two weeks ago.

Give it 24 hours. The site releases stories at the same time, midnight somewhere in the US, and different sections of the site refresh on different cycles.

Given that your story is LW, part of the delay was probably down to the volume of stories in that category. Laurel tries to spread the release load so that all categories get their fair share every day.

 

[AmateurDracula]

Give it 24 hours. The site releases stories at the same time, midnight somewhere in the U.S., and different sections of the site refresh on different cycles.

Given that your story is LW, part of the delay was probably due to the volume of stories in that category. Laurel tries to spread the release load so that all categories get their fair share every day.

Thanks, and what should I do with the other two pending since two weeks? This one got reviewed and published in two days.

 

[AmateurDracula]

Thanks, and what should I do with the other two pending since two weeks? This one got reviewed and published in two days.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thanks, and what should I do with the other two pending since two weeks? This one got reviewed and published in two days.

Wait. It's the only thing you can do, other than a polite PM to Laurel.

 

[Britva415]

review your submissions again and make changes if any before it gets approved

Just so people understand:

What doing the above does is, takes the story out of any queue it might be in, and puts it to the bck of the line as if it were a completely new submission, causing the wait clock to re-start from zero.

People are free to do it, I just wouldn't advise this without also informing them of this particular consequence.

 

[AmateurDracula]

My first story has been published. Thank you to everyone for your support. This story, submitted two days ago, has been accepted for publication, while two others remain under review for over two weeks; I anticipate their publication shortly.

Please take some time to read it.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

My first story has been published. Thank you to everyone for your support. This story, submitted two days ago, has been accepted for publication, while two others remain under review for over two weeks; I anticipate their publication shortly.

Please take some time to read it.

Many of us like to link to our stories when we post announcements like this. It makes is easier for people to find our stories in the giant flood of words that is Literotica.

-Rocco

 

[AmateurDracula]

Many of us like to link to our stories when we post announcements like this. It makes is easier for people to find our stories in the giant flood of words that is Literotica.

-Rocco

Thanks here is the link.

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-commissioner-ch-01

 

[StillStunned]

Please take some time to read it.

I've read it, and if you're interested, I'd be willing to provide some constructive feedback.