Patreon and Literotica - Publishing Delays.

[FrancesScott]

My experience has also been similar to yours.

My latest entry went from pending to published in less than twenty minutes. I hit publish, got on a plane, and by the time we were in the air, it had a publication date.

That’s probably my record.

It’s total speculation, like most things posted about the process here, I can only assume I got on Laurel’s good girl list very quickly. Maybe as I messaged her about a couple of stories early on. Or maybe as my first story could only have been written by AI that had gone rogue and merged with Merriam Webster.

 

[TheLobster]

Note to self: must work on more original titles

If you want to figure out if a title has already been used, the algorithm for producing those final URL parts of stories seems to be:

1. Lowercase everything.
2. Remove everything that’s not a-z or 0-9 or a space.
3. Replace spaces with dashes.

and then, if it’s a duplicate, add another dash and a number.

Follow this recipe and you can make a URL for any title, to check if it exists. It’s not 100% because removed stories retain their URLs, and you always get the same “error 404” whether or not the story ever existed.

 

[SkyBubble]

IMO just wait. I just had a story sitting in Pending for almost 2 weeks. Still did fine.

I have one right now that's been in Pending for over a month. I know there's a heavy workload, so it's not a problem, but I am curious about it.