Winter Holiday 2024 Support Thread

[WriterPerson314159]

WP, add a link to your stories in your signature. It makes it easier for people to read them.

Thanks! I’ve added one now.

 

[Morevinila]

I've sent my story since Friday and it's still "pending" - don't know if it's because it week-end time - anyway I'm hoping it will be up by tomorrow and I'll post the link then. I'm hoping you writers will have a look and comment - I'm still fledging my wings as a writer so your comments are always helpful.

 

[TheLobster]

I've sent my story since Friday and it's still "pending" - don't know if it's because it week-end time - anyway I'm hoping it will be up by tomorrow and I'll post the link then. I'm hoping you writers will have a look and comment - I'm still fledging my wings as a writer so your comments are always helpful.

In my experience, stories submitted on Friday or even Thursday are almost certain to be published the next Monday at the earliest.

 

[AlexFourways]

I've been keeping some numbers out of interest too... I'm interested in the way that views and votes change with the number of stories. More on that later perhaps, but I think that with some curve fitting you could probably make a rough prediction on what the number of stories will be by end of the contest.

I'll leave that cat of nine tails to Acting up to swing on his own back!
UPDATE
My story count of published stories - 11th 14, 12th 26, 13th 31, 14th 36, 15th 43, 16th 47, 17th 48.
So 14 + 12 + 5 + 5 + 7 + 4 + 1
OK, this is probably the weekend lull that I have noticed before, so expect a bumper Monday 18th. Actingup's graph will have a slump / bump but I am sure he can predict over it!

I have made a (small) rod for my own back (with extra flail) and would stop the flagilation but have been told NOT TO!

 

[Actingup]

I'll leave that cat of nine tails to Acting up to swing on his own back!
UPDATE
My story count of published stories - 11th 14, 12th 26, 13th 31, 14th 36, 15th 43, 16th 47, 17th 48.
So 14 + 12 + 5 + 5 + 7 + 4 + 1
OK, this is probably the weekend lull that I have noticed before, so expect a bumper Monday 18th. Actingup's graph will have a slump / bump but I am sure he can predict over it!

I have made a (small) rod for my own back (with extra flail) and would stop the flagilation but have been told NOT TO!

I made it 48 on the 16th, but that's neither here nor there
If we did just a simple linear trend, we would get this (European date system):


Note there will be some variation in dates due to time differences, but the last entry is on the 6th, so probably all entries published by the 9th. Last year there were 156 stories, so a similar result isn't out of the question, but it's too early to tell without seeing if there's a post-weekend bump in publishing.

 

[AlexFourways]

I made it 48 on the 16th, but that's neither here nor there

As just count the lines on screen (usually just the blue ones and double + any spare white one) I reserve the right to be wrong and it is quite likely there was 0 growth over night. (such things are only updated daily).

If we did just a simple linear trend, we would get this (European date system):

From my research there are three date systems commonly used (as in by the common people) when using the Gregorian Calendar.
MM/DD/YY United States of America.
YYYY/MM/DD Canada
DD/MM/YY Those places not mentioned above!

I'll keep up my series - you can do the crystal ball work!