An anti-complaint about the time taken to post a story

[PastMaster]

No. That’s an adenosine.

Em

Adenosine is a cardiac drug for slowing your heart down.
its very effective but makes you feel like you are dying when you have it.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

OK, let’s go back to ‘teacher’s pet’.

It’s a dirty job, Emily, bit somebody’s got to do it. Thanks for relieving us of that burden.

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[EmilyMiller]

Since I had to look up "anodyne", I won't comment about the teacher's pet thing.

Amongst many other authors, I did used to read Poe quite a bit.

“Phantasmagoric armorial trophies”, from Usher, always stuck in my brain.

Em

 

[KeithD]

Almost all of my stories are posted in two days. (My latest, which was submitted yesterday, is marked for posting tomorrow). An exception is that my contest stories which, for a decade and more, universally posted the next day, now can take up to three days to post--taking longer than ones I've submitted to the regular file.

 

[EmilyMiller]

“Phantasmagoric armorial trophies”, from Usher, always stuck in my brain.

I want to include “phantom, orgasmic glossal blow jobs” in a story some time.

Em

 

[Paul_Chance]

I want to include “phantom, orgasmic glossal blow jobs” in a story some time.

Em

Hahaha - I'd read that story. "The Case of the Orgasmic Glossal".

 

[EmilyMiller]

I want to include “phantom, orgasmic glossal blow jobs” in a story some time.

Em

Actually - there is a challenge. Write a stroke story in the style of EAP.

Nevermore!

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Hahaha - I'd read that story. "The Case of the Orgasmic Glossal".

It’s the next one after The Giant Rat of Sumatra.

Em

 

[Djmac1031]

The only time I've had a major delay (longer than 48 hours) between submitting and publication is for my last story, but I now understand there were several factors involved.

1: I submitted it during a particularly busy contest schedule, despite it not being part of any said contests.

2: My story title confused Laurel.

The story was a sequel to a story I wrote a year ago entitled The White Room.

Instead of calling the sequel The White Room Part 2, I decided to title it The White Room Revisited.

Laurel misunderstood the intent and thought I was submitting an edit of the ORIGINAL story. Those are not on the priority list and so can sit for some time before she gets around to it.

Fortunately we worked through that misunderstanding and eventually got the sequel published.

Shit happens.

 

[Paul_Chance]

Actually - there is a challenge. Write a stroke story in the style of EAP.

Nevermore!

Em

Now, that would be a challenge I would take!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Now, that would be a challenge I would take!

Maybe more general - a comp / event where the only theme is to write porn in the style of a mainstream author.

Em

 

[MrPixel]

No. That’s an adenosine.

Huh? I thought that's what they removed with your tonsils.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Huh? I thought that's what they removed with your tonsils.

No. Your getting confused, that’s the positive terminal, the negative is called the cathedral.

Em

 

[Duleigh]

I've noticed that my stories dropped on a Thursday or Friday take a little longer to post than those dropped on a Monday. I'm not complaining because I don't like to work on weekends either.

 

[Duleigh]

anodyne inoffensive

I'm referring this to the Department of Redundancy Department.

 

[SabrinaGLangton]

AH often has threads bemoaning how long it takes to get stories published after submission. I just had a 22k word story (not long by some standards, but long enough) turned round in around 36 hours. I think that’s pretty darned good and it’s not a one-off, most of my stuff gets published within 48 hours.

Now maybe I’m not pushing against age or violence barriers. Maybe I get credit for having been a good girl in these areas of late. Maybe I’ve got a track record of mostly harmless sex romps.

It does seem to me that most threads complaining about publishing delays feature stories that are doing at least one of the following;

1. Flying close to the wind with some prohibited subject matter
2. A first or second submission, which tends to draw additional scrutiny
3. Containing a, probably innocent, trigger word or phrase (his skin was as smooth as a baby’s bottom)
4. Nit spulled vry will
5. Just overlooked for some reason (like the tsunami of submissions poor @Laurel has to deal with each day)

Do others have as smooth an experience as I do, or am I just teacher’s pet who writes anodyne inoffensive stuff?

Em

My stories publish between two and a half and five days, I am okay with that. I stress for the entire time, thinking I have some crazy trigger words like you mentioned. Usually, everything is fine; afterward, I don't stress for a while. Oooh, plus my stories are kinda long so that might be why they take a while.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Outside of contest, which probably get some sort of priority; I've always assumed that if there's no issues, or need of an explination, a story will post faster. If those things, and you post often enough, it'll post faster, especially if you've been here a long time- there's posters that are unforgettable to her, I'm sure.

Sometimes my stuff takes a few days, I also don't post stories much. I had a contest story done and submitted on the hour of the deadline once, it was sent back, corrected and went live about twenty minutes after deadline. I also submitted two things once, the first had zero issues, went up a day or three, and the second went up pretty much right after.

 

[MrPixel]

No. Your getting confused, that’s the positive terminal, the negative is called the cathedral.

Mrs. Malaprop would be so proud.

Of course, if you're into electricity play, you inherently know where the anode goes...

 

[EmilyMiller]

Mrs. Malaprop would be so proud.

Of course, if you're into electricity play, you inherently know where the anode goes...

I thought they were tropical lizards.

Em

 

[Red_Owl]

My first 2 stories took 4 days. The current one is at 17 days and counting. Nothing really different with this one from the one before so it might just be timing.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My first 2 stories took 4 days. The current one is at 17 days and counting. Nothing really different with this one from the one before so it might just be timing.

That's unusually long. Check that you've actually submitted it (Pending, not Draft). If it's illustrated, that could explain such a delay.

If it's routine, 17 days is unusual. I'd PM Laurel, asking if it's fallen between the cracks.

 

[EmilyMiller]

My first 2 stories took 4 days. The current one is at 17 days and counting. Nothing really different with this one from the one before so it might just be timing.

Just had one published within 24 hours. Must have hit it just right.

Em

 

[Zenith77]

Still at approx a week here. I wondered if it was category-dependent, but then I've posted into three different categories and the results are the same.

I figured it was just 'because of Easter', but if y'all are seeing things turned around in 24-48 hours it must just be me. That's ok, I was never the teacher's pet.

 

[tenyari]

I managed to delay my recent story quite a bit because I kept being annoying and fiddling with the title.

The actual title when I wrote it is about twice as long as what Literotica allows, so figuring out how to narrow that down and still get something that made sense to my weird mind while also hopefully catching the right readers was a pain. And judging by it's performance I didn't get it exactly right (I also should have changed it's category to one more in line with it's theme - if I can ever figure that out).

Next time I post one I might put in a little note to ask for it to be 'delayed until X day of the week', even if that means it takes an extra week to get out. I have a suspicion that the kinds of people who like reading my work are most likely to do so on a Friday evening followed by a Saturday. I might be wrong about that, but it seems like the best time to catch people that like very long slow building stories with lots of 'random' in them.

 

[EmilyMiller]

That's ok, I was never the teacher's pet.

My next story idea