How long do story edits take to get out of pending?

[designatedvictim]

Oh no! That's terrible! Fingers crossed for you. I only ever use uncentered "+++++" for section breaks, but now I feel like I should go check just to be sure.

I was thinking of just doing left-aligned, non-spaced asterisks on my next one.

 

[taytay4eva]

I was thinking of just doing left-aligned, non-spaced asterisks on my next one.

Might be a good idea, especially if it has trouble with 'fancy' web tags in stories

 

[YmaOHyd]

I just had a five-week old edit submission (11/27) drop off my Pending list today. The edits haven't appeared yet on the posted story.

Will be checking again tomorrow.

But while looking today, I noticed that my story was missing some, not all, section breaks.

Did I read somewhere that it has something to do with centering the separator (* * * * *)?

I saw this behavior on the desktop version of Chrome under Windows. I seem to recall it being mentioned on mobile displays.

Also noticed some missing lines at the page breaks.

Hopefully the edited text will turn up soon.

Yes, centering has caused some problems recently, fucking up a whole bunch of stories. I'm a little worried about it, because while normally I've used either left-aligned -- or ** for section breaks, one of the things I'm working on moves around in time non-linearly, and I want something really freaking obvious like centered text. But if centering doesn't work......

 

[Actingup]

In a less chaotic Litverse, I wouldn't mind the extra time for edits to be processed, as it would teach us all to take more care when pressing the 'submit' button the first time. Now, when we see stories being published that are riddled with errors, it just makes me grumpy.

 

[taytay4eva]

In a less chaotic Litverse, I wouldn't mind the extra time for edits to be processed, as it would teach us all to take more care when pressing the 'submit' button the first time. Now, when we see stories being published that are riddled with errors, it just makes me grumpy.

I am certainly learning to read over my stories one last time before I submit them, and to sit on them for a good time before assuming that I've done everything with it that I want to do. Prep competition stories well in advance, let regular stories stew for a time before sending them live, all that jazz.

It's good practice for if I ever submit my stories for paid publication somewhere, in any case.

 

[Actingup]

I am certainly learning to read over my stories one last time before I submit them, and to sit on them for a good time before assuming that I've done everything with it that I want to do. Prep competition stories well in advance, let regular stories stew for a time before sending them live, all that jazz.

It's good practice for if I ever submit my stories for paid publication somewhere, in any case.

Also, sorry for the damage to your exercise bike. Our home gym will never be the same since we got a Labrador. If you ever see me publish a story in which a big hairy slobbering thing is a very bad boy, that's why.

 

[designatedvictim]

I am certainly learning to read over my stories one last time before I submit them, and to sit on them for a good time before assuming that I've done everything with it that I want to do. Prep competition stories well in advance, let regular stories stew for a time before sending them live, all that jazz.

It's good practice for if I ever submit my stories for paid publication somewhere, in any case.

I read my more recent story (A Week of Sunrises) a bajillion times before posting and I still found issues with it after the fact.

It's not that I'm a dumbass (although the jury may still be out), but that I 'see' what should be on the page, not what's actually on the page.

 

[taytay4eva]

I read my more recent story (A Week of Sunrises) a bajillion times before posting and I still found issues with it after the fact.

It's not that I'm a dumbass (although the jury may still be out), but that I 'see' what should be on the page, not what's actually on the page.

I've found that reading the story out loud helps me catch mistakes, since it forces me to read what's actually there, instead of what I think is there. It takes longer to get through stories this way, especially with longer stories, but it helps edits go easier.

 

[designatedvictim]

I've found that reading the story out loud helps me catch mistakes, since it forces me to read what's actually there, instead of what I think is there. It takes longer to get through stories this way, especially with longer stories, but it helps edits go easier.

I finally looked at Word's voice feature. It's awfully primitive and, for some reason, seems to choke on large highlighted regions to read.

Kind of brutal, but when I first tried it a few weeks ago, I found a few things to tweak.

 

[taytay4eva]

I finally looked at Word's voice feature. It's awfully primitive and, for some reason, seems to choke on large highlighted regions to read.

Kind of brutal, but when I first tried it a few weeks ago, I found a few things to tweak.

Oh, I read it out loud myself. I'd want to claw my ears out if I had a mechanical voice reading it for me. I need to know I can control the pace.

 

[Trionyx]

If you ever see me publish a story in which a big hairy slobbering thing is a very bad boy, that's why.

Now why would you be writing a story about me?