It doesn't cover the latter. When your story is approved, it will change status from Pending to New+Published and the date on it will reflect the scheduled publication time.
You don't have to think of comments as critiques. Most reader's comments are not critiques.
This may vary with how long the story is in pending. My last three stories (at least) where approved and remained in pending after they were approved until they were published. The turn-around on those stories was short. If it had been longer then maybe they would have appeared outside the Pending list.
How did you know they were approved if they status remained as Pending? It's likely they were just waves through at the last minute, before another batch of stories were to go live, and so you never saw them as New+Published.
Their listing in Pending showed the New tag and the publication date, but they didn't appear in my catalog until they were published.
Definitely. I have tried to message a few people but either I am doing something wrong, or most are not setup to receive them.
If you mean message by DM, then that will only work with authors who visit the forums. If you mean message by email, then there's a good chance it's going to their junk folders. Also, if you expect a reply, then you have to give them your email. They can't reply to the account that Lit uses to send the mail.
Oh I didn't see the message by email thing - I must be blind. Whatever I did rarely works
I genuinely forgot to include it as a tag before submitting mine... But I also wonder if not including the tag might limit a story's exposure to strategic one-bombing?
A collated list exists regardless -- indeed, it's the whole point of all contests -- so trolls always have easy means to find all stories they want to 1-bomb.
You never know. Right before the final scores are tallied, there is a sweep of bogus votes ( no one knows what the criteria are or how the sweep is done, though ) and score can jump significantly. At 4.82 you are definitely in the mix. Even if you don’t win, the exposure is worth it.
Absolutely. @RoyalAuthor, as an example, during the last comp my story was at 4.67 a week before the sweeps were done, and ended up at 4.90 at the pointy end of proceedings. We don't have visibility of the sweeps, but I had suspected that I'd had a few bombs early in the contest, and the overall volume of votes was reasonably low due to it being a relatively long story on a niche subject, so any bombs would have made a difference.
Thank you again, sorry about the sunscreen thing lol.
Well, there was definitely enough sunscreen to reduce the risk of your main characters from all that exposure, so you're being a very responsible author!! Unlike me for my summer story - I went entirely the other way with sunscreen and look what happened...
Might be the best subtle plug for a story I've seen on here. I just have to know what that means...
LW *and* a contest entry? You should be so lucky.
Yeah good luck. I am one and done with that category.
Story idea: a Lit author with an uncontrollable humiliation kink writes only incendiary LW stories because they crave the negative attention...
