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[iwatchus]

It seems like Laurel is being careful about that, But at worst I think, you lose. It was probably not going to win a prize anyway. It can be added to the list retroactively.

 

[MetaBob]

Not sure what you mean? I have a story edit pending from October 5th, that’s not abnormal. And I can imagine edits are even further down the priority list right now.

I followed the instructions in this FAQ article: https://www.literotica.com/faq/publishing/editing-published-work

My story edit has been pending since September 14th.

The original story, which I write for the 2025 Summer Lovin' contest, is Travel Nurse, or The Last Word. Adding "- EDITED" after the title would make it too long, so changing the title to "STORY EDIT" is the recommended fallback plan, which I did. My modifications are minor.

 

[Nightaelf]

How long is your story that is pending? I'm curious if shorter submissions are getting gone through faster than longer ones. Pure speculation though.

I think about 6000 words

 

[cw5523729]

I think about 6000 words

Damn. Never mind then, back to the drawing board.

eta: I just checked and my latest approved part is 8k words.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yeah...
I don't really get it. I understand a backlog and things can happen. But just inform us.
I know it's a free site, but I think we all put a lot of free effort into our writing too. It would be nice to be aknowledged for that.

Can’t argue with that

 

[EmilyMiller]

I followed the instructions in this FAQ article: https://www.literotica.com/faq/publishing/editing-published-work

My story edit has been pending since September 14th.

The original story, which I write for the 2025 Summer Lovin' contest, is Travel Nurse, or the Last Word. Adding "- EDITED" after the title would make it too long, so changing the title to "STORY EDIT" is the recommended fallback plan, which I did. My modifications are minor.

Did you state which story it was for in the Notes box?

 

[iwatchus]

Can’t argue with that

The post-mortem of Monday's AWS debacle shows how trying to do anything else during recovery (even just recovery itself) can be counter-productive.

If you are technically inclined, the story of it is humorous, even a little PTSD inducing to me. https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

 

[lovingfeeling23]

Julia's Nightmare Part 2.

Submitted 9/22/25.

Before this stories, all my stories were published within 3 days.

MILF and the Scouts 10/6/25
Nap Time with Uncle Johnny 10/9/25

It’s never taken this long for me and I’m holding new stories until this can be resolved

 

[EmilyMiller]

MILF and the Scouts 10/6/25
Nap Time with Uncle Johnny 10/9/25

It’s never taken this long for me and I’m holding new stories until this can be resolved

Delete and resubmit

 

[MetaBob]

Did you state which story it was for in the Notes box?

Of course.

 

[metalgear11]

Pushing the roommate boundaries - 09-21-2025
Beyond the usual fare Pt2 - 10-04-2025

 

[EmilyMiller]

Pushing the roommate boundaries - 09-21-2025
Beyond the usual fare Pt2 - 10-04-2025

Delete and resubmit

 

[Nightaelf]

The post-mortem of Monday's AWS debacle shows how trying to do anything else during recovery (even just recovery itself) can be counter-productive.

If you are technically inclined, the story of it is humorous, even a little PTSD inducing to me. https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

Maybe that Lady Gaga song Abracadabra was actually about this.

But in short, that incredibly long and boring text, where “DNS” pops up about fifty times, basically says something crashed, and the recovery process caused another crash. And because they tried to speed things up with auto-scripts, even more systems started rebooting.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Just submitted my first story after more than a year. I'll let you know how it fares in the queue.
I'll be honest, I'd be pretty pissed off if they mess it up somehow.

It's 26k words long, and it took me a long time to finish it.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Forty-two minutes in, and no approval yet. Words can't express my outrage.

 

[Just4Sheets]

As of today I have 5 stories sitting in Pending:

2 since 9/25 (30 days)​

Happy Anniversary (Group Sex)
Three Wishes (Sci Fi/Fantasy)

1 since 10/4 (21 days)​

Benny The Bull - Book 01 (Group Sex)

1 since 10/9 (16 days)​

The Rules (Group Sex)

And 1 since 10/21 (under 15 days so not listing here)

Not sure what my next step is. All 4 of those were well over 3 weeks when I decided to resubmit them .. so those first 2 are 30 days but really over 50 days.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

J4S

 

[EmilyMiller]

My sympathies!

I can only suggest wholly deleting them and resubmitting. It’s not guaranteed to work, but it’s worth trying as it has helped some people.

 

[LeahWill]

@Laurel and @Manu we should quantify this current problem, which seems to be impacting many authors and impinging on Event / Competition submissions.

Thank you for the thread.

I requested that a series be created in early September.

 

[DEFCOM5]

I posted a story in Satire and it I got published within 30 hours.

I think that there is a small amount of stories that fall randomly in the black pending hole.

@Just4Sheets , you got very unlucky to have stories caught unless you publish a ton of stories weekly.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Thank you for the thread.

I requested that a series be created in early September.

Series can take like four weeks to be approved at the best of times, and this is hardly the best of times.

 

[LeahWill]

Series can take like four weeks to be approved at the best of times, and this is hardly the best of times.

Okeydoke.
Thank you for the update.

 

[IWroteThis]

At The Gym (Group Sex)

Originally submitted 9/21
Changed to 9/22 without any interaction on my part
Resubmitted on 9/29 with a Note to Editor confirming that all characters were 18 or older
Resubmitted on 10/16 with age and AI disclaimers in the Notes to Editor

 

[iwatchus]

At The Gym (Group Sex)

Originally submitted 9/21
Changed to 9/22 without any interaction on my part
Resubmitted on 9/29 with a Note to Editor confirming that all characters were 18 or older
Resubmitted on 10/16 with age and AI disclaimers in the Notes to Editor

Did you get returned from some of those? I assume so from your disclaimers you added.

The internal date changes (like the 9/22) have always happened sometimes. Or at least for years before me. The belief is that it means the story passed some internal stage in the pipeline, maybe an AI checker, maybe creating the page name. Details are all pure conjecture on our part.

 

[IWroteThis]

Did you get returned from some of those? I assume so from your disclaimers you added.

The internal date changes (like the 9/22) have always happened sometimes. Or at least for years before me. The belief is that it means the story passed some internal stage in the pipeline, maybe an AI checker, maybe creating the page name. Details are all pure conjecture on our part.

No. It has just been stuck in Pending the whole time.

 

[iwatchus]

No. It has just been stuck in Pending the whole time.

I'm confused why you added the disclaimers each time. And you only waited a week (8 days from submission) for the first one.

To be honest, if I was Laurel, I would be reading the story carefully now, checking to see if it had underage characters you were trying to slide by. Let her reject something for that before you try to defend it, unless there really is a problem.

Same for the AI. Unless you know something about your story, why would she have any suspicion of AI? I have no doubt that stories from @Actingup and @MelissaBaby are clean of AI (or underage) and they got caught in the pending.

I'm not surprised that mine got stuck at least briefly, and I think the problem was that some things that were stuck briefly got wedged long term. It seems to be better, if not completely back to where it was earlier this summer. Personally, I'm going to leave mine sit for a long time before resubmitting again. (I have after three weeks, twice).