How long does it take to get approvals?

[mwm69writer]

Hi guys,

Just how long does it take, on average, to have three stories reviewed? I uploaded 3 stories over a week ago now, via a cut 'n paste into the text box, did the preview and submit but all three still say "pending".

Today, I went through the process again (preview and submit) so I guess I've gone to the bottom of the queue now too?

 

[cantdog]

THE question.

It can take as much as two weeks, if contest entries are being put up, under deadline, or if it's in a format from a word processor. But you pasted it in, so you are spared that delay.


Anyway, in the sunny atmosphere of a time when no contests are happening and the end of the month work isn't being done to the site, it can take five days or so. Three for a poem, if it isn't The Rape of the Lock or something.

Contest submissions themselves frequently go up in mere hours.

 

[MagicaPractica]

FYI, the winter contest just ended and Survivor is going on until the end of the month. So, like cantdog said, figure on two weeks.

 

[sr71plt]

Today, I went through the process again (preview and submit) so I guess I've gone to the bottom of the queue now too?

Yes, that puts you back at the beginning of the submissions wait.

 

[NoJo]

The question is, why are you looking for approval?

 

[The_Fool]

The question is, why are you looking for approval?

You are just jealous because you know that nobody approves of you....


'sup Joe?

 

[NoJo]

You are just jealous because you know that nobody approves of you....


'sup Joe?

Well, I didn't die, and I didn't go to heaven. In fact, turns out, I didn't even come close. But anyway I had a slight case of full-body burn out for a little while.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I grew this beard while waiting for a story to submit.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c65/theegoatpig/03-04-2006.jpg

 

[cantdog]

yak. from the belly.

 

[emap]

Thee don't take this the wrong way, but I sat there looking at your picture, and I had to figure out what was missing. Then it hit me, a pair of horns.

Sorry you got a sort of goatee thing going with bushy cheeks and the hair reminds me of the devil pictures they used to draw for carnivals and such. Of course your not that red.

Now ahem the question has been asked, Jenny will have to come in and tell mwm what his penance is for asking. However i recall it from the last time the QUESTION has been asked.

So as near as I can remember it, you must, mwm this means you, collect all of the remaining virgins of the world and deliver them to us your ahem fellow authors. I must at this time ask for a hot little lady, red head would be preferred but brunette is fine, no blonde's I like having a brain in the noggin of my lovers. (I am rather jonesin for a litle lady loving instead of my guy, call it old age) After that you must PM Jenny and ask for her address so you can send her a check for I beleive it is $29.95, must be american dollars mind. At which point you can sit back and watch the grass grow for a period of two to three weeks.

On a more personal note, I also must ask for a nice little shrubbery, not to big, not to small, just so. It must have some lovely flowers, but not to much. There also must be a little spring with a dainty little bridge. Now begone before I start saying Neh a whole lot more.

Anyway yeah just assume about two weeks from the time you last submitted it.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Thee don't take this the wrong way, but I sat there looking at your picture, and I had to figure out what was missing. Then it hit me, a pair of horns.

Sorry you got a sort of goatee thing going with bushy cheeks and the hair reminds me of the devil pictures they used to draw for carnivals and such. Of course your not that red.

I wish I had horns. That would be so cool!







I haven't had the beard for a couple of years though. I have been mostly clean shaven.

 

[Oblimo]

TGP, you'd made one hell of a satyric hobbit. Very Tookish indeed.

 

[emap]

So oddly enough, I know how you can get horns. I was watching some show and they had a tattoed guy with horns, sorta vestial horns but horns nonetheless.

Anyway, he said he went to a plastic surgeon and had them implanted I can't recall what exactly, I think surgical metal, may have been a plastic as well.

So if your ever thinking of going for a full devil look you know where to go.

So kinda silly, but I actually think you would look better with a beard, not the goatee one you showed us before but a regular old beard.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Yeah... I'm not having surgery to have horns implanted. That's dorky to the max (just like that sentence ). No, horns are only cool if you grow them naturally by shear will of power, or evil or something.

 

[maggot420]

Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.

 

[cloudy]

Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.

Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.

And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravest of the braaaave, Sir Robin!

 

[maggot420]

Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.

And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravest of the braaaave, Sir Robin!

 

[Frank Noir]

The short answer:

Longer than you expect.

But not as long as it feels.

(Hmmm - I should use that phrase in a story one day)