story approval

[eroticchick_84]

How long does it usually take for your story to be approved... I wrote it and submitted it on Saturday March 08?

 

[The_Fractal_King]

How long does it usually take for your story to be approved... I wrote it and submitted it on Saturday March 08?

It takes a minimum of three days. I've never had a story go through faster than six days.

 

[sr71plt]

It takes a minimum of three days. I've never had a story go through faster than six days.

And, other than contest entries, which can post the next day, I haven't had one posted in less than a week after submission for over a year. The next one up in my queue has now been there eight days.

 

[starrkers]

Usually a week, give or take a day or so. But if you call up your story while it's pending it's likely to be pushed to the end of the queue again.

 

[The_Fractal_King]

How many people are responsible for making approvals anyway?

 

[starrkers]

Don't know. But I have heard rumours that Laurel does the lot on her own. Can't see how she could possibly manage it myself, even using bots to weed out the obviously poorly written/unsuitable ones.

 

[Darkniciad]

And, other than contest entries, which can post the next day, I haven't had one posted in less than a week after submission for over a year. The next one up in my queue has now been there eight days.

Probably from uploading Word documents ( If I remember how you said you submit properly ) Those always take longer to post.

Of course, if they go through the way you want them to, it's fast enough, and you don't have to muddle with formatting them manually, all's good. I can see how the extra day or so would be worth not having to insert any formatting.

I'm just too impatient to see mine post

Most of mine go through in 6-7 days, but perhaps one quarter have hit the 4-5 day barrier, and at least two posted in three days. Never any faster than that except in contests, where my record is less than 10 minutes *laugh*

 

[sr71plt]

Probably from uploading Word documents ( If I remember how you said you submit properly ) Those always take longer to post.

Of course, if they go through the way you want them to, it's fast enough, and you don't have to muddle with formatting them manually, all's good. I can see how the extra day or so would be worth not having to insert any formatting.

I'm just too impatient to see mine post

Most of mine go through in 6-7 days, but perhaps one quarter have hit the 4-5 day barrier, and at least two posted in three days. Never any faster than that except in contests, where my record is less than 10 minutes *laugh*

I'm on a story every other day schedule and have a couple month's backlog, so I'm well past the blush of "just having to" see it posted the moment I've submitted. There's another site that pays for all of mine and that will post the next day, so that takes the edge off the anxiety.

 

[Darkniciad]

I'm on a story every other day schedule and have a couple month's backlog, so I'm well past the blush of "just having to" see it posted the moment I've submitted. There's another site that pays for all of mine and that will post the next day, so that takes the edge off the anxiety.

My muse is too unpredictable ( part of why I could never be a real writer ). So when I actually finish something, I'm over-eager to see it. Most of mine post elsewhere in a few hours as well, but the extra wait for them to go live here is still too much.

Nobody would ever pay for my yarns. I'd have serious questions about whether they'd stay in business long enough to pay me if they did *laugh*

My fingers still churn out code from motor memory anyway, so adding the formatting doesn't require any real effort in my case.

Back on topic: Stories with additional elements ( audio, illustrated ) will take longer to post than stories with just text, too. Anyone peeking in this thread to get the answer to the "question" without asking it, keep that in mind along with everything else.

 

[sr71plt]

My muse is too unpredictable ( part of why I could never be a real writer ). So when I actually finish something, I'm over-eager to see it. Most of mine post elsewhere in a few hours as well, but the extra wait for them to go live here is still too much.

Nobody would ever pay for my yarns. I'd have serious questions about whether they'd stay in business long enough to pay me if they did *laugh*

My fingers still churn out code from motor memory anyway, so adding the formatting doesn't require any real effort in my case.

Back on topic: Stories with additional elements ( audio, illustrated ) will take longer to post than stories with just text, too. Anyone peeking in this thread to get the answer to the "question" without asking it, keep that in mind along with everything else.

*laughs* Well, we're not even talking about minimum wage here. I know the feeling of wanting the story I wrote last night to be posted tomorrow, but that ain't gonna happen here, so it's just something to live with. At least when it is posted here, it gets more reads--and usually better reception--than anywhere else I've found to post them.

 

[Darkniciad]

*laughs* Well, we're not even talking about minimum wage here. I know the feeling of wanting the story I wrote last night to be posted tomorrow, but that ain't gonna happen here, so it's just something to live with. At least when it is posted here, it gets more reads--and usually better reception--than anywhere else I've found to post them.

I actually get a lot more feedback emails from the other site, and a lot more detailed as well. I have a few readers over there that send me thousand word emails every time I put out a new story/chapter.

A few stories play better here than there, and a few better there than here, but most of the time it's about even. The scores are usually ( when put on the same scale, they have 1-10 ) in about the same place as well.

And now, some on-topic, so I don't feel guilty.

Cut and pasting your story into the story text part of the submission form will post faster than uploading a document in a word processor format ( doc, wpd, rtf ) and you can preview it before submitting.

Uploading a plain text document with html markups for formatting seems to post at the same speed as cut-n-paste, and you can also preview this before submitting.

While stories entered in a contest will post with unusual swiftness, stories put in the queue at the same time as a contest but not entered in the contest often take longer to post than usual.

That's enough threadjack penance for now

 

[sr71plt]

I actually get a lot more feedback emails from the other site, and a lot more detailed as well. I have a few readers over there that send me thousand word emails every time I put out a new story/chapter.

A few stories play better here than there, and a few better there than here, but most of the time it's about even. The scores are usually ( when put on the same scale, they have 1-10 ) in about the same place as well.

Of course I wonder what other wonderful site that is. (Although I don't think I could absorb thousand-word e-mails).

 

[starrkers]

I'm wondering if it's the same one I recently started posting my crap to. It has a 1-10 voting scale but a weird scaling system that I don't understand at all.

 

[Darkniciad]

I'm wondering if it's the same one I recently started posting my crap to. It has a 1-10 voting scale but a weird scaling system that I don't understand at all.

Probably, and nobody understands the scoring manipulation *laugh* It's supposed to "spread out the scores" to compensate for the tendency of readers to vote on the extreme ends of the scale, and most people to be on the high end because they don't vote on something they don't like. It's weighed by the scores of everything coming out during the same period of time, so if a popular author starts a new multi-part series at the same time your story comes out, his/her large number of high votes drives your displayed score down. The more 9s and 10s they get that week, the less your votes are worth when calculating the displayed score.

( If a whole flotilla of less than stellar stories comes out at the same time, your votes should be worth more, but there's usually a multi-parter blowing the curve daily )

The formula means that your displayed ( Qscore ) can change daily, even if you don't get any new votes. Votes on other people's stories released in the same time frame have bearing on your score.

It's a little nutsoid, but the fast posting time and detailed feedback ( including catching numerous flubs that nobody here blinked an eye at, and pointing them out in a constructive way ) combines with my diminishing anxiety over vote scores to make me shrug and just keep on posting.

I just ignore the Q score for the most part, and pay attention to the raw vote score, which thankfully still appears from your end as an author.

Having to sign up seems to keep down the numbers of trolls, too. I've never received a single "u suk" type comment from there.

It's a nice complement and counterpoint to Lit. The reader base isn't anywhere near as large, I don't believe, but there's a different makeup to that base. The combined data gives me a better idea how readers liked my story.

Crap, I'm too tired this morning to think of any more threadjack penance. I'll do two later

 

[starrkers]

Ah, right. No wonder I couldn't make sense of it

The fast posting has caught me on the hop a couple of times - stories up in 15 minutes! I think the longest I've waited was three hours. I haven't had a lot of feedback, but what I've had has been solid.