One a Day?

[sr71plt]

Anyone get more than one story posted a day to Lit. recently? (At one time there was no limit.) Twice in the last two weeks I've submitted more than one story on a day (when I'm running a long series, I like to toss in a standalone for those who don't follow series), but both times, one posted in two days but the other was pushed to the third day.

(My current avatar, incidentally, is the book cover from the series I have running at the moment, The Handyman.)

 

[Weird Harold]

Anyone get more than one story posted a day to Lit. recently? (At one time there was no limit.) Twice in the last two weeks I've submitted more than one story on a day (when I'm running a long series, I like to toss in a standalone for those who don't follow series), but both times, one posted in two days but the other was pushed to the third day.

(My current avatar, incidentally, is the book cover from the series I have running at the moment, The Handyman.)

I think that is a function of submissions volume. If there are a lot of stories to post, Laurel would rather post 100 different authors in 100 different categories than double up on any story characteristic. There is a contest going, so the contest stories are going to get priority for posting and that's going to leave less room in the posting schedule for multiples from any author.

It is an extension of the same logic that allows submitting all the chapters at once to get a one-a-day posting schedule.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I've recently had three stories posted in a day back in August or September and two stories routinely posted in a day throughout the year.

Laurel even posted chapters 1 & 2 of my latest story Losing the House & Winning Mom on the same day. I asked her not to do that but she did anyway. That's not the first time she did that to me either (lol).

Oh, well. There's nothing that I can do. It's out of my control when and where she posts my stories, usually at the bottom of the pile, especially when it's an incest story.

I suspect Laurel doesn't particularly care for incestuous stories.

I have a better shot posting higher up with romance, mature, and exhibitionism/voyeurism.

 

[sr71plt]

I think that is a function of submissions volume. If there are a lot of stories to post, Laurel would rather post 100 different authors in 100 different categories than double up on any story characteristic. There is a contest going, so the contest stories are going to get priority for posting and that's going to leave less room in the posting schedule for multiples from any author.

It is an extension of the same logic that allows submitting all the chapters at once to get a one-a-day posting schedule.

I am wondering if it's an unannounced policy change. I've seen days where a half dozen or more stories by a single author got posted, and I've never known a day that was short on supply--the days I noticed this usually were in years past when posting was going to four and five days sometimes (and I thought it was hoggish to let one author through with half a dozen stories when posting was bogging down for others with just one story). Also, the stories I'm talking about were submitted before the current contest started.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've recently had three stories posted in a day back in August or September and two stories routinely posted in a day throughout the year.

Laurel even posted chapters 1 & 2 of my latest story Losing the House & Winning Mom on the same day. I asked her not to do that but she did anyway. That's not the first time she did that to me either (lol).

Oh, well. There's nothing that I can do. It's out of my control when and where she posts my stories, usually at the bottom of the pile, especially when it's an incest story.

I suspect Laurel doesn't particularly care for incestuous stories.

I have a better shot posting higher up with romance, mature, and exhibitionism/voyeurism.

That's pretty obvious, but as a business owner she knows it brings a lot of people here. If she ever questioned what would happen if she got rid of it she now has Lush stories as an example, they fell fast and hard when they decided to nix it.

More than a few have pointed out how 'interesting' it is that incest has such huge readership and popularity, but rarely-and not at all in recent history-places in contests.

i think the sweeps reward the lower categories as a way to keep it out.

 

[RejectReality]

Actually, well over half of Incest's contest placings have been in the last five years. It's doing better now than it ever did historically. For that matter, almost every category except the top 3 is winning more contests in the last 5 years than they ever did in the previous 10+.

As to placing it low on the list, it makes sense. It creeps a lot of people out, so having it at the top can turn someone away. For those it doesn't creep out, they're not going to hesitate to scroll down, and once they get used to the stories appearing lower on the list, they do it automatically.

The focus is shifting away from the full-site new list anyway, from what I've seen. Everyone is migrating to the category new lists. Only the top dozen or so see any effect from the full-site lists.

Lush took a serious hit between dropping incest and going "freemium" membership. About a year and a half to two years ago, they had a traffic ranking of under 5k for the world and now they're at 45k.

( Lit is around 2.5k consistently, which is better than Playboy, Hustler, etc. websites )

As to the question of the thread, I have no insight. I haven't posted anything in over three months, and it's been years since I've had two stories ready at the same time.