Submission taking ages to clear

[rondudderie]

Hi folks,

I submitted the first chapter of my new book on the evening of the 27th. It's now the evening of the 31st (where I am) and it's not even 'pending' yet. Should I be worried, or is there a massive backlog I'm not aware of?

 

[sr71plt]

If it doesn't say "pending," it didn't get submitted. Maybe you need to go through the preview and submit buttons again.

 

[rondudderie]

Ah, you're right. What I meant to say was that 'pending' is still blue, not grey. I believe it says 'processing' then, but it has been a while.

Five days now. I have 30 chapters ready. Could be a while to post this one, then.

 

[rondudderie]

From pending to approved in about an hour. So 4.5 days atm.

 

[rondudderie]

Chapter two: five days so far. Now personally I would put a gun to my head if I had to wade through vast quantities of this stuff, but this is ridiculous. I just want to give my readers a nice chapter to start each weekend. That shouldn't take this much planning on my part.

 

[Serafina1210]

My recent stuff has been posted much quicker. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I always note the ages of my major characters in the "Notes" field along with anything else a script or fast read might flag, e.g. if there's violence, explaining briefly what it's about.

I don't know if this kind of thing speeds the review process, but I suspect it may.

 

[sr71plt]

My recent stuff has been posted much quicker. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I always note the ages of my major characters in the "Notes" field along with anything else a script or fast read might flag, e.g. if there's violence, explaining briefly what it's about.

I don't know if this kind of thing speeds the review process, but I suspect it may.

It probably does help, but I don't know why it should. A diligent editor wouldn't just take a claim in the Notes box as what could actually be found in the text. Wouldn't someone trying to slip underage through do just that?

 

[Handley_Page]

Chapter two: five days so far. Now personally I would put a gun to my head if I had to wade through vast quantities of this stuff, but this is ridiculous. I just want to give my readers a nice chapter to start each weekend. That shouldn't take this much planning on my part.

How many words in a chapter (roughly)?

 

[Serafina1210]

How many words in a chapter (roughly)?

His 1 April story ran two Lit pages, or maybe one and a fraction.

 

[Serafina1210]

It probably does help, but I don't know why it should. A diligent editor wouldn't just take a claim in the Notes box as what could actually be found in the text. Wouldn't someone trying to slip underage through do just that?

I don't know how diligent it's possible to be on a site with this volume. If I were doing it, I'd use a script to look for problematic keywords and look at the flagged passages. I'd take the word of an author who'd given no trouble as to what was in a story, and I'd come down hard on anyone who was proved to have lied about underage or whatever in a note. I'd probably give a careful read to new authors. The OP has published just two stories and maybe is getting extra scrutiny.

 

[sr71plt]

I agree. It's just that it's pretty meaningless to put disclaimers in the Notes box or in notes in front of the story unless a specific explanation might be needed. Someone trying to slip something otherwise not acceptable through could just as easily use that to try to fool the editor as could someone being correct and honest.

 

[rondudderie]

This is the 3rd book I'm publishing here, in serial form. Usually it takes 2-3 days per chapter. I have my books deleted after about a month, because I didn't just write them to give Literotica some free content for all eternity, and it feels like a sort of revenge for that.

I sort of hoped they would have sussed by now my books reliably score 4.6 - 4.8 every time and attract thousands of readers. Apparently, an author doesn't build up any kind of track record on this site. Rather, I get the feeling it's best to keep my head down to prevent some mod from smiting me. This is not a welcoming place to publish. But it has the audience, so it can afford this attitude.

I did ask for a url change, though. A random 3 was appended to my previous url. But I don't think that's it because it concerns another chapter.

 

[sr71plt]

This is the 3rd book I'm publishing here, in serial form. Usually it takes 2-3 days per chapter. I have my books deleted after about a month, because I didn't just write them to give Literotica some free content for all eternity, and it feels like a sort of revenge for that.

I would think that would be a reason for Lit. to stop publishing your stories at all. Why should Laurel go through the effort to host--and the delete from the system--a story that is only going to be shared here for a month? You may not write them to give Literotica free content, but that's why Lit. is in business--to provide free content.

 

[lovecraft68]

I would think that would be a reason for Lit. to stop publishing your stories at all. Why should Laurel go through the effort to host--and the delete from the system--a story that is only going to be shared here for a month? You may not write them to give Literotica free content, but that's why Lit. is in business--to provide free content.

I would imagine if the OP didn't some out and say this that Laurel would have never noticed he puts up stories and deletes them shortly. She blurs through 75 or so stories a night, I doubt she recalls much.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't see how that relates to the point, and she may, in fact, have noticed. The dude is complaining about his story not going up after five days.

 

[JKendallDane]

This is the 3rd book I'm publishing here, in serial form. Usually it takes 2-3 days per chapter. I have my books deleted after about a month, because I didn't just write them to give Literotica some free content for all eternity, and it feels like a sort of revenge for that.

I sort of hoped they would have sussed by now my books reliably score 4.6 - 4.8 every time and attract thousands of readers. Apparently, an author doesn't build up any kind of track record on this site. Rather, I get the feeling it's best to keep my head down to prevent some mod from smiting me. This is not a welcoming place to publish. But it has the audience, so it can afford this attitude.

I did ask for a url change, though. A random 3 was appended to my previous url. But I don't think that's it because it concerns another chapter.

It's kind of hard to build up a track record when you're yanking your stories out of the database after only a month or so.

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[LesLumens]

You're also publishing to Novels and Novellas, which is in the bottom tier of readership. An Incest/Mature/Loving Wives story can garner as many reads in fifteen minutes as your chapters will pick up in the entire month you leave them on Lit. I think you may be overestimating the value of your short-lived contribution.

What you're doing is attempting to use Lit as a platform to drive readers to your paid work. On a site with a less forgiving admin, delayed posting would be the least of your problems. You'd have been banned already.