Question on times

[Canchon]

Hey everyone, I'm a new author, just submitted my first story. What's the usual timeframes from pending to posted?

 

[Hypoxia]

Hey everyone, I'm a new author, just submitted my first story. What's the usual timeframes from pending to posted?

Patience, grasshopper. First time might take a week. Watching the pot boil takes forever. Write more to fill your time and distract your attention. Have fun!

 

[MelissaBaby]

Hey everyone, I'm a new author, just submitted my first story. What's the usual timeframes from pending to posted?

Usually, three to five days, but it can vary depending on the work load.

 

[redzinger]

My last one (Romance) took 8 days.

 

[KeithD]

For thirteen years, for over 1,100 stories in various account names, mine have rarely taken more than two days to post. Three times that I can remember, stories fell in the cracks on posting, and a PM to Laurel after a week had them posted the next day.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hey everyone, I'm a new author, just submitted my first story. What's the usual timeframes from pending to posted?

2 - 5 days, typically. New writers a couple of days longer because your content will be read a little closer to make sure it complies with Lit content rules. Patience is advised .

Welcome aboard.

 

[KeithD]

I submitted a chapter to the regular file yesterday and it's now marked to post tomorrow. So, two days.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Multimedia stories (illustrated and/or audio) are an exception to the times above. Those seem to be posted in monthly batches. Otherwise, yes, about two days seems to be normal, anything over a week means something's gone wrong.

 

[Canchon]

I've already written another 4 chapters in this series, I'm working on it as a BDSM theme, but I'm including a lot of romance. Trying to show the human side and emotional connection needed in a D/s relationship.

 

[Canchon]

AHH! I'm going stir crazy! 3 days and still on pending, I'm already on chapter 5, week 2 and sent my characters to a tropical weekend!

 

[Canchon]

Update, the story was sent back due to character dialogue, and I didn't specify that they were adults, even when the first few lines actually mention a 20 year friendship. Will be reformatting the story and trying again.

 

[Canchon]

I couldn't send you a PM. If you want an extra pair of eyes, looking at it...

Thanks RubenR, I'd love that, how would I be able to send you the story for editing?

 

[Canchon]

ok, reformatted the story to break up the dialogue, put in the disclaimer that no underage sex is or had been going on. I'll put the links up as soon as they're approved

 

[NotWise]

ok, reformatted the story to break up the dialogue, put in the disclaimer that no underage sex is or had been going on. I'll put the links up as soon as they're approved

Laurel rode you a little hard on this. I've never had to be specific about the age of my characters. I give clues as to their age and make sure they do things (like owning a car, having a credit card, a job, kids, or going to college) that are adult behaviors.

But you're new, so you get the discipline.

 

[Canchon]

Laurel rode you a little hard on this. I've never had to be specific about the age of my characters. I give clues as to their age and make sure they do things (like owning a car, having a credit card, a job, kids, or going to college) that are adult behaviors.

But you're new, so you get the discipline.

I actually have one divorcee with a son, job, and taking care of elderly mother and special needs sisters, female character has a job owns he own home, and they've been friends for over 20 years...

It felt like an ouch.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I actually have one divorcee with a son, job, and taking care of elderly mother and special needs sisters, female character has a job owns he own home, and they've been friends for over 20 years...

It felt like an ouch.

Laurel doesn't always read stories closely when moderating; she has to get through scores of them every day. If you mention the existence of (say) a 17-year-old in the story, it's possible to get bounced by accident, not because you were breaking the rules, just as a false positive. This seems to happen more often with new authors who haven't established themselves yet.

If your story features characters who are under 18 (but not involved in the sex) I'd recommend using the Notes field to mention this fact - "there's a 15-year-old mentioned in this but she's nowhere near the action". This will reduce your risks of getting bounced by mistake.

 

[gordo12]

If your story features characters who are under 18 (but not involved in the sex) I'd recommend using the Notes field to mention this fact - "there's a 15-year-old mentioned in this but she's nowhere near the action". This will reduce your risks of getting bounced by mistake.

I had two children starting a friendship @ 4 years of age in my last story. Of course nobody did the nasty until they were over 18. But I outlined that in the notes field and gave her the reference sentence and it went through without a hitch.

It's just making her job easier.

 

[BigMadStork]

My observation is it's taking longer to post. I used to get published in three days and the last few months it's longer, with my current at 5 days and holding. Does anyone have a feel for the effect of story length? If I knew a three page story posts faster than a 6 page, I could split up my stories more. I have never seen anything that talks about a suggested length for a story section.

Full disclosure, my stories parts are rarely 4 pages or less. I wonder if I am being passed over due to story length.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My observation is it's taking longer to post. I used to get published in three days and the last few months it's longer, with my current at 5 days and holding. Does anyone have a feel for the effect of story length? If I knew a three page story posts faster than a 6 page, I could split up my stories more. I have never seen anything that talks about a suggested length for a story section.

Full disclosure, my stories parts are rarely 4 pages or less. I wonder if I am being passed over due to story length.

My last long one was three days, a couple of weeks back. A super-short introduction went up in a day and a half, last week. It was slower a couple of months ago, but it seems to be back to normal.

Four pages? Leave it as it is, that's not long. The way I figure it, there's a queue of stories and I imagine Laurel processes them as she gets to them, length will make no difference. I also think she bundles some categories, so the release rate per category is fairly consistent over time.

 

[SimonDoom]

My observation is it's taking longer to post. I used to get published in three days and the last few months it's longer, with my current at 5 days and holding. Does anyone have a feel for the effect of story length? If I knew a three page story posts faster than a 6 page, I could split up my stories more. I have never seen anything that talks about a suggested length for a story section.

Full disclosure, my stories parts are rarely 4 pages or less. I wonder if I am being passed over due to story length.

Not likely. Be patient. Don't split up your story unless it breaks naturally and unless each new segment, and especially the first one, promises the payoff that readers of that category want. 6 pages is not long by Lit standards. Chaptered stories have very high attrition rates, so with multiple chapters the last chapter will have only a fraction of the readers of the first chapter. Just be patient and it will get published.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Chaptered stories have very high attrition rates, so with multiple chapters the last chapter will have only a fraction of the readers of the first chapter. Just be patient and it will get published.

Views ain't Reads!

Nobody has any way of knowing how many readers ever finish the first chapter or finish a stand-alone story. I contend it's only through your multi-part efforts that you can even remotely guess what readers might be doing. Every which way I look at it, it's the pareto principle - I reckon more will leave a story unfinished than read it all the way through.

 

[SimonDoom]

Views ain't Reads!

Nobody has any way of knowing how many readers ever finish the first chapter or finish a stand-alone story. I contend it's only through your multi-part efforts that you can even remotely guess what readers might be doing. Every which way I look at it, it's the pareto principle - I reckon more will leave a story unfinished than read it all the way through.

Views ain't reads, true, but view:vote ratios are surprisingly stable over the course of a chaptered series, and from that fact one can infer that there is a significant attrition rate in actual reads, not just views. In my stories the view: vote reads for the 1st chapter are higher than for subsequent chapters, but not that much higher. I think it is safe to say that with most chaptered series there is a significant drop off in the number of actual readers over time.

The analysis that 8Letters did a while back and submitted in a thread he started was pretty good evidence that, unless your story is VERY long (way over 10 Lit pages), you will have more readers read to the end by posting it as a single story than by posting it in chapters. Literotica has plenty of very long stories with high vote and favorite counts, which is strong evidence that many people actually do make it to the end of long stories.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The analysis that 8Letters did a while back and submitted in a thread he started was pretty good evidence that, unless your story is VERY long (way over 10 Lit pages), you will have more readers read to the end by posting it as a single story than by posting it in chapters.

That was an analysis based on Views. Nobody knows how many people complete a Read through - I don't, you don't, nobody knows how many get to the last page. The vote:view ratio is oddly consistent, I grant you, but using a 1% factor to claim an 80% read-through doesn't follow. I work on the basis that 20 - 25% of Views for a stand-alone or Chapter One are true Reads - that assessment based on my multi-part things and extrapolating nothing from not very much.

Even then, you get weird anomalies: the last part of my latest Madelyn story cycle has 30% more Views than the penultimate chapter, which was on trend to get the expected drop-off from the first part. And that was for five parts released quite close together. I have no explanation for that - unless 30% are reading it twice - which is something I reckon happens - you can see the ups and downs on a long enough story cycle.

 

[SimonDoom]

Does anyone have experience with average submission-to-publication time for poems versus stories? I submitted a poem (not a very long one) 6 days ago and it hasn't been published yet. I'm surprised because it's not long and there's nothing controversial in it. I'm not sure why approval of a poem would take much time.