Longest gap between submissions

[lovinanalandy]

OK, so I’m sort of a numbers guy. I have a thing for obscure stats, and this certainly qualifies as obscure: My 5th Lit piece posted in August 2005, and I FINALLY had another one published this week.

I’m guessing that fourteen and a half years separating stories may well be the Literotica record for longest gap between submissions. Alert the Guinness people!

Anyone out there with a similar story?

 

[LexxRuthless]

First, let me say Welcome back!

Something I had noticed as a trend over the years before I finally started writing and submitting my own stuff was that there were an awful lot of authors who wrote for a year and a half or so and then quit. Lately I have seen a bunch of those "old hands" returning to resume writing after a long hiatus.

Since the site has only been around a little over 20 years, I believe your record is secure.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I love it - welcome back. In 2005 I was barely in double digits myself. Lol

 

[oggbashan]

My most embarrassing gap is between chapters two and three of Chistmas Fairy - August 2004 to August 2017.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Yay! Now I have another one on my gotta-read list.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've been lurking and reading here since around 2005 (writing since 2016) so I know there have been some authors who have taken long breaks, but I can't think of any longer than that off the top of my head.

Congratulations on your return.

 

[GuessImJamie]

Welcome back,

This is sly, a nice try to appeal to my competitive nature. But it won't work. I will not wait until September of 2034 to bombard you with my latest creation.

In fact if I write enough dreck, all of you will read one of them, if only by accident!

EH, HA, HA, HA! (Evil mad-scientist laugh)

 

[lovinanalandy]

First of all, thanks for the welcome backs! I love that Lit fosters a supportive community. At least sometimes.

First, let me say Welcome back!

Since the site has only been around a little over 20 years, I believe your record is secure.

Yeah, that’s sort of what I thought. Inauspicious as it may be. What it really does is highlight my inefficiency and basic laziness.

I love it - welcome back. In 2005 I was barely in double digits myself. Lol

Yikes! That’s some sobering perspective! I wasn’t barely double digits in 2005, I just acted that way…which hasn’t changed.

I will add that you’re the one with a story description name-checking a 40-year-old tune. (Never mind that my latest submission is packed with song references from the ‘80s and early ‘90s…)

Yay! Now I have another one on my gotta-read list.

That's awesome to hear, and I'd appreciate it! Though I’ll admit to being intimidated by all of those red Hs on your page…

Welcome back,

This is sly, a nice try to appeal to my competitive nature. But it won't work. I will not wait until September of 2034 to bombard you with my latest creation.

EH, HA, HA, HA! (Evil mad-scientist laugh)

OMG, we’re closer to 2034 than 2005. Please see my comment above about sobering perspective. Let's just hope the world makes it. Um, sorry to end on a down note.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I think mine was roughly about six years.

 

[KeithD]

I think I may have a gap of as much as ten days between submissions over fourteen years of submitting--but I think that's because I was in a ship on the sea without a wifi connection.

 

[lovinanalandy]

I can’t comprehend how prolific many Lit authors are, including some in this thread. I mean, it can take me days to write a damn paragraph.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I can’t comprehend how prolific many Lit authors are, including some in this thread. I mean, it can take me days to write a damn paragraph.

Sometimes it's life. It's mostly life. For a while my life was hectic and I was seriously depressed, one thing after another. If left alone long enough I could do some writing as long as my attention span allowed.

 

[yukonnights]

I just checked; 07/30/2009 to 04/11/2017 (almost 8 years w/o a published story).

It seemed longer, but I was doing a lot of traveling during that time. I've only published 29 works (which includes 14 chapters in 3 stories) — so really I only have 18 published stories. Not too impressive considering a join date of 2007 and about 14 years of that somewhat active.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I just checked; 07/30/2009 to 04/11/2017 (almost 8 years w/o a published story).

It seemed longer, but I was doing a lot of traveling during that time. I've only published 29 works (which includes 14 chapters in 3 stories) — so really I only have 18 published stories. Not too impressive considering a join date of 2007 and about 14 years of that somewhat active.

Excuses, excuses, Yukon. Get on with it, man .