Now time to wait

[storyteller19]

I just submitted a new story a couple of days ago and am still waiting for it to be posted. I have submitted before so know that this happens, I just can’t wait for it to finally be posted.

What do you do to fill the time so that you are not constantly checking your page to see if a story is finally up?
I’m already working on another story but don’t feel like I can fully focus on it until the previous story goes live.

 

[KeithD]

Most of the works I've just submitted were written at least a year ago and I've written a bunch of stories since then and am writing one now rather than worrying about when the last one I submitted will post. A work of mine posted yesterday, one was submitted today (the ones posting now at Lit. are chapters from a book that was published in 2014), and today I wrote a story for an anthology that probably won't publish until October or be submitted to Lit. until next April.

Stories aren't babies needing daily baths once you get into a rhythm of writing them.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Start writing the next story .

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Start writing the next story .

This.

Good luck with the story.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I just submitted a new story a couple of days ago and am still waiting for it to be posted. I have submitted before so know that this happens, I just can’t wait for it to finally be posted.

What do you do to fill the time so that you are not constantly checking your page to see if a story is finally up?
I’m already working on another story but don’t feel like I can fully focus on it until the previous story goes live.

Early on in my "writing career", I would fill the time by obsessively checking, over and over again, to see if it had been posted.

Now, as others have said, I just get going on the next one.

 

[Lascivity]

I tend to always be working on a few things at once, so while I'm waiting for one thing to be published I have plenty of other things to focus on. Think I'd go mad if I waited until something was published before beginning my next project.

 

[lovecraft68]

What is the average these days? I haven't posted a non contest story in over a year.

 

[gordo12]

What do you do to fill the time so that you are not constantly checking your page to see if a story is finally up?

Well, I try not to obsess.
Click!
There are other things I should be doing!
Click!
I should get some groceries!
Click!
I need to plan dinner.
Click!
The dog needs a walk.
Click!
WAHOOOOOOO!

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

Only check once a day. The pending story page will show a posting date 24 hours before it posts. For example, I have a story on my pending page with the NEW icon with a posting date of tomorrow. It will go live about 2 am eastern on the 30th.

It can take anywhere from 24 hours to a week before a story post depending on the number of stories being submitted.

 

[ElectricBlue]

What is the average these days? I haven't posted a non contest story in over a year.

My last = two days, and Laurel did a title change in four.

 

[litfan10]

I just submitted a new story a couple of days ago and am still waiting for it to be posted. I have submitted before so know that this happens, I just can’t wait for it to finally be posted.

What do you do to fill the time so that you are not constantly checking your page to see if a story is finally up?
I’m already working on another story but don’t feel like I can fully focus on it until the previous story goes live.

Congrats on a new story.

What to do? Write, write, write.

If you can't fully focus then that's the wrong story for you to be working on.

I remember when I first decided to write here I wrote a story for the Nude Day contest. When I was fully happy with it I still had a while to go before the contest opened, so I decided to write a little knock off story to bide my time.

That little story turned into over forty chapters and my most popular work here.

Who knew?

Again, happy writing and good luck with your new work.

 

[KeithD]

My last = two days, and Laurel did a title change in four.

It's been pretty much a uniform two-day delay for me for years and years.

 

[gordo12]

Only check once a day. The pending story page will show a posting date 24 hours before it posts.

I've had a couple go live with no warning at all. Sitting in pending and go straight to new.

 

[Damoiselle]

I'm still very much in the obsessive phase. I've barely posted a handful of stories over the years and every single time, I refresh the website about two dozen times a day until it's approved.

Then, I do the same thing while fretting over the score for a few days.

If I were wise, I'd get started on the next story. But I'm not wise, I'm a needy mess more desperate for encouragement than I am to actually do the thing I've been theoretically dreaming of doing with my life since I was twelve. Writing.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

I'm still very much in the obsessive phase. I've barely posted a handful of stories over the years and every single time, I refresh the website about two dozen times a day until it's approved.

Then, I do the same thing while fretting over the score for a few days.

If I were wise, I'd get started on the next story. But I'm not wise, I'm a needy mess more desperate for encouragement than I am to actually do the thing I've been theoretically dreaming of doing with my life since I was twelve. Writing.

I admit I do the same thing, and my first story, under a now-defunct alt, was posted in 2009.

But I don't do it to see when the story will post. I do it to procrastinate and avoid editing or writing...I'm a bad boy...:caning:

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

I'm still very much in the obsessive phase. I've barely posted a handful of stories over the years and every single time, I refresh the website about two dozen times a day until it's approved.

Then, I do the same thing while fretting over the score for a few days.

If I were wise, I'd get started on the next story. But I'm not wise, I'm a needy mess more desperate for encouragement than I am to actually do the thing I've been theoretically dreaming of doing with my life since I was twelve. Writing.

“Needy mess...desperate for encouragement” strikes me as a workable definition for “writer.”

 

[Damoiselle]

I feel personally attacked by how relatable this is.

Thrilled to provide complicated identification.

“Needy mess...desperate for encouragement” strikes me as a workable definition for “writer.”

I mean, maybe it's a good definitions for the makings of a writer. But unless I actually *write*...

Sorry, I need a little self-flagellation now and then.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

“Needy mess...desperate for encouragement” strikes me as a workable definition for “writer.”

Oh, yes. So very, very Yes.

 

[storyteller19]

Only check once a day. The pending story page will show a posting date 24 hours before it posts. For example, I have a story on my pending page with the NEW icon with a posting date of tomorrow. It will go live about 2 am eastern on the 30th.

It can take anywhere from 24 hours to a week before a story post depending on the number of stories being submitted.

I thought it was something like this so I was able to stop checking as much. It didn’t show a posting date but did go live in the middle of the 4th day.

 

[ElectricBlue]

“Needy mess...desperate for encouragement” strikes me as a workable definition for “writer.”

I've gotta say I laughed when I saw that sentence. We're all needy, we just express it in different ways .

 

[gordo12]

“Needy mess...desperate for encouragement” strikes me as a workable definition for “writer.”

That one went straight into my good lines file

 

[GroverLang]

Title change.

My last = two days, and Laurel did a title change in four.

Have I understood you correctly? You asked for the title of a story already published to be changed and it happened? What about the readership, stars, comments etc?

Was it just a minor amendment to the title or something more substantial? Was it a complete change? I’m interested because I have a published story “Adam” and I’d like to change the title to “Adam and Evelyn.”

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

If you follow the procedure to edit a story nothing changes EXCEPT what you want changed.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Have I understood you correctly? You asked for the title of a story already published to be changed and it happened? What about the readership, stars, comments etc?

Was it just a minor amendment to the title or something more substantial? Was it a complete change? I’m interested because I have a published story “Adam” and I’d like to change the title to “Adam and Evelyn.”

It was a chapter story with "- After Covid-19" as the second part of the title. That cocked up the auto-sequencing software and put the chapter (more a new Part, really) out of order. So I asked Laurel to change it to "- Ch.07" which corrected the sequencing glitch and left everything else in place.

Mine was a technical reason to justify the change, but you could always try. I'm guessing if all the data links are in place it's just a matter of changing the story file name in the back end, but I don't know for sure.

 

[GroverLang]

It was a chapter story with "- After Covid-19" as the second part of the title. That cocked up the auto-sequencing software and put the chapter (more a new Part, really) out of order. So I asked Laurel to change it to "- Ch.07" which corrected the sequencing glitch and left everything else in place.

Mine was a technical reason to justify the change, but you could always try. I'm guessing if all the data links are in place it's just a matter of changing the story file name in the back end, but I don't know for sure.

Thanks for the explanation. I’ve done the usual edits for picking up typo’s, changing text, altering the introduction, changing the tags and even, on one occasion, asking for the category to be changed which Laurel did and none of those affected the ratings or comments. So I understand how submitting an edit works.

I’ll send in a request, as an edit, asking for the title to be changed. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The worst that can happen is the story stays as it is.

I’ll