A Simple Solution to Chapters

[KeithD]

True, you can ballpark it. All things being perfect, you could expect fourteen submissions being entered the same day to be posted one after another for fourteen days, but that isn't how things work in the real world that we know as Literotica. Weekend days throw a big variable into the mix, as do contests and other factors that take priority in the review and approval of submissions.

And again, you have to trust that the readers will read the author's note.

I don't submit fourteen chapters of a work in a day. I wait to post the next until the previous one has posted--to ensure nothing has gone wrong with the previous one or that the previous one hasn't been rejected. Under my various accounts I've been doing this for fifteen years with well over 1,000 entries, without problem. It's a matter of taking responsibility for your own posting and not leaving chaptered stories open and just rambling on.

I think that open-ended stories should have to have a disclaimer put up front that they haven't been finished before posting starts. I think this would save a whole lot of readers from investing their time and attention on something that's just going to ramble on until in grinds into nothingness. There are, I'm sure, some readers who like this "Days of Our Lives" approach. There are others just being taken for an unrealized unending ride.

So, I don't see the problems you're raising, because I don't do that.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I don't submit fourteen chapters of a work in a day. I wait to post the next until the previous one has posted--to ensure nothing has gone wrong with the previous one or that the previous one hasn't been rejected. Under my various accounts I've been doing this for fifteen years with well over 1,000 entries, without problem. It's a matter of taking responsibility for your own posting and not leaving chaptered stories open and just rambling on.

I think that open-ended stories should have to have a disclaimer put up front that they haven't been finished before posting starts. I think this would save a whole lot of readers from investing their time and attention on something that's just going to ramble on until in grinds into nothingness. There are, I'm sure, some readers who like this "Days of Our Lives" approach. There are others just being taken for an unrealized unending ride.

So, I don't see the problems you're raising, because I don't do that.

That's the wonderful thing about the diversity here; we can all learn from what others have experienced even if we have different genres that we focus on and different target audiences.

I have never experienced the issue of a story being rejected, so I don't consider that when I submit a story, or multiple parts of a story on the same day.

 

[KeithD]

Rejection of a chapter does happen, and invariably the writer comes to the discussion board for help in getting out of what has become a sticky situation--the pile up of material with something in the middle not being accepted.