Editing

[dalton_rick]

Why does i take so long to submit a simple edit of a story? It has been several days!

 

[sr71plt]

Why does i take so long to submit a simple edit of a story? It has been several days!

An edit is a request for a redo on something you already had an opportunity to get the way you wanted the first time. The sole submissions editor has to review a hundred or more new submissions every day. She chooses to put requests for redos at the end of the line for when she has time to get to it, which is the fair thing to do for those not asking for a redo because they didn't do it better the first time. A lot of edits are just changing minutia anyway on copy that never is going to be perfect anyway. If you don't like to wait longer for an edit to post, do better on your original submission so that Laurel doesn't have to do your story twice or more.

 

[SilenceDances]

The sole submissions editor.

I have seen this mentioned a couple of times. Do you know why there is only one editor? How is she even human to be able to edit so much stuff every single day?

 

[sr71plt]

I have seen this mentioned a couple of times. Do you know why there is only one editor? How is she even human to be able to edit so much stuff every single day?

It's Laurel's choice. She owns the Web site. You could ask her directly why she's the only submissions editor. She's not editing the stuff. A submissions editor just selects it. And in her case, she's doing no more than scanning it--and as occasional complaints on the forum show, she's sometimes rejecting stories on the basis of what she thinks the story includes that it doesn't actually include.

 

[dalton_rick]

I am sorry. I had no idea there was only one submissions editor. I did significantly change the content based on user feedback.