Help please

[Bramblethorn]

Longest I've seen was over 80 Lit pages - something by Lien Geller. It was published commercially, so might have been taken down.

His "Missing Dragon" is still up, at least to chapter 5. That chapter alone is 60 Literotica pages; I didn't check the others but I wouldn't be surprised if one of them made it to 80.

 

[VeryRNteresting]

I agree. Contact Laurel. Something is definitely amiss. I submitted a story on 8/27. Laurel rejected it on 8/28. I ran it through a spellchecker and resubmitted it the same day, and on the very next day it was accepted and published. If she could process my story,twice, that fast then she definitely should have dealt with your story by now.

Somehow, it seems, your story has fallen between the cracks.

Are you a first time author or have you posted other stories? Still no luck with my story. I'm about to just give up and I'm thinking it's impossible to get posted at this point

 

[mynameisben]

Are you a first time author or have you posted other stories? Still no luck with my story. I'm about to just give up and I'm thinking it's impossible to get posted at this point

I've posted other stories. There's a link to them in my signature line.

Have you contacted Laurel and detailed your problem to her? I've found that she's very responsive and incredibly easy to deal with. If you have contacted her then I really can't understand the problems you are having. All I can suggest is to try PM'ing her again.

Nothing is impossible. Don't give up!

 

[VeryRNteresting]

Thank you for your responses and encouragement RubenR and mynameisben. I did send her a PM last week but nothing had changed. No response no change on story submission. I'm really not sure what's going on.

 

[mynameisben]

Are you logging in here: https://literotica.com/stories/login.php ?

After logging in, click on the "My Stories" icon. It's the second one down on the menu of icons on the left side of the screen (looks like a paper airplane). That will take you to a list of the stories you have published, along with status information on stories you have submitted but have not yet been published.

Check the status of your story in the "Published Stories" section. You should see the following status:

Drafts    Pending   Sent Back
   0         1          0

If you see the above status, that means your story has been successfully submitted, is still pending, and has not already been evaluated and rejected. If this is your status, all you can do is be patient; the story is in the queue and will be processed eventually. If it's an especially long story it will take longer to be approved than most other stories.

If there is a "1" in the Drafts column, that means you never actually successfully submitted your story and it would explain why you never heard back from Laurel.

If there is a "1" in the Sent Back column, that means your story was evaluated and rejected. A rejected story will appear in your Drafts section with a message attached from Laurel explaining why the story was rejected. After making the proscribed corrections you can submit the story again.

What does your status say?

 

[VeryRNteresting]

Are you logging in here: https://literotica.com/stories/login.php ?

After logging in, click on the "My Stories" icon. It's the second one down on the menu of icons on the left side of the screen (looks like a paper airplane). That will take you to a list of the stories you have published, along with status information on stories you have submitted but have not yet been published.

Check the status of your story in the "Published Stories" section. You should see the following status:

Drafts    Pending   Sent Back
   0         1          0

If you see the above status, that means your story has been successfully submitted, is still pending, and has not already been evaluated and rejected. If this is your status, all you can do is be patient; the story is in the queue and will be processed eventually. If it's an especially long story it will take longer to be approved than most other stories.

If there is a "1" in the Drafts column, that means you never actually successfully submitted your story and it would explain why you never heard back from Laurel.

If there is a "1" in the Sent Back column, that means your story was evaluated and rejected. A rejected story will appear in your Drafts section with a message attached from Laurel explaining why the story was rejected. After making the proscribed corrections you can submit the story again.

What does your status say?

I checked again to make sure and it does say pending. Nothing is in the drafts or rejected stories column. So I've got 1 pending and 0 for drafts and 0 for sent back. Maybe it take a few months for new authors now, or maybe they aren't interested in any new authors with new stories, or maybe they're just ignoring me and don't want to reject it because that would mean I could just edit it and resubmit. I know that sounds silly that I'm taking it personally, but that's how I feel at this point.
It's not a bad story, honestly, it's well written and I read and reread and reread probably hundreds of times, I've edited it probably also hundreds of times to catch the little errors I overlooked. Grammarly helped me out. My friend read it and loved it and she didn't expect much from it either. I've gotten feedback from other random people on the internet who don't know me and I don't them and they love it.

 

[JPGmvny]

One thing about multiple-part stories, I recently posted one in short chapters and when they were up for a while, I put them all together for ease to the readers. I was told that I had to decide whether to keep the old ones up OR put up the new one. I could not do both. So I chose the latter, which was published shortly after the others were taken down.

It was published as New and now has a score well above that of any of the parts. That was a short piece. My other multi-parters have logical breaks between parts.

My Stories

 

[ElectricBlue]

I checked again to make sure and it does say pending. Nothing is in the drafts or rejected stories column. So I've got 1 pending and 0 for drafts and 0 for sent back. Maybe it take a few months for new authors now, or maybe they aren't interested in any new authors with new stories, or maybe they're just ignoring me and don't want to reject it because that would mean I could just edit it and resubmit. I know that sounds silly that I'm taking it personally, but that's how I feel at this point.
It's not a bad story, honestly, it's well written and I read and reread and reread probably hundreds of times, I've edited it probably also hundreds of times to catch the little errors I overlooked. Grammarly helped me out. My friend read it and loved it and she didn't expect much from it either. I've gotten feedback from other random people on the internet who don't know me and I don't them and they love it.

Or, it's just fallen through the cracks. Laurel doesn't have a team of minions working through stories, she's it.

You're over-reacting and personalising something that doesn't warrant it.

Try (as suggested several times) sending a polite PM to Laurel that says, "Hi Laurel, I submitted my story title title title x days ago, and was just wondering if it's fallen through a crack? Thanks, VeryRNteresting."

 

[VeryRNteresting9]

Oh wow that's interesting! I really haven't seen many stories that were not separated into chapter links. I submitted the story as a whole and it's 54,000 words but I was thinking it might be better to submit each chapter separately. I guess there's pros and cons to both. My thing, I guess you could say, is noncon and I haven't seen hardly any stories that weren't broken up into chapters. My story is complete so I guess there's no reason to post separate chapters but I would like to know how many reads it gets.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Oh wow that's interesting! I really haven't seen many stories that were not separated into chapter links. I submitted the story as a whole and it's 54,000 words but I was thinking it might be better to submit each chapter separately. I guess there's pros and cons to both. My thing, I guess you could say, is noncon and I haven't seen hardly any stories that weren't broken up into chapters. My story is complete so I guess there's no reason to post separate chapters but I would like to know how many reads it gets.

That's the downside of publishing a single story - you have no idea how many readers actually finish it. There have been a number of estimates as to the drop-off rate for single stories, by extrapolating from multiple chapter pieces. I work on the basis that maybe 20- 25% of Views will read to the end of anything new.

 

[VeryRNteresting9]

Or, it's just fallen through the cracks. Laurel doesn't have a team of minions working through stories, she's it.

You're over-reacting and personalising something that doesn't warrant it.

Try (as suggested several times) sending a polite PM to Laurel that says, "Hi Laurel, I submitted my story title title title x days ago, and was just wondering if it's fallen through a crack? Thanks, VeryRNteresting."

Yes I know I'm overreacting. I knew someone would say that. I'm was fully prepared to take the heat for saying that. I do that a lot and I'm always finding something about something to rationalize why it could be personal. It's frustrating but it's what I do and it's what I've always done. It goes hand in hand with my depression, my low self esteem, I take psych meds, blah blah blah, idk how to change it, I hate it, my brain is wired all fucked up. Sob story.

So Laurel looks through all those submissions by herself? That's very impressive. So Manu doesn't? I was honestly under the impression that there were assigned and trusted moderators to help out. I took the "your story is waiting for approval by a moderator" very literally, as in there are other site moderators that assist the creators.

I did send a PM. I like your message example though. I'm going to use that when I send another. I will wait a few more days. I became very concerned when y'all said that 2 weeks was unusual, well now it's nearing 3. But if only one person is going through all the submissions plus all the various contest submissions then I would expect it to take months. Although my very first submission only took 2 days to get rejected and now there is nothing, just pending.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Laurel scans stories for content and grammar etc. and probably runs them through a key-word spotter, to pick up the content issues, but it would be impossible to read every one.

Manu is the number one tech guy, and occasionally pops up in the tech forum.

It's the US summer - it always slows down this time of year. Also, a contest has just run - they always take priority for story loads.

Patience, grasshopper. All will come good in the end .

 

[Inkhorn]

I did send a PM. I like your message example though. I'm going to use that when I send another. I will wait a few more days. I became very concerned when y'all said that 2 weeks was unusual, well now it's nearing 3. But if only one person is going through all the submissions plus all the various contest submissions then I would expect it to take months. Although my very first submission only took 2 days to get rejected and now there is nothing, just pending.

Like you, I’m pretty new. My first submission was rejected in about 3 days, and the resubmission wasn’t published until a little under a week after.

I don’t think it would take a month since people would get impatient and eventually stop trying. But I would wager that it could take a week or two at the outside during busier times. Not to mention that the folks who run this place probably have their own RL issues to deal with.

Anyway, you want a great way to pass the time? Start another story! I got drafts for three others started while I was waiting for my first approval! (By the way, always back your stories and drafts up offsite.)