How long does it usually take for a submission to be aprooved?

[DreamWriterLIT]

I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this, but i couldn't see it posted anywhere else and didn't know quite where to ask it.

How long does it usually take for a submission to be aprooved and veiwable to the public after you submit it. I am a first time writer here who posted the first chapter of my first story on thursday night. I am not impatient, but just currious because i wanted to get some feedback on the chapter before i submited the second chapter so i can decide what direction to go with the story.

Any help that anyone could give me would be greatly apreciated.

 

[Tickle_me_plz]

I had the same question.

Apparently about 5 days, maybe up to 10. Also...I hope you followed all the grammar shit, because they're picky as hell. I'm too lazy to redo mine so Literotica wont' be blessed with my work any time soon.

 

[3113]

It's going to take at least 5 days for a submitted story to appear. I suggest that you get thoughts on which direction the story should go from other writers here in AH. We can give your story a read--or you can just summarize the quandry your in--and give you some thoughts if you're having doubts.

That's much better than hoping readers will help you out (they might or they might not, you never know) and leaving them hanging till you write up and submit Chapter 2.

I believe that, whenver possible, you should submit next chapters ASAP. That is, submit Chapter 2 almost immediately after Chapter 1, so that readers get the next chapter and aren't left hanging, waiting for the story to finish up.

 

[kendo1]

I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this, but i couldn't see it posted anywhere else and didn't know quite where to ask it.

How long does it usually take for a submission to be aprooved and veiwable to the public after you submit it. I am a first time writer here who posted the first chapter of my first story on thursday night. I am not impatient, but just currious because i wanted to get some feedback on the chapter before i submited the second chapter so i can decide what direction to go with the story.

Any help that anyone could give me would be greatly apreciated.

I'd suggest that you get someone to check over your spelling, grammar and the general flow of the piece. It's difficult to do this yourself, you are too involved- too close- to your work.
Ask away here and you'll soon get someone to help.

Ken

 

[Quiet_Cool]

If you're lucky, seven and a half years.



































Sorry, I meant unlucky. Lucky's pieces are usually up in five days or so...

Q_C

 

[joeys-game]

I had the same question.

Apparently about 5 days, maybe up to 10. Also...I hope you followed all the grammar shit, because they're picky as hell. I'm too lazy to redo mine so Literotica wont' be blessed with my work any time soon.

Thats a shame.

 

[Tickle_me_plz]

Thats a shame.

Ain't it?

It's sad these guys are so picky about paragraph formats.

 

[joeys-game]

Ain't it?

It's sad these guys are so picky about paragraph formats.

You could always ask one of the editors in the forum to look it over

 

[Tickle_me_plz]

You could always ask one of the editors in the forum to look it over

I could...

But when I submitted it, I just copy/pasted it into the box from Word. =( I didn't save it to my harddrive. The only copy of my work of art out there is in some Admins folder who couldn't care less about it.

 

[joeys-game]

I could...

But when I submitted it, I just copy/pasted it into the box from Word. =( I didn't save it to my harddrive. The only copy of my work of art out there is in some Admins folder who couldn't care less about it.

Send a pm to laurel, im sure she will send it back to you

 

[Oblimo]

My submission was over 20,000 words, so I expected approval to take a long time. It only took about a week, which is quite fast considering the number of stories posted each week where the approval process is an active one based on both form and content.

I'd suggest that you get someone to check over your spelling, grammar and the general flow of the piece. It's difficult to do this yourself, you are too involved- too close- to your work.

Agreed. IMO, the best way to get the distance required to edit your own work is also the most commonly recommended: time. Let the story lie unread and untouched for a few days before bringing out the red pen.

If you're pressed for time, a great trick for catching grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors is to read your manuscript backwards. That is, start at the last word and read up, right-to-left. It gives me a headache (so I often wimp out skip it), but it works.

 

[Tom Collins]

My submission was over 20,000 words, so I expected approval to take a long time. It only took about a week, which is quite fast considering the number of stories posted each week where the approval process is an active one based on both form and content.

Agreed. IMO, the best way to get the distance required to edit your own work is also the most commonly recommended: time. Let the story lie unread and untouched for a few days before bringing out the red pen.

If you're pressed for time, a great trick for catching grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors is to read your manuscript backwards. That is, start at the last word and read up, right-to-left. It gives me a headache (so I often wimp out skip it), but it works.

Dude...are you for real? How does that work? Seriously, I'd like to know cuz I'm always on the look out for anything that will make my stories better.

 

[Oblimo]

Dude...are you for real?

For certain definitions of reality.

How does that work? Seriously, I'd like to know cuz I'm always on the look out for anything that will make my stories better.

It was first recommended to me by an editor working for Harper Collins at the time, although apparently it's an age-old trick. It creates instant distance and forces individual words to stick out in your mind, stripped of the meaning you gave them. It helps me to imagine Yoda saying each word as I read them backwards.

It doesn't do squat if you want to edit for tone, but it's a darn good proofreading tool.

Another trick that's as old as the word processor: run a Find or Search for the homonym errors that affect you the most, such as it's/its, your/you're, affect/effect, too/to, etc. The most embarrassing homonym error in erotica has got to be bear/bare. I mean, who wants to hear someone say "I can't bare it!" in a porn story?

It's a true pain in the ass, though, and I must confess to infrequent practice of what I am preaching unless I'm getting paid to do it (which occurs even more infrequently, alas).

 

[Tom Collins]

For certain definitions of reality.

It was first recommended to me by an editor working for Harper Collins at the time, although apparently it's an age-old trick. It creates instant distance and forces individual words to stick out in your mind, stripped of the meaning you gave them. It helps me to imagine Yoda saying each word as I read them backwards.

It doesn't do squat if you want to edit for tone, but it's a darn good proofreading tool.

Another trick that's as old as the word processor: run a Find or Search for the homonym errors that affect you the most, such as it's/its, your/you're, affect/effect, too/to, etc. The most embarrassing homonym error in erotica has got to be bear/bare. I mean, who wants to hear someone say "I can't bare it!" in a porn story?

It's a true pain in the ass, though, and I must confess to infrequent practice of what I am preaching unless I'm getting paid to do it (which occurs even more infrequently, alas).

Thanks for the info, Ob. I'll give it a whirl and see if it works for me.

 

[Softouch911]

I've used the "trick" of reading backwards for years and it's slick as snot for finding stuff you miss when reading normally and getting wrapped up in your own wisdom ....

But I've never heard of reading from right to left to do it ... the way I was taught by an editor was to read it a sentence at a time, from the end to the beginning.

That way, you pull the sentence out of context and it forces you to hear the grammar rather than the flow of il/logic.

In my case, it also forces me to recognize the fact that I often write sentences that are waaaayyyyy too long.

It's a good trick.

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