If you are having a lengthy delay in publishing, please add the name of your story and when submitted here.

[Adam_Sephenson]

I've submitted my chapter, 3 times now, first time was with the in built story writer, second time I had to take it out and put in some edits I noticed -- resubmitted that as a word.docx. I've resubmitted it once more (there was a MASSIVE error I saw when reading chapter 2 to help with context for chapter 3) using a .txt file that somewhat seems to work whenever I send an entry (both inbuilt and .docx file were in pending for a week each) I'm hoping for a greenlight in the upcoming week or failing that, before new year.

 

[EmilyMiller]

A week is not unheard of, I guess the cut off for taking action is maybe two weeks.

 

[Adam_Sephenson]

A week is not unheard of, I guess the cut off for taking action is maybe two weeks.

yeah, the whole resubmitting was my own volition. the only time I've ever experienced a pending longer than a week was my first story (submitted in November, came out in late feb) so in a way, I'm thinking this would be the same deal. Has this always been the case, or was late 2024 and now later 2025 the "recent" thing that's come up?

 

[EmilyMiller]

yeah, the whole resubmitting was my own volition. the only time I've ever experienced a pending longer than a week was my first story (submitted in November, came out in late feb) so in a way, I'm thinking this would be the same deal. Has this always been the case, or was late 2024 and now later 2025 the "recent" thing that's come up?

As far as I can tell, the current problems date to late August this year. Some people have got stuck long before that, but it impacting a wider range of people - including established and comp-winning authors - is relatively new.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Sooo... five days pending... on Lush Stories.
What are the chances that it's Laurel who runs that site, too?

Meh, I'll give them a few more hours before I withdraw the submission. I really wanted to try that site out, but I'm not willing to undergo the Lit treatment for it. I suspect it's cause of the length of my story, maybe? It's 27k words, and I'm yet to see a story over 10k on Lush.

Bah, who cares what the reason is. God, I wish SOL had a better interface and visibility.

 

[TypoTales]

Sooo... five days pending... on Lush Stories.
What are the chances that it's Laurel who runs that site, too?

Meh, I'll give them a few more hours before I withdraw the submission. I really wanted to try that site out, but I'm not willing to undergo the Lit treatment for it. I suspect it's cause of the length of my story, maybe? It's 27k words, and I'm yet to see a story over 10k on Lush.

Bah, who cares what the reason is. God, I wish SOL had a better interface and visibility.

I'm pretty sure lush has a hard 10k words limit so you'll probably need to split it lol
Other than that it takes about a week to get a story through but there's a contest going on and also the holiday period so it might be slower. Longest it took me was ten days I think, so not as fast as Lit used to be when it was working, but your story always ends up in front of a human moderator on lush. Good luck

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I'm pretty sure lush has a hard 10k words limit so you'll probably need to split it lol
Other than that it takes about a week to get a story through but there's a contest going on and also the holiday period so it might be slower. Longest it took me was ten days I think, so not as fast as Lit used to be when it was working, but your story always ends up in front of a human moderator on lush. Good luck

Thanks for the info, much appreciated. I just wanted to try out Lush, but if it really takes that long for a story to go through, then I guess I can't see the upside of publishing on a site with far less traffic compared to Lit.