Info on Posting Stories Requested

[Bi_in_LA]

Hey folks, I am new to posting stories here at Literotica. I submitted my first story several days ago and it is still pending.

Can anyone give me an idea how long stories remain pending before they are available for public viewing?

thanks in advance for any help.

-Chris

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Four and a half years, or until Pontiac changes their mind and stays in business long enough to release one last year of Firebirds with removable T-tops.

But seriously,

Hello, and welcome to the AH. Have you tried the Biscotti? Stories usually take 7 to 10 days to be approved, unless there is a contest going on. In which case it will take longer for a non-contest submission, or shorter if it is entered into the contest.

 

[oggbashan]

This is known as "The Question" and usually gets silly answers.

The real answer is that unless there is a themed contest running, and one has just finished, it takes several days for a new author, and slightly less for an author who has submitted stories before.

From an author's perspective, it always takes longer than you think is reasonable.

However, there is one thing NOT to do. When you look at the status of your pending story, DO NOT OPEN IT. If you do, the system assumes that you have changed it, and it goes back to the end of the queue - every time you open it.

Og

 

[starscape]

My first story took, I believe, five days until it posted. Keep in mind I worked with a Volunteer Editor so my copy was pretty clean. That may or may not make a difference with how quickly it is approved but I thought I'd mention it. Now that I have made more submissions it usually takes about 72 hours unless there is a contest or something like that.

oggbashan is correct; don't click on the blue "pending" on the View Submissions page. I learned the hard way I was only prolonging the wait by "just checking" my story. And as he said, that's a drag for the author, especially when it's your first story and you're eager to see how it is received.

 

[Bi_in_LA]

Thanks for the info folks. About the only issue I feel I might have with editing is paragraph length. I tried to keep them short, and may have chopped them a bit too much. I am also finding dialogue structure to be difficult as well. As much as I've read and written in my life, it's amazing how foreign it feels to structure conversation into a narrative.

 

[glynndah]

A welcome for the little newbie from the good little witch.

 

[sethp]

Welcome and good luck with your stories!

 

[Bi_in_LA]

A welcome for the little newbie from the good little witch.

Well thank you Glynndah. Elphaba sends her love.

Little newbie? It's been so long since I was a newbie at anything of import. I rather like it. Although 'little' would depend on your implementation of the word. I'm sure if you peeled back enough layers of my psyche you would find something little, but it's not obviously apparent.

*An Australian kiss on your cheek*

 

[TE999]

Well thank you Glynndah. Elphaba sends her love.

Little newbie? It's been so long since I was a newbie at anything of import. I rather like it. Although 'little' would depend on your implementation of the word. I'm sure if you peeled back enough layers of my psyche you would find something little, but it's not obviously apparent.

*An Australian kiss on your cheek*

Hmmm...I thot an Australian kiss was like a French kiss, only down under.

Welcome to the AH, Bi. Good luck with your writing. Dialogue takes some work at first, but it helps to say the characters words out loud as in a real conversation...it flows better when you write.

This is best done in privacy.

 

[sr71plt]

Mine have taken uniformly three day to post for years, except if they are contest entries and they they post the next day.

 

[Bi_in_LA]

Hmmm...I thot an Australian kiss was like a French kiss, only down under.

Indeed it is, and an Australian kiss on the cheek merely indicates my newbie willingness to kiss her ass.

 

[TE999]

Indeed it is, and an Australian kiss on the cheek merely indicates my newbie willingness to kiss her ass.

You're gonna fit in just fine around here. Welcome Bi.

 

[Darkniciad]

Mine have all been posting in 3 ( 4 at the outside ) days for regular, non-contest entries for quite a while as well.

...What little I've written recently, and nothing of late.

First timers always have a longer wait, so expect at least a week for the first story or two, as others have said.

I wouldn't worry too much about paragraphs being too short. The Lit format compresses the stories into a part of the page, so even a two or three line paragraph takes up a few lines on the Lit page. Too many lines is much more a problem on Lit than too few, for the purposes of keeping your eyes from getting lost in the text.

Dialogue ( especially punctuation ) could be a problem. There are probably more rejections for that than anything else. If it happens, ask for a second set of eyes to give it a look-see. You can look at something fifty times and see what's supposed to be there, as opposed to what is. Someone who's never read it before can see some things in an instant that are completely invisible to you.

 

[driphoney]

I'm new, posted a few chapters between January and, um, April I think, and none took longer than 3 days. All were like clockwork except one and it posted a few hours past the usual midnight EST posting of the others.

Sadly, (oh, so sadly) haven't written anything recently, so can't tell you that. They say that new posters might take longer, but it didn't seem to be the case with me.

Now, if I could just find some inspiration . . .

 

[Bi_in_LA]

Dialogue ( especially punctuation ) could be a problem. There are probably more rejections for that than anything else. If it happens, ask for a second set of eyes to give it a look-see. You can look at something fifty times and see what's supposed to be there, as opposed to what is. Someone who's never read it before can see some things in an instant that are completely invisible to you.

I've written blogs and published articles for years. I'm quite confident that I didn't massacre the English language in my story. To be completely honest, some of stories that are being posted as of today are train wrecks where grammar and spelling are concerned.

"She ripped of her close and reamed my 15 inches cock on her secret garden."

I have a trick for proof reading my stuff, I always print it and read it. I can stare my writing for hours on a MS Word and not see the mistakes, but as soon as I read the printed writing the mistakes jump right out at me. Kinda strange.

As an aside, is there a writer out there who actually knows where the hymen is located on a virgin? One of my pet peeves for sure.

"I inserted my unit in about three inches and then hit her virgin barrier."

Quite a feat considering the hymen surrounds the opening of the vagina. Here's drawing of a vagina with an intact hymen.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oCBl49giXrY/R85aNDdQm9I/AAAAAAAAAMA/RtrXGfflinE/s200/hymen_anatomy.gif

 

[Darkniciad]

*Laugh* They hymen thing is mentioned wherever erotic stories are found.

I use a slightly different method to catch errors. I change the font size/face of the story and read it again. Most of the stuff jumps out at me. Then I send it off to my editor. Finally, I read the entire story in preview before submitting, which gives me another font perspective.

We still miss stuff

Something as simple as a single comma/quote missing can sometimes trigger a rejection. I know, it's amazing when so many horrible spelling and grammar errors get through, but those little things in dialogue seem to stand out to the mods ( or likely, the program they use to quick scan for common errors before giving the story an actual read )

 

[slyc_willie]

Something as simple as a single comma/quote missing can sometimes trigger a rejection. I know, it's amazing when so many horrible spelling and grammar errors get through, but those little things in dialogue seem to stand out to the mods ( or likely, the program they use to quick scan for common errors before giving the story an actual read )

That's one of the main reasons why I only submit my stories in .doc format. Aside from the fact that I keep all my formatting (which sometimes backfires), I'm assured that someone actually reads my story (or at least scans through it with a human eye) before it's posted. I tend to believe that a lot of the atrocious grammar and dialogue in stories published to Lit were submitted by pasting into the text field. The bots are programmed to only find so much.

Regarding the original question, I've also had an average submit-to-post time of about three to four days ever since Manu made some changes several months ago.

 

[starscape]

As an aside, is there a writer out there who actually knows where the hymen is located on a virgin? One of my pet peeves for sure.

"I inserted my unit in about three inches and then hit her virgin barrier."

Quite a feat considering the hymen surrounds the opening of the vagina. Here's drawing of a vagina with an intact hymen.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oCBl49giXrY/R85aNDdQm9I/AAAAAAAAAMA/RtrXGfflinE/s200/hymen_anatomy.gif

I remember the first time I encountered this. I had just started coming to Lit and was reading this story that was actually pretty decent. Then the heroine, a young nun-in-training (at some kinky convent run by a dirty priest, naturally ), has an encounter with this dark, handsome stranger and he fucks her only a few inches deep so the priest won't discover she's not a virgin.

I was like, what the fuck?

And then the story goes on to have a scene where the priest gets suspicious so he examines her and, sticking his finger up her pussy, he discovers, to his relief, the barrier is still there. LOL

I hadn't read any online erotica prior to coming here so I had no idea that anyone thought the hymen was inside the vagina. What an education this place has been!

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

In eight years, the timeline hasn't change much. Outside of a contest (which has next day results) 3-5 days is what it takes, more commonly 3-4. Only rejections have taken longer, and that's only been in the last couple of years when there's been a question about specifying the age of a teen.

Editing? Weird Harold edited my second story, and helped a lot. Not so much with grammar, names, and spelling, but with the why and how of the story, and with some flaky dialogue. I'd suggest everyone try it at least a couple of times.

Personally, I like to write the story then put it aside and read it again several days later. Edit, cleanup, rinse and repeat a few times.

I still find mistakes in nearly every story I post (damn it!) especially with names. I tend to pattern many of my characters off of real people, and sometimes real events, and then change the names to protect the innocent/guilty. Every few stories I find a name in a story which definitely should NOT be in there.