Long wait time for your story to get published? Read this.

[dasgoodshit]

Every submission to Literotica remains visible to Laurel.

Even if you delete a story then resubmit with a different but similar name, she still sees the original. I don't know why, but she does.

For whatever reason, timestamps must not be available to indicate what the most recent version is, and the titles of all submissions are sorted by name. She then manually reviews similarly titled stories and apparently has to do some digging to figure out which version is the one that you want published. You should cringe if you've ever deleted or resubmitted a story. I do, and will continue to do so, until I have a few dozen more stories under my belt with no deletions/resubmissions.

No admin or mod told me this... I just kinda figured it out.

FWIW.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Resubmitting edited works is fine, I think, provided the title clearly includes the word EDIT, as in "Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill - EDIT'.

 

[Djmac1031]

I try not to do too many resubmissions. I'm not going to drive her crazy because I can't live with a few typos.

I did re-edit and submit one story because I was writing a sequel and needed to make a few things fit better.

And just submitted another re-edit this morning for the same reason.

I realize resubmitted stories take longer and are low priority and I'm okay with that.

Gives me time to finish the prequel I'm working on.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I deleted a story early this year from last year's Halloween contest. Why, you ask? Good question, glad you asked. Because the publisher put it on Amazon in KDP Select and I kind-a-had to. Now it's off select and I've put back in the cue to republish. It's been days (four) and that is longer than usual. I did tell her it was a re-submission and explained it was an updated version of a previously removed story. But no indication when it will go up yet. Since it is now part one of a three-part series (that is series not chapters in a story). I'd like it to be up before I sub the other two stories. I'm putting both the new ones in the Halloween contest.

Just hoping it goes back up soonish. What a word soonish is, it's so nonspecific.

 

[Altissimus]

Yeah. I hit 'publish' on a story and then pulled it for changes. I'm being punished now; a week in the queue.

 

[MillieDynamite]

My story goes live tomorrow for the Crime and Punishment Event. So it wasn't a very long wait at all. I had to trim a few things out of it not to run a foul of a rule.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

My story goes live tomorrow for the Crime and Punishment Event. So it wasn't a very long wait at all. I had to trim a few things out of it not to run a foul of a rule.

Well, that's not fair. I put mine up before you.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Okay, it's not fair here, Mary, have a glass of whine.

Well, that's not fair. I put mine up before you.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I try not to do too many resubmissions. I'm not going to drive her crazy because I can't live with a few typos.

I did re-edit and submit one story because I was writing a sequel and needed to make a few things fit better.

And just submitted another re-edit this morning for the same reason.

I realize resubmitted stories take longer and are low priority and I'm okay with that.

Gives me time to finish the prequel I'm working on.

That's wise not to worry about a couple of typos. I have an unprecedented two edited stories in the pending queue for more substantial changes. I finally gave Laurel a gentle inquiry because one has been in there for two weeks and the other for more than a month.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yeah. I hit 'publish' on a story and then pulled it for changes. I'm being punished now; a week in the queue.

Rightfully so. There's an obligation on us authors to submit the best possible copy, and to live with minor fuck ups where we got it wrong. Edit twice, submit once.

Unless something goes badly wrong, usually with html that I got wrong, I'll leave typos and minor errors as they are. I've received one or two comments about typos, but I don't bother fixing trivial goofs. I cut other writers slack on that, if the story's good enough, and I expect the same. But I rarely use html, these days, it's almost a guarantee to go wrong.

 

[dasgoodshit]

I try not to do too many resubmissions. I'm not going to drive her crazy because I can't live with a few typos.

I've only RE-submitted one story after publishing, due to a horrible typo at the worst possible moment. It wasn't noticeable in Word because it was a single character on what was supposed to be a blank line, but it somehow added two carriage returns. Since then, I've taken to Select All, change the spacing, and re-reading once more before submitting.

 

[AchtungNight]

I haven’t bothered to resubmit here thus far when rejected. Laurel’s reasoning has been painfully understandable every time and the most important stories have gone through. I have AO3 and other places for the stuff I must put out that gets rejected here.

 

[Altissimus]

Rightfully so. There's an obligation on us authors to submit the best possible copy, and to live with minor fuck ups where we got it wrong. Edit twice, submit once.

For the avoidance of doubt it hadn't been published when I pulled it, it was still pending. I didn't 'delete' something that was already there.

But I do get the impression that pulling a pending submission does screw with Laurel's queue. Anyway, I'm vewwy, vewwy, sowwy, and if there's a chance it could go live before Christmas I pwomise to be dood in future.

 

[ElectricBlue]

But I do get the impression that pulling a pending submission does screw with Laurel's queue. Anyway, I'm vewwy, vewwy, sowwy, and if there's a chance it could go live before Christmas I pwomise to be dood in future.

Just bumps you to the back of it, and you have to shuffle to the front of the line all over again. I get the impression that lots of people pull a story back to Draft, and don't go through the whole submission process again.

Edits of an already published story are typically one to two weeks, even if your new stories go through quickly.

 

[Altissimus]

Just bumps you to the back of it, and you have to shuffle to the front of the line all over again. I get the impression that lots of people pull a story back to Draft, and don't go through the whole submission process again.

Yeah, in theory... but my last two went through in 48 hours and this one has been 168 hours and counting... Though I suppose there's also challenges going on at present.

Edits of an already published story are typically one to two weeks, even if your new stories go through quickly.

I know; I don't worry about when they go live. Just put them out there and forget about it, they'll be done eventually. Nature of the beast.

 

[K155]

My story goes live tomorrow for the Crime and Punishment Event. So it wasn't a very long wait at all. I had to trim a few things out of it not to run a foul of a rule.

What's the crime and punishment event?

 

[Altissimus]

What's the crime and punishment event?

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/author-organized-challenge-list-2023-updated-july-23rd.1496456/

 

[MillieDynamite]

Thanks @Altissimus most kind of you to give the explanation.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/author-organized-challenge-list-2023-updated-july-23rd.1496456/

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I always make sure mine are sorted before submission. The only editing I do after that is to fix why ever it gets rejected. Nothing I put here would ever be used for monetary goals, or else it wouldn't be here- the only exception would be something written for that, that was altered in some way, such as shortened or something, like this one story I was writing and put on the back burner.

 

[nortythorts]

Hi, am not sure whether I should join this thread or start a new one. What is the average timescale at the moment from submission of a story to its publication? I successfully submitted my latest one on 2nd September but it still hasn't appeared.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Two Days for me.

 

[nortythorts]

Thanks Millie, I didn't want to jump the gun. I have taken it out of pending and resubmitted. Thanks again

 

[MillieDynamite]

The amount of time depends on how you have posted before. If it is your first story, it may take over a week.

 

[alohadave]

Thanks Millie, I didn't want to jump the gun. I have taken it out of pending and resubmitted. Thanks again

FYI, doing that drops your story to the bottom of the queue.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Hi, am not sure whether I should join this thread or start a new one. What is the average timescale at the moment from submission of a story to its publication? I successfully submitted my latest one on 2nd September but it still hasn't appeared.

Please don't start a new one. If this one is of no help, there's 2555357 threads you can find on the same topic.

Millies kinda right, but there's other factors, it's not so much you being new, it's more somebody being a "known name" and/or needing little to no sendbacks. Although there might be a bit of scrutiny with a new writer. One being you resubmitted it... shits just gonna take longer now- there's no reason to do that unless you really want to edit the story. Submissions are done by Laurel and Laurel alone and they're recieved in the order submitted. There was also a contest going on when you submitted and those generally get priority to some degree. IMO if it takes more than a week, then send her a PM about it, so give it a few days, explain to her the situation and she might get to it in a day or two. I've never messaged her, so I don't know how all that goes down. Also remember she probably gets hundreds, if not thousands of submissions- there's like two million members and even if most of them are just readers, that still leaves a hundred thousand or so writers.