Maybe someone more experienced knows...

[JPMMURPHY]

Hi all. Maybe someone with more experience posting knows the answer to this one.

I submitted a novel a couple of weeks ago - 11 parts - all on the same day... then they started being approved... on part a day... and all have dates to appear... all but the last part. The odd thing is - the PENDING thingie on the the right is blue... has a link. When I follow it I can see the story. I can see a few changes that were made to the hook line (like all the rest)... and it wants me to PREVIEW it... and I would guess submit again. It wasn't rejected. None of them were. And the story itself is just as I wrote it.

Do they want me to do something to it? I found no additional comments in the comment box. And it still has no date for publication.

Any suggestions?

Sincerely,

Confessed... oh, wait... Confused.

 

[cloudy]

Every time you click on that "pending" link, and open your story, it sends it to the back of the queue, as if you'd just submitted it.

The reason for that is that they have no way of knowing if you've made any changes to the story. If it had already been approved, and just waiting for the date to go up, they'd have to vet it again, just in case you slipped in some hedgehog sex or something.

If you're happy with it the way it is, just leave it pending. You don't have to do anything.

 

[JPMMURPHY]

Thanks Cloudy. Too bad. That means the ending to the story will now be late by several days.... YIKES! Oh well.




... hedghog sex... ummm... lets see... where can I slip that in....

 

[Darkniciad]

Every time you click on that "pending" link, and open your story, it sends it to the back of the queue, as if you'd just submitted it.

The reason for that is that they have no way of knowing if you've made any changes to the story. If it had already been approved, and just waiting for the date to go up, they'd have to vet it again, just in case you slipped in some hedgehog sex or something.

If you're happy with it the way it is, just leave it pending. You don't have to do anything.

I'd say it's probably keyed to the submit button, actually. Coding something to update the database just on a view doesn't make much sense, especially on a large site that likely tries to conserve processing power and bandwidth anywhere possible. Even if you make changes, if you don't hit the submit button, those changes aren't saved.

No way of knowing for sure, but it makes more sense from a coding standpoint that simply viewing won't change the database, and thus shouldn't change the position in the queue.

 

[JPMMURPHY]

I'd say it's probably keyed to the submit button, actually. Coding something to update the database just on a view doesn't make much sense, especially on a large site that likely tries to conserve processing power and bandwidth anywhere possible. Even if you make changes, if you don't hit the submit button, those changes aren't saved.

No way of knowing for sure, but it makes more sense from a coding standpoint that simply viewing won't change the database, and thus shouldn't change the position in the queue.

Damn! I figured it was shot to hell anyway... and done went and put that there hedgehog sex in it and hit submit. Lol. NOT.

Thanks. That does make sense. But then I have to wonder why there is no publish date yet.

 

[Darkniciad]

Damn! I figured it was shot to hell anyway... and done went and put that there hedgehog sex in it and hit submit. Lol. NOT.

Thanks. That does make sense. But then I have to wonder why there is no publish date yet.

Probably just sheer volume of submissions. Your series may have been the last thing looked at in the day, and the mod's eyes were just drooping too much to finish another review that day. If they'd found something objectionable, odds are it would say rejected, rather than just pending.

 

[starrkers]

Related question: to posting dates only appear on chapter stories? My submissions have only ever send "pending" until they post, but I've never written a series.

 

[Darkniciad]

Related question: to posting dates only appear on chapter stories? My submissions have only ever send "pending" until they post, but I've never written a series.

No, I've had dates appear on one-shot stories before. It appears to be more of a function of whether your story gets vetted early or late. When the date appears a couple of hours before the midnight transition where your story will post, then it's probably just you coming in early in the vetting process for the day.

When it appears a day or more ahead of time, I'd say that there's a vacation on the horizon on the day your story is dated. The dates could be used as a guideline for someone to fill in, simply posting stories already vetted, or could possibly be read by an automated script to post stories while the site editors are relaxing for an evening.