It's a default field length for us writers, but the site can extend the field length at its discretion. I guess they wanted to set general limits, way back when.
Truncate the existing titles so that EDIT fits at the end of the title field, which is 35 characters long on the submission page. Include the full title in the Notes to the Editor.
Thanks, I'll give that a try. When I started up last year, I was a writing virgin, self editing. The first couple edits were not pretty. Now I have an editor friend helping out. I could leave the stories be, but I'm working through Book 2 which means new readers will be going through Book 1 and I'd rather have them stick around past the ugliness of my first writings.
For what it's worth, the one time I submitted an edit due to a major formatting screwup on my part, it took 23 days for the edit to be accepted. It sounds like 3-5 weeks for edits is the normal expectation.
If you're submitting 15 edits, I wouldn't be surprised if the mods only deal with one at a time, so it's very possible you'll be waiting about a year before every edit is accepted
If you delete your story then you loose all scores, views, and comments - they will not transfer to the new version. There's also the possibility that Laurel sees your delete and repost as a way to game the system and have your story show up as new and reject it.
I suggest you don't do that. You're placing an additional administrative burden on the site to do this, that and the other, for something you have complete control over. If you had submitted the best possible copy in the first place, none of this would be an issue.
It won't take a year, but asking the site to expedite fifteen go-arounds is a bit of an ask. Wait in line, along with everyone else doing edits. Get them in the queue, and go off and write another story. That way, the edits will get done when they get done, and you'll have another story.
