Story Stuck in Pending

[DanDraper]

Looking for some advice on a story I've been trying to submit more than a few times now. For some reason it stays in pending limbo forever without word for why it's there for so long. It's not even being rejected, it just stays in pending. At one point I let it stay in pending for two weeks before I deleted the submission. I have submitted a few other stories in between those attempts and they are published here just fine. I went through the Lit guidelines and I don't see anything to suggest I violated any of them. Also, each time I submit that story, I go through it and change it up a little to fix the story in case I find some minor thing that could be misconstrued as a guideline violation, which isn't much.

I did try to message Lit about it a couple of times, but no answer.

Any advice on what may be going on with why this one particular story keeps being stuck in pending mode and how to get past it?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

From Laurel (owner and sole editor of Literotica):
Story Pending For More Than 72 Hours? Please Read.

--Annie

 

[DanDraper]

Alight, I understand the process involved and I'll keep trying, but it doesn't explain how other stories I submit go through but it's just this one story only.
I had one posted today after only a couple days after submitting it without a problem while the story I'm talking about was still pending for much longer.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Nobody on this forum claims to understand it. We're all flailing around in the dark, trying to figure it out from not-enough clues, because the management doesn't tell us anything except "Yes, we'll publish," or "No, rejected for this reason," or [silence]. It's that last one that frustrates people.

--Annie

 

[Britva415]

each time I submit that story, I go through it and change it up a little to fix the story in case I find some minor thing that could be misconstrued as a guideline violation, which isn't much.

Don't do this without getting an actual rejection, which comes with a note stating why it was sent back. Just re-submitting it is fine. A note in the Notes field stating what happened might be helpful.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Alight, I understand the process involved and I'll keep trying, but it doesn't explain how other stories I submit go through but it's just this one story only.
I had one posted today after only a couple days after submitting it without a problem while the story I'm talking about was still pending for much longer.

What we know is that a percentage of stories are getting stuck and never seem to see the light of day again. Many stories are published just fine - based on the volume of stories, some people have guesstimated that say 10% of submissions are falling into a black hole. That might be an exaggeration.

But it is happening at random - the same person can be stuck and have another story published. Some of the most well-know writers on the site have been impacted.

Some people have broken out of purgatory by resubmitting (maybe with deletion) but even that doesn’t seem to be a universal panacea.