Why the long delay to post

[dmallord]

An old thread, but relevant to me now. I submitted a story on October 7th 2025. Today, October 20, 2025, it is still pending.

Is this the new norm? It used to be quicker. Anyone having similar experiences?

 

[ElectricBlue]

An old thread, but relevant to me now. I submitted a story on October 7th 2025. Today, October 20, 2025, it is still pending.

Is this the new norm? It used to be quicker. Anyone having similar experiences?

You've obviously missed the drama of the last month, which has been full of threads about story delays. Check out the AH. You're not alone, but by the same token, stories have gone through in 24 hours, so...

 

[EmilyMiller]

An old thread, but relevant to me now. I submitted a story on October 7th 2025. Today, October 20, 2025, it is still pending.

Is this the new norm? It used to be quicker. Anyone having similar experiences?

Hiya ,

Lovely to see you .

It’s all been drama around here. For example:

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...f-your-story-and-when-submitted-here.1641620/

 

[dmallord]

Hiya ,

Lovely to see you .

It’s all been drama around here. For example:

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...f-your-story-and-when-submitted-here.1641620/

Hiya, yourself, !

I've been away from AH and slaying dragons in the political forum. I've missed the posting issues. My astronaut's story I submitted took me a long time to write; it wasn't long or complex, I just needed the energy to focus. It's much slower these days, so I had no idea of the delays.

Only one story was written this year. My last was from the end of last year, sent to Lit to post for the Mike Hammer event in July. I sent it in January, so I knew it would be held until the event's opening date.

But this next story I thought would be a week or less.

I guess I'll retrieve it and follow others' lead here by resubmitting. No harm, no foul.

Thanks

 

[dmallord]

Having left here, I checked the story status and found a rejection notification. It took fifteen days to get a response back. It doesn't say it was rejected for content. There is one sentence related to sex in space, no descriptions of it between two consenting adults, so that's not an issue. It has to be the thought that AI is involved as a default cause. This is the reply:

Dear Writer,

Thank you for your submission to Literotica. We appreciate the time and effort you've taken to write a story and submit it to our site . However, we've found that we cannot post your submission in its current form. The checklist below may help you in re-examining your manuscript.

[This is what Grammarly does to Lit's first paragraph!

Thank you for submitting your story to Literotica. We appreciate the time and effort you've taken to write and share it with us. However, we aresh your submission in its current form. The checklist below may help you review your manuscript unable to publi.]

[LOL Grammarly is pointing out 19 mistakes in this post. Wonder how many are mine? You can see Grammarly is bad at changing content, too.]

• Are you using Grammarly, ProWritingAid, Quillbot or similar software, or allowing Microsoft Word grammar check to change your words? Many modern writing packages incorporate AI. Literotica is a storytelling community centered on the sharing of human fantasies. While we do not have a policy against using tools to help with the writing process (i.e. sp, grammar check, etc.), we do ask that all work published on Literotica be created primarily by a human. If you are using a grammar check program to review your work so that you can make changes (as a spellcheck, to flag punctuation, review grammar, and/or occasionally as a thesaurus), that should be fine. If you are allowing a grammar check program to “rewrite” your words or rephrase your text, that may cross the line into AI generated text/stories (since substantial parts of the final draft may not be written by you). Please see this FAQ for more information: https://literotica.com/faq/publishing/publishing-ai NOTE: the sentence at the end of this response [[Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions.]] does not apply to stories rejected for content or AI issues. Volunteer Editors can help only with grammar, punctuation, and story mechanics issues and are not equipped to deal with AI issues. You may resubmit after you’ve made revisions.

Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions. You can find a list of Volunteer Editors here.

Please consult our Writer's Resources section and make sure you read our submission guidelines.
If you have any questions on these, please let us know.

Thanks for your time, and look forward to reading you again!

Laurel & Manu
Literotica.Com

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I use Grammarly for spelling and punctuation. I reject the changes it offers since they don't sound like me. My 7,500 words were "created primarily by a human." Grammarly sure as hell couldn't write like me. My favorite LIT editor reviewed and fixed my mistakes, and caught stuff Grammarly didn't. So there is that: a second real 'human' who took pains to review it as well.

This is silliness. What's up, Lit, with this overly protective AI claim?

Guess I should send my draft with the errors in it as a final and call it a day?

 

[ElectricBlue]

• I use Grammarly for spelling and punctuation. I reject the changes it offers since they don't sound like me. My 7,500 words were "created primarily by a human." Grammarly sure as hell couldn't write like me. My favorite LIT editor reviewed and fixed my mistakes, and caught stuff Grammarly didn't. So there is that: a second real 'human' who took pains to review it as well.

This is silliness. What's up, Lit, with this overly protective AI claim?

That's the problem. Use of Grammarly is the single biggest common element in the multiple AI rejection threads over the last two years.

It's really, really simple - DON'T use Grammarly. It's fine for business writing if you want it to sound all the same, but it's always been rubbish for fiction, even before the AI connection came along.

You've been around long enough, surely, to have read the multiple threads in the AH over the last two years about AI rejections?

Guess I should send my draft with the errors in it as a final and call it a day?

Edit your raw draft without passing it through Grammarly is your safest bet. Use the basic spell check in whatever writing software you use, apply the basics of grammar and punctuation which you must surely know by now, and your story will zip through whatever bots the site is using.

I'm sorry, but this is not new. You should have stayed away from the Political Forum, it's dulled your brain .

 

[KoraKuros]

Just checking it's not been put in draft. I had this happen I changed a detail in the subtitle and missed it being put back as draft for me to republish at the end. Sort of a feedback loop probled. I scrolled to bottom of text and itveas waiting for me to check it. It was released within two days after that. It was earlier this year.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Having left here, I checked the story status and found a rejection notification. It took fifteen days to get a response back. It doesn't say it was rejected for content. There is one sentence related to sex in space, no descriptions of it between two consenting adults, so that's not an issue. It has to be the thought that AI is involved as a default cause. This is the reply:

Dear Writer,

Thank you for your submission to Literotica. We appreciate the time and effort you've taken to write a story and submit it to our site . However, we've found that we cannot post your submission in its current form. The checklist below may help you in re-examining your manuscript.

[This is what Grammarly does to Lit's first paragraph!

Thank you for submitting your story to Literotica. We appreciate the time and effort you've taken to write and share it with us. However, we aresh your submission in its current form. The checklist below may help you review your manuscript unable to publi.]

[LOL Grammarly is pointing out 19 mistakes in this post. Wonder how many are mine? You can see Grammarly is bad at changing content, too.]

• Are you using Grammarly, ProWritingAid, Quillbot or similar software, or allowing Microsoft Word grammar check to change your words? Many modern writing packages incorporate AI. Literotica is a storytelling community centered on the sharing of human fantasies. While we do not have a policy against using tools to help with the writing process (i.e. sp, grammar check, etc.), we do ask that all work published on Literotica be created primarily by a human. If you are using a grammar check program to review your work so that you can make changes (as a spellcheck, to flag punctuation, review grammar, and/or occasionally as a thesaurus), that should be fine. If you are allowing a grammar check program to “rewrite” your words or rephrase your text, that may cross the line into AI generated text/stories (since substantial parts of the final draft may not be written by you). Please see this FAQ for more information: https://literotica.com/faq/publishing/publishing-ai NOTE: the sentence at the end of this response [[Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions.]] does not apply to stories rejected for content or AI issues. Volunteer Editors can help only with grammar, punctuation, and story mechanics issues and are not equipped to deal with AI issues. You may resubmit after you’ve made revisions.

Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions. You can find a list of Volunteer Editors here.

Please consult our Writer's Resources section and make sure you read our submission guidelines.
If you have any questions on these, please let us know.

Thanks for your time, and look forward to reading you again!

Laurel & Manu
Literotica.Com

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I use Grammarly for spelling and punctuation. I reject the changes it offers since they don't sound like me. My 7,500 words were "created primarily by a human." Grammarly sure as hell couldn't write like me. My favorite LIT editor reviewed and fixed my mistakes, and caught stuff Grammarly didn't. So there is that: a second real 'human' who took pains to review it as well.

This is silliness. What's up, Lit, with this overly protective AI claim?

Guess I should send my draft with the errors in it as a final and call it a day?

Sorry this is happening to you

If it’s any consolation, you are far from alone.

 

[SkyBubble]

Edit your raw draft without passing it through Grammarly is your safest bet. Use the basic spell check in whatever writing software you use, apply the basics of grammar and punctuation which you must surely know by now, and your story will zip through whatever bots the site is using.

And use a human editor, if necessary, to catch anything you and spell check don't.

 

[iwatchus]

Edit your raw draft without passing it

I first read this as eat your raw draft. (Probably from the discussion about cilantro and avocado in another thread.)

A whole new theory for the pending problem...

 

[cw5523729]

I first read this as eat your raw draft. (Probably from the discussion about cilantro and avocado in another thread.)

A whole new theory for the pending problem...

There are easier ways to increase the fiber in your diet.