Since I started this thread I have seen a big change. I guess my timing wasn’t good for my first attempt. It indeed took more than two weeks, but since then all my stories have been reviewed much more quickly. Thank you all for straightening out my ignorance and teaching me how the process works. I have a new appreciation for what volunteer moderators do. My first attempt may have taken so long because of my loose editing/proofreading, as quite a few punctuation errors were caught by the mod. Other stories have also seen corrections. It’s taught me to be much more thorough before I hit that send button. Actually quite amazing the work that is done here. Thank you.

Thanks for your input. I’ll check it out and see.

I find true stories to be more interesting than fiction and definitely more interesting to write. However, some of my best stories to do not end up with the characters having earth-shattering orgasms, or sometimes not even sex. Sometimes I will take one of those stories and embellish or add on to try to make the action more sexual, but I am rarely satisfied with the result. There’s ten million stories that “end the same”, but not very many that match real life.

I posted one such story as my first piece (as in no explicit sex), and have two or three others that don’t end traditionally. That first piece received pretty good grades but was a very short story. The others are a bit more involved. Should I save those stories for more traditional writing sites? Or is it ok on here?

I see that. As my first story is part of a series, I already have the next two installments done. One waiting in “drafts”. But have decided to heed the requests of the mods. As such, I will hold on submitting for a few weeks.

I am happy to see my story was finally posted. I did indeed post the story the day I joined, having been a non-member reader previously. In researching times to publish (not a simple task on this site), the only posts I had found said a few days to a week (these were older posts). Unfortunately, there was no resource available suggesting otherwise until another member commented with a link to a specific forum post.

I would like to make a suggestion that a specific number of FAQs be posted under their own heading. Certain things like estimated time to publish would seem like a very useful tool. Honestly, I had given up and stopped looking. I have only recently learned that the site is volunteer moderated and each story is reviewed manually before being approved. I apologize for my impatience as I expected it was more like other writing sites I have used. Given the limitations of such a system I will adjust my expectations accordingly and limit my product.

What is the deal with posting stories here? I wrote and posted a story almost three weeks ago and it is still “currently being reviewed”. The story was only 1,000 words and was not controversial in any way. I have written another story, currently in “drafts” because I apparently can’t post again while one is being reviewed.

Why would anyone bother to post with those parameters?