As another in the list of story mods, I'll beep right in with the other mods as far as verification goes.
To repeat something that cannot be stressed enough: We're all volunteers behind the scenes. We have jobs, families, and other responsibilities. It's why there's a small army of us, literally spread across the globe. We're on at differing times, differing days. I'm a single mother who also helps care for ailing parents, and a teenaged sister. I know we've got other parents, nurses, donkeys (Hi, Wil!) and lushes.
I remember a time just within the past few weeks where, even with mods hitting the queue like crazy all day long, we couldn't get the submissions queue any LOWER than 49. And that's with mods working literally around the clock on stories.
It's not that we don't care: We're authors ourselves. We've been on that side. But sometimes you guys throw everything at us all at once.
A tip, because I read one poster talking about submitting multiple chapters to one story at once. Please DON'T do that. It bogs up the queue. Even if they were all perfect and verified, it's one story posted in a day. So, say I approved 5 chapters of your story, the last one won't be out for five more days. Rules, folks. We prefer you to submit one chapter at a time. Please do that. Save a mod's life.
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." -E.L. Doctorow
**whines a little** why don't I ever get to see that side of you?!
