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How Long Submissions Take to be Approved

December 6, 2009
By Anonymous

It seems that when you submit something, it takes weeks, perhaps even months for it to be approved. Everything is always published on the website, is it not? Has anyone ever received a letter saying your article was not approved and will never will be? I don't think so. Why not just post everything up right away so we no longer have to wait and wait to see our work up online.


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on Aug. 10 2010 at 12:50 am
Darkness95 SILVER, McFarland, California
6 articles 6 photos 27 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Carpe Diem. Seize the day!"

I'm new at this, and I just posted some of my work. I did't lnow that it took so long for your work to be posted. I agree with some of the past comments though, we should be able to rate our  own work and get it posted quicker.=/

Nevah GOLD said...
on Aug. 9 2010 at 9:50 pm
Nevah GOLD, Horseheads, New York
11 articles 0 photos 7 comments
Inkpop is okay, but I mostly feel that it's a popularity contest, and from experience, people only really review your work with almost no criticism and then request that in return for reading your short poem that you read their long chapter story. I find the whole process rather frustrating, and I'm glad I finally worked up the nerve to join this site. I think that the fact editors read my work right away is incredible and I'm willing to wait.

on Aug. 7 2010 at 1:28 pm
UnderstandMEClearlyNOW PLATINUM, Fayetteville, North Carolina
23 articles 14 photos 44 comments

Favorite Quote:
Imperfection is beauty; Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous then totally boring~~Marlin Monroe

I think what needs to happen is to post our peices immediatly but even after they are posted the editors can still look them over and delete them, post them in a high ranking section, or just leave them the way they are. 

 


on Aug. 5 2010 at 10:24 am
OfficialApprover PLATINUM, Orefield, Pennsylvania
48 articles 0 photos 1752 comments

Favorite Quote:
Grab life by the balls. -Slobberknocker<br /> We cannot change the cards we&#039;re dealt just how we play the hand<br /> Experience is what you get when you didn&#039;t get what you wanted<br /> It&#039;s pretty easy to be smart when you&#039;re parroting smart people<br /> -Randy Pausch

Good point you made.  And actually, one of my pieces just diappeared.  Wasn't accepted, but wasn't there anymore.

casey261 GOLD said...
on Jul. 27 2010 at 1:59 pm
casey261 GOLD, Hainesport, New Jersey
18 articles 0 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Don&#039;t cry because it&#039;s over, smile because it happened.&quot;

This is the author of the article and I've read a large handful of the comments. Thanks for letting me be the top article countless times, guys! I understand what everyone's saying, but there's a website called inkpop where you're posted right away and you have the chance to be reviewed by a HarperCollins editor. that proves that teenink could be a lot better.

 

 


Wordart SILVER said...
on Jul. 26 2010 at 12:10 am
Wordart SILVER, Arvada, Colorado
9 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
Hate is forgotten love.<br /> <br /> Paranoya is the brute strength of fear.<br /> <br /> Gum is sticky, like time.

Or mabey the 'reviewers' read it and pass it on up the line if they think its really good or has suspicious meaning, not that any of your material is suspicious I bet, and thats how they find the best work too.

Wordart SILVER said...
on Jul. 26 2010 at 12:01 am
Wordart SILVER, Arvada, Colorado
9 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
Hate is forgotten love.<br /> <br /> Paranoya is the brute strength of fear.<br /> <br /> Gum is sticky, like time.

I hope you are right Cassie, because one reason I joined was to get some real reviews on my poems, and it won't matter after a couple of months.

on Jul. 25 2010 at 5:05 pm
DifferentTeen PLATINUM, Seaford, Delaware
32 articles 2 photos 329 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;There&rsquo;s no such thing as true love, just spurts of insanity&mdash;falling over and over again, thinking that won&rsquo;t happen to me&quot;

Wow I've been wondering how long it takes to be approved and while I was browsing the site and saw this, I was so happy to find out but when it said 'months' I was like awww :(  I submitted something the first day I joined so I guess we'll see.

Sencere BRONZE said...
on Jul. 16 2010 at 9:11 pm
Sencere BRONZE, Annapolis, Maryland
2 articles 0 photos 52 comments

Favorite Quote:
Why am I fighting to live, when I&#039;m just living to fight. Why am I trying to see when there ain&#039;t nothing in sight. Why am I trying to give when no one gives me a try. Why am I dying to live, when I&#039;m just living to die.

I totally agree I wrote two poems and their still not up. I wrote the first one 2 weeks ago

on Jul. 13 2010 at 11:08 pm
everthought BRONZE, Vancouver, Other
1 article 13 photos 69 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;forever is the new now&quot;<br /> -anonymous

Yes I post some photos and I am waiting for them to be up! But then at least we know that the people of this website are actually reviewing our work :)

on Jul. 11 2010 at 2:28 am
sweet_silent_surenity GOLD, Puyallup, Washington
16 articles 0 photos 52 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.&quot; -Victor Hugo-

yup yup. I agree. =3

on Jul. 10 2010 at 1:58 pm
live-love-laugh BRONZE, Asldkjfoi, Connecticut
3 articles 14 photos 38 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Happiness is learning to see beyond the imperfections&quot;

I agree with Kisip_typical-Islander when she says that it's a really good deal to get a chance to be in this situation, to have peer reviews of work and a chance at getting work published. However i think to speed up the process they could have a 'moderating' system kind of like what MLIA, FML, etc. have, where users can go on and 'pass' or 'decline' articles and art. If a lot of people did it, we could have a 5-person pass system, where if it got passed by 5 users it could be published, but if it got declined by one or two, it would have to be read over by a teen ink employee. The employees would also be reading articles like they do now, and if they 'passed' an article it would automatically get published. Just to speed things up a bit.

on Jul. 10 2010 at 10:27 am
RobertoO PLATINUM, Barrington Hills, Illinois
31 articles 0 photos 14 comments
Depends, the three that I wrote took about a month to get approved. Usually poems take longer because those are the most popular genres for submission.

on Jul. 10 2010 at 10:23 am
RobertoO PLATINUM, Barrington Hills, Illinois
31 articles 0 photos 14 comments
Every single thing that I wrote was approved, but length of time taken to approve the article ranged from 4 days to 1 1/2 months. 4 of my articles got the voted #1 message, but that just means that they post your article under recently submitted on the genre's home page for about 3 days.

on Jul. 7 2010 at 9:24 pm
menike_neko BRONZE, Howell, Michigan
4 articles 29 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Don&#039;t take life too seriously, no one gets out alive any way.&quot;

Yeah I posted my stuff a two weeks ago and its still pending while my friends were published in a day.... Some are pictures how can it take so long?

on Jul. 4 2010 at 1:49 am
I can only write four letters when i comment on something  is annoying and on everything else i can comment more than four letters

on Jun. 22 2010 at 5:53 pm
LegendTitan30 GOLD, Parker, Colorado
11 articles 2 photos 15 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Anything is possible once you set your mind to it&quot;

Well I don't know why it would be hard because all you have to do is set the profile reading for us to be able to read it. I mean I understand where your coming from but sometimes I just want to read my work. Do you understand my predicament?

on Jun. 22 2010 at 4:17 pm
MissAtomic GOLD, Sebastian, Florida
10 articles 5 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.&quot;- Marilyn Monroe

It was a review of the book "Let Me In"

on Jun. 22 2010 at 4:01 pm
ashbadash BRONZE, Ocala, Florida
4 articles 1 photo 45 comments

Favorite Quote:
Friends are like glue, they always stick by your side.

My movie review called "Letters To Juliet" took only a matter of three or four days but I just sent in this new article and it's still pending approval. I do agree with you, but I also think they're looking at it's potential in their magazine. Btw anyone who reads this plzzzzzzzz check out my movie review "Letters to Juliet" and rate and comment it please. I want it to be the most top rated article!!! Thanks and tell everyone about it!!

Aidyl BRONZE said...
on Jun. 22 2010 at 2:59 pm
Aidyl BRONZE, Oshawa, Other
4 articles 0 photos 90 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;If you want a friend be a friend.&quot;<br /> <br /> -Poster<br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;That&#039;s cool. Hey you know what&#039;s even cooler than triceratops? Every other dinosaur that ever existed!&quot;<br /> -Dwight Schrute The Office

My article took about a week and a half to be posted.