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How Long Submissions Take to be Approved
December 6, 2009
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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Imaginedangerous PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 19 2010 at 6:58 pm
Teen Ink can't have more than a hundred employees, and I suspect the actual number is much lower then that. According to the forums page, there are more than 7,000 members, and more kids than that send in work by mail... they can't put everyone on instantly.
pollorambo GOLD said...
on Jun. 16 2010 at 8:37 am
i agree it takes to long for allthis to work
K9_Typical_Islander SILVER said...
on Jun. 16 2010 at 4:44 am
I'm a newbie to Teen Ink but so far from what I've read, if it means to wait out approval and letting editors double check our work FOR our work to be published online and even with a chance to be on TEEN INK MAG, I think that's a pretty good bargain. Sure good things happen to those who wait, just think of all those great artists (music, art & film, writing), explorers, scientists, actresses and actors...imagine how long they had to cope with and not knowing the end-result...we do, we just got to out-wait it.
didonrooney SILVER said...
on Jun. 15 2010 at 1:58 pm
yeah i'm new at this and i hope that my article doesn't take too long to get published...i don't even know why it should even wait for an approuval..doesn't any one not only have the right to write whatever he likes ...but also to be heard...or in our case read :p...
Muhibbity said...
on Jun. 9 2010 at 11:57 am
I posted a piece in two parts called "21 minutes" it took exactly 3 weeks to publish. Its about martyring good talent by prejudice. Do check it out and comment on it please, as I need to know in order to improve! thanks.
What they should do is create a rating system we use ourselves, kind've like what fanfiction.net has. Basicaly, you'd rate it like from G, PG, PG-13, or R. Sure we're teens, but teens are capable of writing mature material. This way we could get things posted a lot more quicker...that is if there problem is acting as a filter through all the work submitted.
czchoslovakian BRONZE said...
on May. 15 2010 at 11:20 am
i had a story that wasnt approved. i think it was too dark and therefore considered inappropriate
MissAtomic GOLD said...
on May. 10 2010 at 6:14 pm
I have had an article that wasn't approved and was taken off of my "Submitted Work" section.
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