Submission volume dropped a lot in the second half of the week. We had a total of 90 submissions from Sunday through Wednesday, but then only another 31 from Thursday through Saturday.<\/p>\n
Of course, that's still an average of over 10 a day over those last three days, which is still significantly higher than any normal week. But 10 a day is a lot more manageable than 22 a day.<\/p>\n
Anyway, so the week's total came to 121 submissions, handily beating the previous record of 101 in an official week. (And barely beating the previous record of 120 in a seven-day period not starting with a Sunday, in the first seven days of 2004.)<\/p>\n
I offer no predictions about coming days or weeks. Something I should've explicitly said at some point this past week: these reports are honestly not meant to discourage anyone from submitting. If you try to wait 'til we're having a low-volume week, you'll probably be waiting for months, and I know many writers are experts at finding excuses not to submit their work.<\/p>\n
Still, I confess I'm relieved that my initial projection of 170 subs this week didn't come true.<\/p>\n
Jetse, what was the total for IZ<\/cite> for the week? I've been meaning to respond to your comments, but haven't gotten around to it; hope to do that soon. For now I'll just say: thanks for the data!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Submission volume dropped a lot in the second half of the week. We had a total of 90 submissions from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}