Objective Criteria
Your story must meet the following criteria or it will not be allowed on the site:

1. Spellcheck with a US or UK English spellchecker and proofread before posting.
2. Basic punctuation must be correct: capital letter at the beginning of each sentence, proper ending punctuation at the end, etc. Possessives must be properly formed as well (Axl's shriek, not Axls shriek).
3. Dialogue punctuation must be correct. Many people get this wrong, especially when it comes to when to use commas vs. periods and when to use "he" vs. "He". For an explanation of correct dialogue punctuation visit Dialogue Punctuation Made Simple.
4. Every paragraph must have a blank line between it and the next one. This includes brief dialogue paragraphs as well. If you're unsure of how your story should look, check out other stories on the site.
5. Explicit sex between a minor and a character more than 5 years older than the minor is not allowed. Explicit sex involving anyone under 14 is not allowed.
6. Each story chapter can contain a maximum of two lines of song lyrics, unless they are lyrics you wrote yourself. (This is to avoid copyright issues.)

Subjective Criteria
Your story may be rejected or removed from the site for the following reasons:

1. The names of the characters in your story could be replaced with any characters' names and the story wouldn't be adversely affected.
2. One or more of your characters is sickeningly, unbelievably too good to be true. Could you humanize him/her a bit?
3. Your story is focused way too much on your original characters rather than on the band/band members the story is about. (Original rock band stories excluded from this requirement, of course.)
4. Your story makes no sense.
5. Your story reads more like story notes than a finished story.

Nervous About Posting a Story Now?
Take a deep breath. The first six criteria are easy to take care of: run your story through a spellchecker, proofread it, read the dialogue punctuation link, and go to the message board to ask questions if you're not sure about something.

As for the second five, if you're in doubt, go ahead and submit it. We will tell you, privately, if it fails the subjective criteria and why. If it's something you can fix, you can repost the story after you've made changes.

Please note that we have a three strike rule for reviewing stories/chapters, which means that our editors will only return a single story to you for corrections three times--if you can't follow their directions to fix the story by the third time, your story will not go up on the site. (Our instructions on what needs to be fixed tend to be pretty clear, but if you have questions, rather than guessing at or ignoring the instructions, please contact us.)

Ready? Submit a story.