Minimum Submission Standards

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 Punctuating Dialogue.
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.)

Nervous About Posting a Story Now?
Take a deep breath. 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.

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.