THE RULES

1)ANY topic related to writing (fiction or non-fiction) or the fanfic board and its members may be posted here. This includes non-pokemon fiction.

2)Contests, Chain Stories and awards topics must be approved by a moderator prior to posting.

3)All chapters of a fic go in the same topic.

4)Post your fic on TPM, not a link to it, unless you are unable to post the fic on TPM (smiley fics for example). You MAY link to other fics related to the one you are currently posting.

5)Do not flame (insult or mock) other posters.

6)Do not spam (make completely pointless posts). The following are all spam :
-Posting only to advertise your fic
-Posting many minuscule fics at once.
-Bumping
-Posting very short (one or two lines of text) replies in a chain story.
-Do not give 1 line replies with no substance.

7)No gratuitous or overly graphic sex scenes.

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CHANGES FROM OLD RULES.

-Chain stories are now allowed.
-Rants are now allowed as long as you do not break rule 5.
-You may post your short stories in separate topics.
-You can ask people to read your fics IF and only IF you take the time to write up a decent reply to theirs (or have been replying regularly for a while to that fic)
-You can "chat" in your fic topic as long as it doesn't degenerate to posting "action" one liners (ie *hides from Joe* as the sole content of the post). I don't want to see any "Fanfic prom" though.
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What goes where:

and about this sub-forum business we got going on in fanfic..
(quote from BBP's old topic on it)...

"Well, as you can all see we have two more forums just for ourselves now! Ain't it cool? The writers lounge has expanded from a topic into a forum, and we now have a place to archive all our old fanfics instead of pointing to a collection of sites!


Briefly put, this (main forum) is for

1)The update and rules topics.
2)Challenges topics.
3)Fics currently being written and/or short stories that you are currently posting.

The writer's lounge is for any non-fiction topic that would have been legitimate under the old rules. This includes the awards topic, though they will be announced in the main forums. Feel free to talk to your heart's content (about fiction-writing-stuff) since it no longer steals first page room from the fics!

The completed fiction archive is for you to post your completed fics ALL in one go now. Do not post one chapter a day. Post it all.

DO NOT REPLY to fanfics in the archive (other than to post new chapters). Ideally, once everyone has had a few days to post their old fic there, we'll ask Kevin to make it a read-only archive. At that point, the goal of that forum will be simply for us mods to move your completed fics there a few days after they are completed (please PM us about it).

We will delete all replies in fics we are moving, so please save those topics if you want to keep the replies around. The point of the archive forum is to provide a place for completed fic to be read without having to wade through seas of replies."