TPM Fanfic Board - For Dummies

[PancaKe]

FanFic 101

So, you’re new to The Pokemasters Fanfic eh? Perhaps you should look at this little guide of what we are about and some general information that should help you with our Fanfic Board.

Intro

We’ll you’re probably wondering what a Fanfic is? Basically it is a piece of Fan written literature. Simple eh? Here we like more than just Pokemon Fanfics and like nearly every single piece of writing you may choose to post. Whether it be a Buffy Fanfic, an essay you thought was quite good or even a poem or short story, we like it all here.

Well The Pokemasters or TPM’s Fanfic Board has been around since almost the beginning of time, or the creation of the forums. Back when the TPM site was at full power you could submit fics which would then be displayed on the main site once rated by some individuals most of which are no longer around TPM (Damien Silverblade, PIDGEOTTOS and Mew_Ryuu among others)

However due to the ever increasing popularity of fics and size we now only have this Fanfic Board.

The forums of TPM also had some downtime where we had a brief but highly undesirable move to an EzBoard. *Shudders* you too can view that hell – Here It wasn’t bad, we just lost a lot of regulars, gained popups and a temperamental system. But we thankfully got our UBB or Vboard back.

Fanfic is moderated by Three longtime members:

Mist

DratiniHaunter 13

OzAndrew

Basically we make sure that everything goes in the right place, organize activities and contests and intervene in various situations. There are other longtime members around too and they know their stuff.

We here at Fanfic are very lucky to have three forums, and at this time we are the only forum on TPM that has Subforums. Apart from Fanfiction we have The Writers Lounge and the Archive as well and more detail will be discussed later.

So um now I’ll go through and list some information you will need during your stay here. It’s a good read so get to it

Links

Here are some important links you might need during your stay.

The Fanfic Rules Topic
-Here is a basic and easy run down of the 7 small rules we have. If you have any questions regarding them, post there and we’ll reply ASAP.

The Fanfic News V 2.0
-Usually every week or fortnight each Fanfic Mod will take a turn to update this topic on current events, upcoming events, and a bit of humor. Each mod will have their own way of updating this topic.

The Updates Topic
-When you post another chapter of your fic, you post here with a link to let people know that they are able to read a new chapter now.

Poetry Corner
-Got a poem you’d like to share? Post it here it’ll go with a heap ‘o other ones too! You don’t have to post it here, but its optional to do it in its own topic and here too.

The Official Searching For A Fic Thread
-Read a fic here long ago and want to refind it? Well then post here and lets see if we can help!

The Fic Ideas Topic
-Got an idea for a fic and its kinda jumbled? Use this thread to help straighten it out and see if we can help.

The Fic Moving Topic
-Got a longtime fic, short story, poem or something that needs moving to the archive to be preserved till the end of time? Post here and it’ll go there into the Archive.

The Fanfic Suggestion Topic
-If you have an idea for us then post away here! We love suggestions. Really!

Here & Here
-Some useful links to some guides to writing Fanfiction here. They’re quite helpful.

Fanfic Summaries
-Need to blatently advertise!? Here’s your place!

And we’ll edit in more as needed heheheh…

Fanfic Main Forum

Here you post any and all of your literature whether it be fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, Pokemon Fanfics, Daria Fanfics, Poems, Song-Fics or Short Stories, it all goes in the main forum Mmmkay.

Now the thing to remember is Watch Your Isms Basically that means, you’re posting on a medium where many different people of all walks of life can access it. Except for those people in 3rd world countries! Hee! Sorry… so um.. be nice and courteous.

And if your fic ain’t getting stellar replies, don’t fret and go to people saying “I read your fic now read mine” or “WHY AREN’T I GETTING ANY REPLIES!!!” remember that every fic has “Closet Readers” people who read but will never reply. There’s not much you can do about them.

And don’t go advertising in other people’s fics -_-; Its tacky and cheap and people will think of you desperately grabbing for attention. Not a good look.

Another thing to remember, always give more than a 1 line reply. Try to talk about why the chapter was good, your thoughts, feelings, predictions and such because getting a 1 line reply is almost as bad as getting no replies. Also try to help people by constructive criticism, be nice and helpful.

So try to read people’s fics as such and reply. Common Courtesy… I’m done here.

The Fanfiction Archive

Well once your fic is over, or your short story dead and poem exhausted, just post in the Moving Requests Topic and we’ll get it over there ASAP! When in the archive, respect the rules there and try to remember there is more than 1 fic. Just press the drop down field and change it to “from beginning” to display all things from the beginning of earth

The Fanfiction Lounge

Here you post basically any questions, debates as such, help for your fic or anything else just post in here and we’ll help you figure it out. However if its supposed to go in one of the other topics, please do so.

But wait... there's more!

We also have other fun stuff on the board. Its not just about reading and writing fanfics. There's the Fanfic Awards. These are run seasonly, the main ones being held in Summer and Winter. The Autumn and Spring awards are usually held by members of the board. If you want to hold these awards then just PM one of the mods.

We also are starting to hold "Themed Months", where every two months the board will take on a theme, running certain activities to do with the theme. It'll be lots of fun so join in ^_^

How To Contact A Mod:

Obviously you could PM us - that's a no brainer. But for the heck of it and for your hiney's sake here are a list of contacts for each mod:

Mist:

MSN - taraeleven@hotmail.com
AIM - MistyDeeDee

OzAndrew:

MSN - ericksae@hotmail.com
AIM - The OzAndy

dratinihaunter13:

MSN - dratinihaunter13@hotmail.com
AIM - martinthirteen


Conclusion

And so ends the tour folks, the gift shop is on the left and we hope to see you again!

Any Q’s just post away.

Written by OzAndrew and Mist. Posted by Mist. ©

[Andrew]

Ok, um, edited and updated this thing a bit...

Anyone think any links need adding to it, please post and tell us, and newbies, don't be afraid to post here and ask questions.

*Yawns* So yeah... you people like?

[Charizard04621]

Not to be annoying, but when you guys edited out one of the Moderator's names, you forgot a tiny detail:

Fanfic is moderated by Four longtime members:

Mist

DratiniHaunter 13

OzAndrew

Sorry, just thought I'd point that out. There are only three of you now. ^_^;

[EDIT]: [color=orange][/orange]? Oops... Heh heh...

[Andrew]

Thanks Charnumber, its all good now. 'Sides we'll be adding another FF mod to the mix after our Contest.

Then we'll have our FF vs ASB war