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1. All submissions must be accompanied by a complete disclaimer. If a suitable disclaimer is not included, the site administrators reserve the right to add a disclaimer.  Repeat offenders may be subject to further action up to and including removal of stories and account.
   Sample Disclaimer

   Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author.  The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise.  No copyright infringement is intended.
2. Stories must be submitted to the proper category.  If there is an appropriate sub-category, DO NOT add your story to the main category.  The submission form allows you to choose multiple categories for your story, and the wonderful people who developed and maintain this software worked very hard to add that functionality for you.   So please do NOT add your story multiple times!
3. Titles and summaries must be kid friendly.  No exceptions. 
4. "Please read", "Untitled", etc. are not acceptable titles or summaries.
5. A number of authors have requested that fans refrain from writing fan fiction based on their work.  Therefore submissions will not be accepted based on the works of P.N. Elrod, Raymond Feist, Terry Goodkind, Laurell K. Hamilton, Anne McCaffrey, Robin McKinley, Irene Radford, Anne Rice, and Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb. 
6. Correct grammar and spelling are expected of all stories submitted to this site.  The site administrators are not grammar Nazis, we understand that mistakes and/or typos do happen.  However, as we do have a low threshold for spelling/grammar/punctuation errors, the site administrators reserve the right to request corrections in submissions with a multitude of grammar and/or spelling errors.  If such a request is ignored, the story will be deleted.
7. All stories must be rated correctly and have the appropriate warnings.
   

   These ratings are:
   K =	General Reading Population If it can be read by a 5-year-old, your Sunday School Teacher and/or your Great-Aunt Maude, it qualifies as K
   PK =	Parental Guidance (seriously folks, check what your kids are reading) If you wouldn't want anyone under the age of, say 10, to read your story, for whatever reason, but have no problem with your 10-year-old cousin or sibling reading it, choose PK.
   M =	Mature Readers (17+) Violence/Adult language/situations
   VL =	Mature Readers (17+) Extreme Violence/Language If it's like to give you or your best friend nightmares for the violence, etc. rate it VL

   All mature rated stories are expected to have warnings.  After all, they wouldn't have that rating if there wasn't something to be warned about!  The site administrators recognize that there is an audience for these stories, but please respect those who do not wish to read them by labeling them appropriately.  Please note: Stories containing explicit sex of any kind will be deleted, as will Slasher fics, and fics containing gratuitous and/or sexual violence. 
8. Stories with multiple chapters should be archived as such and NEVER as separate stories.  Upload the first chapter of your story, then go to Manage Stories in your account to add additional chapters. If you have trouble with this, please contact the site administrator or ask a friend to help you.
9. As much as possible, spoiler warnings are expected on all stories. For categories with serialized content, such as series of books or television series, spoilers are mandatory for the current season and/or most recent part. An appropriate spoiler warning to place in your summary would be: Spoilers for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. DO NOT do anything like this: Spoilers for the one where Spock dies.

Submissions found to be in violation of these rules may be removed and the author's account suspended at the discretion of the site administrators and/or moderators.  The site administrators reserve the right to modify these rules as needed.