Minimum requirements
- Somewhere before the beginning of your story, you include the two sentences:
- "The author of this story has read and accepted the rules for posting stories. They guarantee that the following story depicts none of the themes listed in the Forbidden Content section of the rules. " (Rule 2.b.iii)
- You add the 4 mandatory tags to your story (Language, Completion Status, Length, Consent Type) and do not use more than 6 of the other optional tags. (Tag Guidelines) (Rule 2.b.vi)
- Your first post in your story thread includes the beginning of your story. (Rule 2.b.i)
- Each update to a story is at least 1000 words long unless you are writing flash fiction. (Rule 2.b.ii)
- Include an index linking to the individual chapters of your story in the opening post in case you are writing a multi-part story. (Rule 2.b.iv)
- The Rules Explained page tries to help with how rules are to be interpreted or explains why they do exist.
What to do if you want to make real use of this forum
- Select post model 01 or 02 from underneath the "Subject" line when you create the topic for your story. It will add a template for the opening post. Remove whatever you don't need for your story from the template. The template
- automatically adds the two sentences required by rule 2.b.iii.
- automatically adds an optional disclaimer/content warning that you can adjust however you see fit or omit/exchange completely.
- automatically creates an index with links to individual chapters required by rule 2.b.iv that you only need to feed the correct URLs.
- Make use of the Topic Preview. The story template already does that for you if you don't want to think about it. Just fill out the designated section for the preview/teaser and whatever you add there will be shown to users when they hover over your thread with their mouse.
- Use up to 6 optional tags to describe your story (but not more than 6).
And if you want an example what all of this looks like, look at Record Chaser. It uses the template, has the index and includes the teaser/preview at the beginning of the post that users will see when hovering over the topic title.