¥ The Rules ¥
I know, you always get that annoyed feeling when you see rules when you're exciting about doing something... but don't worry, your writing won't be too restricted. As long as you abide by the following rules, everything should run smoothly...
¥ EMAIL ME : Animixx_Webmistress@hotmail.com
Please email me and tell me a little bit about yourself. You don't have to tell me your life story. Maybe about your writing experience, if you've had anything published, whatever you like. Also, please include the following info:
¤ Name
¤ Gender (Nicknames can be tricky sometimes)
¤ Age
¤ Which senario you've chosen to continue
¤ Which senario(s) you've chosen to do art for (if any - see rules below)
¤ Your rating for your story/drawing
¤ Any additional contact info, links to your other works whether it is writing or art.
The subject of your email should be : "VAMPYRE CHRONICLES" In all caps please. All email addresses not in my hotmail address book will go into my junk mail folder. I want to be sure I see your email. Once I receive this email I will add you to my address book, but please continue to use all caps in the subject. This way when you send me your writing it will be filtered directly to my inbox.
As for rating your story, this is just letting me know ahead of time what kind of writing to be expecting. We all know what R-rated means. Anything that contains, adult language and explicit sexual content. PG-13, this would be ok I believe for persons under the age of 18. So this would mean no really offensive cuss words like the "f word", or anything more sexual than making out. If its G-rated...well then anyone can read it...maybe you're writing a journal entry for a character or your character is reading a journal entry. If you have any questions about the rating of your story please feel free to ask me. I don't bite.
¥ SOME RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY
But it's probably nothing you have to worry about.
1. Your part must not stop the progression of the story. Meaning, that you can't write a paragraph about someone or something being scared and absolutely nothing happens to move things forward in the story. If you have any questions, again feel free to ask me.
2. Your story can be no shorter than two paragraphs. If you're wondering, a paragraph is normally 3-5 sentences. Is there a limit to how long you can make it? No. You can write for the story more than once so you don't have to write anything very long, but hey, if you want to that's great, I don't mind.
3. Don't kill off the two main characters. They can go through hell but don't kill them off. You can create as many characters as you like, and you can kill them, and other authors characters, but not the main two.
4. You can end a senario as well, but please let me know that is your intent when you send me an email. Only in this case might I decide you can kill off one of the characters. Mwaha, that is my power, and I will abuse it! Anyway, I will only accept an End senario if its appropriate. It wouldn't make sense if nothing has really happened in the story yet. If that senario hasn't continued in a long time that may be good cause, why leave a part of the story dangling right? If the story can't possibly go on; say that a main character has achieved their goal, then I'll accept an End senario.
5. I am stating right now that I reserve the right to turn down submissions. I doubt this will happen since I'm not going to outright turn anyone down no matter what they write. If I have a problem with something you've written, I'll write to you and see if we can work something out. Like I said, I strongly doubt this will happen. Unless you write something like eating babies and drinking pee I doubt I'm gonna object. I trust that you all can use good judgement.
6. I almost forgot to add this one! How many choices can you have at the end of your senario? NO MORE than 7. NO LESS than 3. I think the story will be much better with at least three choices, two just never seems like enough, and anything over seven would just be overkill.
You want to send illustrations with your story? You read some of the story and you are inspired to send in some artwork for it? Great! I will accept artwork as well. Maybe you're not artistically inclined, or perhaps you are. Again, before sending me anything email me with the info at the top of the page.
Ok, shameless plug time! I am also an artist and if you would like me to draw something from the story please let me know. If time permits I'll do one no problem!
¥ AVAILABILITY!
Now for the last bit of info. How will you know if a senario is available? Well in parenthesis after each senario is the word "Available" if you see it there then it is available, if there isn't and there isn't a link, that probably means I'm updating the page, or someone has written something for that senario and I just haven't been able to post it yet. Even if there is an "available" next to a senario please ask anyway since I may be updating or someone has sent somethng but I just haven't gotten the chance to update yet.
Each writer has a week to write their part and send it in from the time I give them the ok. How is a writer choosen? Well unfortunately since I can think of no other way: first come, first serve. You write to me first about writing a senario and you get to write that senario. If there is interest in additional pages of the same senario if time permits I could set up the pages. But for now, I want to see how this works out. If you can't finish your senario within the week please email me. I understand life gets in the way. However, if you skip three times without a good excuse, I won't except parts from you for a while; its not fair to everyone else.
And that is all the rules for now. If anything changes, I will note the update on the main Vampyre Chronicles page.
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