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Submission guidelines
- All submissions must be about Star Trek Enterprise. Crossovers are fine. We accept pretty much all kinds of stories and all ratings.
- Place your piece of fiction in the proper category. The top-level categories for het and slash are locked; you must choose a pairing for these categories.
- You may place your fic in more than one category. Do not upload your fic twice in order to put it in different categories.
- All fics must have a title. Titles such as "Untitled," "Fic Fragment," or "Vignette" are unacceptable. If these titles are provided, the site editors will make up a title for you.
- If your fic has a pairing not listed on the drop-down menus, just select the "Other" category, and specify the pairing in your plot summary. Only use the names of all the major characters and anybody given a name in the show (Cutler, Hayes, Hess, Rostov); anyone made up (that is, authors' original characters, or OCs) should be identified as just "m" (for male or OMC) or "f" (for female or OFC).
- For posteps and missing scenes, identify them as such and place the name of the episode in the plot summary. A list of episode names is here. We encourage you to use keywords like "episode tag," "postep," "episode coda," and "missing scene" in the "Summary" field to aid in searches.
- For crossover fics, list the name of the show being crossed (Firefly, etc.) in the plot summary.
- Resist the urge to toy with your reader by failing to specify "surprise" pairings. Trust us when we tell you that more people will read your fic if you are up front about the contents.
- Use the warnings judiciously. For example, only mark a fic as "Dark" if the angst, torture, pain, and so on would honestly freak out a reader. Mild angst, particularly romance-related angst, does not need a warning.
Software tips
- The software has the capability to chapter fics; and you can also create series, where you link together stories that should be read sequentially. As a rule, use chapters for fics that cannot stand alone; and use series for sequences of fics that, although related, can be read separately.
- For chaptered fic, upload the first chapter of your story and add it. Then go to Manage Stories in your account to add additional chapters.
- Please mark your fic complete by checking the "Complete" box next to the rating. The site editors will go through periodically to ensure works in process are progressing; they may be removed if they are not completed. Authors can resubmit them when they are finally done.
- The system accepts some HTML code. A listing of acceptable HTML codes appears beside the upload form.
- If you would rather not use HTML codes (for italic, etc.), that's fine. Just use Text Only protocols, like using *asterisks* around things that are supposed to be italic. We only care that the fic is readable; it doesn't need to be beautifully formatted.
Suggested style guidelines
- Style titles like this: The Cap And Cap For Each Word, No Matter How Short Or Long It Is, And Do Not Invert Articles
- A summary is required by the software. Make sure it describes the action of the story, not the circumstances surrounding the writing of the story.
- If the fic is not new, place the date in parentheses after the plot summary. Be sure to use this format, to aid in searches: (02/28/2006)
- Put beta readers in the "Author's Notes" box.
- Put spoiled episode titles either in the summary block or in "Author's Notes." Titles are available here. It's also okay to say something like, "General Season 3 spoilers."
Definitions of genres
- A story is a prose narrative of any length—a vignette, short story, novelette, novella, or novel. A poem is a poem. And a drama is a dramatic scene.
- A drabble is a fic that is exactly 100 words long.
- A filk is a well-known song with the lyrics rewritten (here, for Enterprise characters and situations).
- A songfic is a fic with extensively quoted song lyrics embedded in it. (A fic with song lyrics as an epigraph is not necessarily a songfic.)
Definitions of warnings
The warnings available are not necessarily warnings. They are basically sort criteria.
- A crossover is a fic that crosses more than one media source: Enterprise can be crossed with Voyager, for example, or Next Generation, or Firefly, or whatever.
- A deathfic is a fic in which one of the main characters (main characters only!) dies. Killing off minor characters doesn't count. Nor does killing off a character's parent, sibling, or spouse.
- Noncon indicates nonconsensual sex or rape.
- BDSM refers to bondage, dominance, submission, and/or sadomasochism.
- An AU is an alternative universe story. This includes canon AU stories, such as stories based on 3.08 "Twilight" and 3.21 "E2," or stories set in Trek's Mirror Universe.
- The dark warning is a catchall category for intense, angsty, troubling fics.
- An Mpreg is a fic where a man gets pregnant.
- A futurefic is a fic that takes place in the future, perhaps with the characters looking back and remembering their time on Enterprise.
Site disclaimer
- We cannot accept stories about bestiality; about underage people having sex; or about real people.
- Stories may be removed from the site or reuploaded by the site editors at their discretion. Site editors also may edit your header information to bring it into conformance with site protocols, to aid readers in searching, or to remove profanity or spoilers.
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