Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2018 5:27:14 GMT
THE RULES
RULE 1
PLEASE DO NOT ACT LIKE A CHILD. THIS SITE IS MEANT FOR EQ’S GREATER THAN 21 YEARS OF AGE. If you cannot be civil, make mature decisions, or control emotional insecurities you will be asked to leave.
RULE 2
NO EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT! NO SADISM! NO MASOCHISM! THIS IS NOT A PORN SITE. There is no ADULT AREA. Any situations that lead up to a graphic sexual encounter will FADE TO BLACK. In situations where a character might be ‘suggestive’, please use your best judgement.
RULE 3
PROFANITY. We don't really fucking care if you want to swear, we just prefer it to be kept in character.
RULE 4
We at least require that all members have a fundamental understanding of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, how to write in THIRD PERSON, and how to properly use PLURALIZATION and ARTICLES. This is not the place to practice the BASICS of English. First-person is used for flashbacks or introspective narratives.
RULE 5
DO NOT FOLLOW THE COMMON RULES OF ROLE-PLAYING. Yeah, you heard correctly. The most painful part of COLLABORATIVE WRITING is getting your hands slapped if you manipulate another writer’s character. Here it is NOT the responsibility of the writer REPLYING TO YOUR POST, it is YOUR responsibility to properly FORESHADOW and DEPICT the action of the story so that your fellow writer can make the best INTERPRETATION. If you are unable to adequately portray what your character(s) are doing then it’s YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to contact the other writer(s) and explain. Otherwise the RULE is that the ‘RESPONDER’ will do their best to INTERPRET and continue the sequence of events as you have either started or continued them. Writers here are COMPLETELY in their RIGHT to manipulate your original character in order to MAINTAIN THE FLUIDITY OF THE STORY. This may mean that another writer puts your’s in a comprising position. So what. This is not ROLE PLAYING we are WRITING a story. Write yourself out of it. It’s the unforeseen perils that make collaborative writing fun.
RULE 6
DON’T HAPHAZARDLY GUESS. If you have NO IDEA AT ALL what you’re writing partner is doing, you’re going have to put on the brakes and hash things out. It’s not worth the aggravation. On that note, as per RULE 4, we all have to provide enough information in our posts to provide others with avenues to follow. If you’re consistently sending people around BLIND CORNERS and down DEAD END alleys you’re either making your partner(s) write the story (keeping you in tow) or you're all writing your own separate versions of events that are loosely moving in a similar direction. Not exactly a collaborative effort.
RULE 7
CANONS. They’re meant for everyone to use. Unless you’re solely portraying a canon character in a story, ANY MEMBER participating in the story can interact with them, and manipulate them so long as they’re fairly certain of their fellow writer’s intentions.
RULE 8
This is a WRITING SITE, so write. Long or short, have fun with your responses.
RULE 9
ACTIVITY. Sometimes life throws you a curve ball. What can you do? If you haven’t provided forewarning of your absence you have TWO WEEKS to respond to a story. After than, your fellow writer(s) are allowed to continue without you. They must, however, write your character(s) and keep them in the story, because, people JUST DON’T BLINK IN AND OUT OF EXISTENCE. If and when that writer has returned they can catch up and resume their role(s) if they so choose. Once again this is NOT A ROLE-PLAYING SITE. We are writing stories and character ownership is counter productive to creativity.
RULE 10
PLEASE set up a TRACKER THREAD. Trackers are not only used by you but other members of the community may rely on them.
DON’T HESITATE TO CONTACT A STAFF MEMBER. It’s never a bother, well, if you’re sending ten private messages a day, then yeah, it is. Everything within moderation.