A Few Simple Rules

Rules for submission:

1. Reservation: Comment and leave some sort of “I’m next” message on the most recent post to reserve your spot (You don't have to be a member of blogger to comment). Commenting on the most recent post lets others know that you are working on your portion of the story. If you don’t comment, someone else can submit the next section of the story even though you are working on it. Your reservation only holds your space for a week. If you don’t submit within a week of your comment reservation, I will delete your comment and allow someone else to reserve the spot. You can re-comment and reserve your spot if you are having writers block, but don’t abuse it.

2. Write Something: It doesn’t need to be long, it doesn’t need to be an amazing piece of literature. It supposed to be like telling stories around the campfire; just write as if you are telling the story verbally and something interesting will come out. Don’t worry about grammar either. If you want me to do a grammar check or content check or any other proofreading before I post your story, specify what you want me to do at the header of your document. Which brings me to #3.

3. The Document: Write your story in some sort of word processor, it doesn’t really matter as I can open just about any format but .txt or .rtf are the easiest to open and are less likely to cause problems. All word processors can save to these formats, you just have to tell them to do so.

4. The Submission: When you have written your section and are happy with it, go to the submittal form. Please fill out all fields. The Location and Signature fields are to identify who you are and where you are from. You can do any sort of pen name you want, but be truthful about your location. Attach your document using the form and click Submit. I will take care of the rest.

5. Time and Other Things Relating to Time: Most of the time I will post your portion of the story within the day and often times within the hour of submission. I do travel on occasion so if you don’t see your post for a while, odds are I am traveling somewhere. If you don’t see your post after a week, submit it again. It is possible that it has fallen through the cracks.

6. Ending a Story: If you feel like the story has come to a natural ending point, feel free to end the story. If you end the story, you have 3 options:

1. Reserve your spot and write the beginning for the new story.
2. Have me start another story.
3. Leave the opportunity open to the fiction community. At the bottom of your ending post specify that you want the community to take over starting a new story. If you do this option and no one has started a new story in a week, I will start a new story.

7. Have Fun With It. That is most important.

That about sums up the rules. Questions, comments, concerns, love notes, contact me here: futurecollectivefiction@gmail.com.