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Posted by: Rangers51 1st August 2002 13:07
If you're submitting a fanfic here, we really appreciate it. We need more!

However, if you are submitting a serialized fanfic and seriously wish for it to be published on the CoN, we ask that you do the following:

1. Estimate how many chapters will be involved. A rough guess is okay.
2. Kindly be able to produce more than one chapter within a week of your first post.

The reason for this is not to abuse our writers, but instead to make sure that the fics we put onto the actual site have a good chance of being completed. You'll see now that some of the serialized fanfics on the CoN have been stagnant for over a year - this doesn't help the fans, and it doesn't help the writer. I hope you understand. '^_^'

Posted by: bond4154 1st August 2002 16:42
Is a fic besides FF allowed?

Posted by: Tiddles 1st August 2002 16:50
Please read my pinned topic on the usage of this forum for the answer.

Posted by: Super Moogle 1st August 2002 19:30
Eeeh...looks like I'll never get "A Nightmare Reborn" on CoN, considering that on my current writing schedule (wink, wink), I couldn't even get one chapter per month,  to say nothing of a chapter per week!

Is it all right just to finish the fic, then give all 20-plus chapters (my personal estimate for ANRB) to you as a whole?

Posted by: Bismark87 1st August 2002 19:38
Quote (Rangers51 @ 1 Aug. 2002, 08:07)
2. Kindly be able to produce more than one chapter within a week of your first post.

'>_>'

Well for this "big" chunk fanfic, wouldn't it be nice to have mutiple people working together? (especially me, I get lots of grammar errors).

Posted by: Rangers51 1st August 2002 20:05
Quote (Bismark87 @ 1 Aug. 2002, 14:38)
Well for this "big" chunk fanfic, wouldn't it be nice to have mutiple people working together? (especially me, I get lots of grammar errors).

I don't understand. What fanfic are you talking about?

And SM, that is just fine. We still accept submissions via email. '^_^'

Posted by: Alexandr 4th August 2002 04:17
A quick question:

I posted a piece of FFVI fan-fiction, a completed short story, on the other 'Creations' forum.  If I want to submit it for publication on the CoN site, should I re-post it here, or what?  I don't want to take up any more space than I have to.  

Thanks.

Posted by: Del S 3rd February 2003 21:02
can you post a fanfic abotu any FF game at all? cos if so, i can think of a way to combine them all...i think.

Posted by: Del S 19th March 2003 19:18
im planning one- i think the stuff i have made up so far is in 'your creations' in the thread 'ff6 fanfic plan' or somehting to that extent, started by me.

(not sure if this counts as a double post- as theres over amonth between the two.)

Posted by: Elena99 19th March 2003 20:37
If you think something might count as a double post, it's best to edit your last post rather then post again. However in this case, I don't think it would have showed the thread again in new posts and no one would have seen it, should you have said anything important.

Fics for any ff games should go in my Creations. If you want to submit the site, you do it in this forum, certainly, and at the moment we accept fics from FFIV, FFV and FFVI. Though it's a good idea to have the fic finished first, or near done; then you can post it a chapter at a time, or the whole thing in one go if it's not too long.

Anyway, though we do appreciate that you're trying to contribute to the site, it's always better to post saying you have the fic or part of it ready, then to post saying you'll do one, so save the posting in here for when you've got something to show us, please ^-^

Posted by: Del S 20th March 2003 21:09
ok.. thanks for clearing that all up!

Posted by: GreekEggs 10th February 2004 03:31
OK, I have one question about FanFics. I'm pretty sure Chrono Trigger can be covered in General Topics. So, my question is: Can I submit a Chrono Trigger FanFic?

Posted by: Tiddles 10th February 2004 11:51
As stated in the other pinned topic Using This Forum, we only accept submissions for games covered on the site. This is presently limited to FF4, FF5, FF6 and FFT.

You can post Chrono Trigger fanfiction in Your Creations, and if we ever add a Chrono Trigger section to the site, you may then request that we consider it as a submission. smile.gif

Posted by: GreekEggs 10th February 2004 18:45
Thanks, Tiddles. Well, I'm going to do a Chrono Trigger FanFic but I plan on doing a FF Tactics one first. It's been pointed out that no one has submitted one for FF Tactics, so I thought I'd be the first.

Posted by: ShadowNnja 5th March 2004 14:18
I have a question too. Am I allowed to submit an FF tactics Advanced? I'm not sure that'll count as a site submission, but the story's pretty good and I could add a lot to it.

Posted by: Neal 5th March 2004 14:21
You can post it in Your Creations, but as the site doesn't have an FFTA section, it won't be posted on the site.

Posted by: ShadowNnja 8th March 2004 21:26
Alright. But don't expect anything real soon. I'm not planning on releasing anything until I have about10 chapters done, and then I'll only release one a week. Ain't I evil? pirate.gif

Posted by: Elena99 15th November 2004 01:09
Just as a side note, that "within a week" isn't written in stone. If it takes 8 days to get another chapter up due to circumstances beyond your control, that's fine. We just prefer that you have most to all of the work done before you start posting.

However, if you want to post something, and then don't even have the next chapter started, it's best to not post yet.

Moderator Edit
Just to elaborate on this post, the reason for this is NOT to make your writing life harder. But since this is the site submissions forum, we want fanfics that we can actually add to the site - and we can't add unfinished fics. So if they're posted here, we expect the author to actually finish the fic so we can add it. -R51

Posted by: saint35 29th November 2004 03:27
Yeah but it would take them a while to do that because they have to think about the story then note it and type it.

Moderator Edit
Yes, we can all see that you are against thinking about something before you type it and post it for all to see. However, most people with brain functionality above the stem are not like that. -R51

Posted by: Elena99 26th February 2005 17:46
These are the categories we are now accepting fanfiction in: FF1, FF4, FF5, FF6, FF7 and FFT. If you have previously submitted a fic in Your Creations from one of these sections that you want to be considered for site submission, you're now welcome to repost the fanfic in site submissions.

Posted by: Zephir 26th February 2005 18:42
I'd repost Zapped! but I sent you a PM about it a long time ago and it never got hosted. sad.gif I just thought it was denied...

Posted by: life-giving-river 22nd March 2006 14:16
Are we allowed to post stories that are also published on a different website? It's because i've written one on Fanfiction.net and I'm wondering if it can also appear here.

it may be up to 85 chapters, well over 100k words (currently -+50k words, 28 chapters). i write so frequently that it's nearly 1 chp per day smile.gif

Posted by: Rangers51 22nd March 2006 14:47
We do allow fics that appear on other sites, most certainly. We will not publish until it's done, though, and we may not have the resources to publish something that long on a timeframe that is acceptable to you. It would be hard to say.

You might note that we're a bit more rigorous than fanfiction.net in our editorial process, too. smile.gif

Posted by: life-giving-river 22nd March 2006 15:25
All right then, I'll try to get it done ASAP. Fanfiction.net doesn't even edit it, by the way. They just let anybody post and it appears within say, two minutes if you refresh the browser. That's why some stories on that site are...well, let's just say, dodgy.

Posted by: Rangers51 22nd March 2006 16:31
Quote (life-giving-river @ 22nd March 2006 10:25)
All right then, I'll try to get it done ASAP. Fanfiction.net doesn't even edit it, by the way. They just let anybody post and it appears within say, two minutes if you refresh the browser. That's why some stories on that site are...well, let's just say, dodgy.

Exactly my point. I will not allow my team to waste their time with fics that are rife with spelling and formatting issues. smile.gif

Posted by: blade_edge 14th May 2006 13:10
are we aloud to make a fanaction that has new charecters aswell as characters form difrent FF games?

Posted by: Elena99 14th May 2006 13:54
Quote (blade_edge @ 14th May 2006 10:10)
are we aloud to make a fanaction that has new charecters aswell as characters form difrent FF games?

You can add new characters to games in fanfiction.

As for crossovers, we've never had one. But, for example, if you did an ff4 and ff6 crossover, I think we'd put it in each section. Someone on staff will be by to answer officially soon.

Posted by: Elessar 14th May 2006 16:12
Quote (Rangers51 @ 22nd March 2006 06:47)
We do allow fics that appear on other sites, most certainly. We will not publish until it's done, though, and we may not have the resources to publish something that long on a timeframe that is acceptable to you. It would be hard to say.

Curious. I might be reading this wrong, but does this statement suggest that once a submittal is complete, the CoN team reserves the privilege to continue editing a finished fanfic before placing it on the main site?

Posted by: Rangers51 14th May 2006 16:57
Quote (Elessar @ 14th May 2006 12:12)
Curious. I might be reading this wrong, but does this statement suggest that once a submittal is complete, the CoN team reserves the privilege to continue editing a finished fanfic before placing it on the main site?

Were you quoting the right thing? All I was saying there was that it takes us longer to submit things because we code them up in a way that will still allow the pages to be HTML valid and work within our system. We do not edit any fics without the author's consent - really, given the lack of time we really have to do these sorts of things we're more likely just to turn down fics that need editing.

Edit
OK, I see, the later part of my post is what you were getting at. By "editorial process," I mean more of the approval process. We don't put garbage up here, if you don't care enough to run spellcheck or have a working knowledge of grammar or narrative structure we don't really need the fic. Elitist, yes, but we'd rather have things that people enjoy reading - quality over quantity


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are we aloud to make a fanaction that has new charecters aswell as characters form difrent FF games?


Did you read any of the fics that are on the site? I'd say most of them, if not all of them, introduce at least one new character. If you are talking about crossovers, we would allow those too (and would probably file them on the site by way of which "world" the story uses). We just don't have any yet because most of the ones I've personally seen tend to be laughably bad. smile.gif

Posted by: blade_edge 19th May 2006 12:25
ok that i understand now but I have one more question...since kingdom harts is part FF game can we use stuff from there


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I don't mean to keep asking these stupid questions Im just realy slow with stuff like this blush.gif

Posted by: Del S 19th May 2006 13:21
Since Kingdom Hearts is meant to be an entirely different universe, and CoN does not cover Kingdom Hearts, I'd say it's probably no. The only ways that woud charge would be if CoN managed to create a KH section, or if there was an 'Other FF Games' section in Fanfiction.

Posted by: bond4154 1st June 2006 12:15
I know this is a stupid question, but are scripts allowed? More accurately, "screenplays"?

Posted by: Rangers51 1st June 2006 13:58
Quote (bond4154 @ 1st June 2006 08:15)
I know this is a stupid question, but are scripts allowed? More accurately, "screenplays"?

Since you IMed me about this already (must have been an urgent issue), I'll repeat: we have no issue with adding screenplays to the site as fanfiction - my wonder is whether the public will actually want to read one instead of a more standard narrative. It's a rhetorical question, for all of you who would surely love to debate it in this thread.

Posted by: Shin E Gami 25th August 2006 00:29
can someone please explain how exactly i would submit my FF VII fanfic? blink.gif

Posted by: Del S 25th August 2006 07:28
Oh, that's easy, what you do is, once you have written in a chapter or the whole thing, copy and paste the text from your word processor document into a new post in the http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/forums/ipb/?showforum=9 section.

Posted by: Shin E Gami 19th October 2006 11:32
thanks for clearing that up!

one more question, is yaoi allowed?

Posted by: Rangers51 19th October 2006 11:43
Quote (Shin E Gami @ 19th October 2006 07:32)
one more question, is yaoi allowed?

We've never come right out and said it, but we don't want any submissions that can't be made more family-friendly just through the use of disclaimers. The site tries to err on the side of caution and keep most content at "PG-13" or below, and given the very nature of the subject matter of yaoi, I've never seen any writer actually keep it even close. It's a judgement call to the staff, and there's no way to pass judgement without seeing the content. So I won't say no, but I will say the odds are not good.

Posted by: Inque 13th November 2006 19:30
I have a Question about Sex. Some of my Fan Fiction has a little Sex in it, but some of it does Not. Am I Allowed to post the ones that have Sex?

Posted by: Del S 13th November 2006 19:56
Quote (Inque @ 13th November 2006 19:30)
I have a Question about Sex. Some of my Fan Fiction has a little Sex in it, but some of it does Not. Am I Allowed to post the ones that have Sex?

I'd say no if it's graphic. You'd be better off implying it and not being explicit in any way. Make it obvious it happens but don't actually show it. If need be, edit your stuff where you have to, and be prepared to further edit it. To make sure, you should probably PM me an edited version of any fic that had sex in it and I can try and get it sorted from there. Try to keep it PG-13 as has been said above.


Posted by: raincrystal 13th December 2006 22:36
Ah, so this is where I submit fanfic to have it put up on the site? Nifty.

One question, though. Is it absolutely necessary for me to put the text of the work in a post? I have a (finished) trilogy of FFIV fics that together come to something like 40,000 words. If I were to put it in a post, I'd have to go through and use BBCode to italicize anything that's italicized. That would be a lot of work, which would be ultimately pointless since the editors will want to reformat it to go with the site anyway. May I just link you to HTML documents of the story instead?

Sure, I can reformat it to be posted here if that's what you guys require, but if it's not any more trouble for you, it would save me a lot of work just to link you to the thing.

Thanks,

-Catherine

Posted by: Del S 15th December 2006 17:28
I don't think there's any problem with that, or simply posting the fic(s) as an attachment in notepad or whatever written as HTML code. Really would need to see the actual thing to work from there for a concrete answer I'd think.

It currently needs to get converted a little from a forum post to HTML as it is, EG making square brackets into angle brackets with find and replace.

Posted by: celes_kat 19th May 2007 12:32
I have added new fanfics. I hope ya'll like them. I would also appreciate any suggestions ya'll might have. Enjoy.

Posted by: Death Penalty 12th August 2007 01:57
i have a couple unfinished fics myself, and i was wondering when the next time is that the fanfics will be updated?

Posted by: Del S 12th August 2007 14:26
The next update that will include things put into site submissions today will probably come before the end of this year if there are sufficent numbers of fics completed or submitted in time.

I think I'm allowed to say the current update has been held back slightly to coincide with something else. That something else might hopefully also provoke further fanfiction writing amongst CoN users.

Moderator Edit
Well, at this point it's been held back because I'm bloody slow. -R51

Posted by: Death Penalty 12th August 2007 18:54
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I think I'm allowed to say the current update has been held back slightly to coincide with something else. That something else might hopefully also provoke further fanfiction writing amongst CoN users.


interesting. any idea when this "something" will be made known to us?

Posted by: DR FF DS 19th October 2007 21:28
Quote (Del S @ 13th November 2006 19:56)
Quote (Inque @ 13th November 2006 19:30)
I have a Question about Sex.  Some of my Fan Fiction has a little Sex in it, but some of it does Not.  Am I Allowed to post the ones that have Sex?

I'd say no if it's graphic. You'd be better off implying it and not being explicit in any way. Make it obvious it happens but don't actually show it. If need be, edit your stuff where you have to, and be prepared to further edit it. To make sure, you should probably PM me an edited version of any fic that had sex in it and I can try and get it sorted from there. Try to keep it PG-13 as has been said above.

Or you could post two versions - PG-13 version and R-4 version. as two separate fanfics, and as ffvi was rated teen, no one SHOULD object to fanfics that are pg-13 being inapropriate becasue that would mean the game was inapropriate too, and as thus, you souldn't have played it. I think that in the gba release, they should have kept all of the oringinal swears form the japanese game translated, like ""kuso!"" (something like that, it's japanese, i learned that from watching Naruto, and hearing Naruto say that, while the fansub would say "Damn it!", or "Damn" or "Shit!" ""Kuso"" basically means that.) I don't know a single video game nerd, myself included, who isn't at least a litttle hentai..., so most people wouldn't mind an r-rated version, unless you are still a teen and your parants watch over your shoulder whenever you are on the computer. sucks for you, then!

Posted by: Rangers51 19th October 2007 23:01
Quote (DR FF DS @ 19th October 2007 17:28)

Or you could post two versions - PG-13 version and R-4 version. as two separate fanfics, and as ffvi was rated teen, no one SHOULD object to fanfics that are pg-13 being inapropriate becasue that would mean the game was inapropriate too, and as thus, you souldn't have played it. I think that in the gba release, they should have kept all of the oringinal swears form the japanese game translated, like ""kuso!"" (something like that, it's japanese, i learned that from watching Naruto, and hearing Naruto say that, while the fansub would say "Damn it!", or "Damn" or "Shit!" ""Kuso"" basically means that.) I don't know a single video game nerd, myself included, who isn't at least a litttle hentai..., so most people wouldn't mind an r-rated version, unless you are still a teen and your parants watch over your shoulder whenever you are on the computer. sucks for you, then!

But, nobody's asking you. This thread is for questions about getting your fics posted on the main CoN site.

Posted by: Lockpick 18th May 2008 23:42
Question: I have a chaptered fanfic, but it isn't finished, I don't know when it will be, and I have only a very rough estimate about how long it'll be that's already changed a few times. If I want critique on it before I submit it to the site (which I also want to do), do I put it in Your Creations, because it's not ready for the site yet, or Site Submissions, because I want it to BE on the site when it's done and don't want to waste room?

Also, it has swears, so I'm going to have to do a little editing. Besides the obvious (the F-Word) which swears are not allowed in a PG13 fic?

Posted by: Del S 19th May 2008 05:56
You can just start posting into site submissions if you wish.

I personally think swearing being censored in a work can sometimes detract from it. Those words hold power and realism, but too often they're seen as nothing but purile and childish because people abuse them. That's the problem. For realism, people swear. In the west of Scotland, there's barely a conversation without someone dropping the f-bomb in pubs and the c-word is practically used as a comma compared to the American distaste for that rude way to refer to a woman's private parts.

Either try to avoid the heavy hitters (like F & C) that never pop up in PG-13 films, or just ensure people are well warned in advance that there is possibly rude content whilst keeping it to a minimum.

Posted by: Lockpick 19th May 2008 20:06
Well, the swearing wouldn't be turned into "f***" for instance, more like just changed from something like "ass" to "butt" or whatever. I do want it to be tasteful! :D

Thanks for replying so quickly. <3

Posted by: zimithrus1 14th November 2011 03:24
im wanting to make a FInal Fantasy VII fanfic in here but i have no idea how! i just joined this site earlier today, so im still confused cry.gif
help please?

Posted by: Del S 14th November 2011 10:10
Quote (zimithrus1 @ 14th November 2011 04:24)
im wanting to make a FInal Fantasy VII fanfic in here but i have no idea how! i just joined this site earlier today, so im still confused cry.gif
help please?

Well, it depends. If you want to submit it, post it in a new thread in the site submissions part of the forum. If you want to just write it here without submitting it, post it in your creations. happy.gif

Posted by: zimithrus1 26th November 2011 05:10
Quote (Del S @ 14th November 2011 05:10)
Quote (zimithrus1 @ 14th November 2011 04:24)
im wanting to make a FInal Fantasy VII fanfic in here but i have no idea how! i just joined this site earlier today, so im still confused  cry.gif
help please?

Well, it depends. If you want to submit it, post it in a new thread in the site submissions part of the forum. If you want to just write it here without submitting it, post it in your creations. happy.gif

ah, thank you so much! smile.gif

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