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As the archive receives a lot of submissions for this site, we would like to request that authors follow these guidelines for posting stories to the list and when they submit stories directly to the archivists. It will help make all of the life easier as archivists, and it will also be very helpful for readers if you provide all the requested information and follow the format guidelines. Failure to follow these guidelines will slow down the process of getting your stories up on the website. Also, please make sure to read the Archive Policies listed further down this page to ensure your submission is suitable and complies with the requirements listed here.

Subject Line

A format as shown below is recommended, as some list members may wish to separate fiction postings from general discussion:

FIC: Story Title (Part number/Total # of parts)

If you are posting as you write, and don't know how long your story will be, put "?" as the total number of parts.

Headers within Message Text

The following is the suggested information to include before the text of the your story. I'm not going to boot anyone off list for not following this format, but take note of it, and realize that including all the requested information will make both the archivists and readers happy.

• Title - the story title
• Author - the story author. Please include your email address here as well if you wish it to be listed in the archive. If your email address if not here, it will not appear with the story in the archive.
• Archive (yes or no; and where) - Stories are not automatically archived. If you want the story archived say it here.
• Category - list which of the categories best fits your story.

  Qui/Obi	Alternate-Universe	Non Q/O
  Hurt/Comfort	Angst	Plot-What-Plot
  Pre-Slash	Action/Adventure	First-Time
  Fetish/Kink	BDSM	Point of View
  Romance	Poetry	Drama
  Parody	Crossover	Non-Con
  Chan (age 15-17)	Alternate Reality	Humor
  Parody	Ani/Other	Obi/Ani
  Qui/Other	Obi/Other	Obi/Bail
  Xanatos/Other	Bruck/Other	Mace/Other

• Rating (G to NC-17) - Use your best judgment.
• Warnings - Note any content that some people might be sensitive to: rape, character death, graphic violence, graphic sex, violent sex, chan... use your judgment.
• Spoilers - warn if appropriate
• Summary - One to two line summary or intro to the story used by search engine
• Feedback (Y or N; and how) - do you want feedback? On list/off list?

Example header:

Title: Alone
Author: sidewinder (sidewinder72@yahoo.com)
 Archive: master_apprentice, and my homepage only
 Category: angst, POV
 Rating: PG
 Warnings: no sex, just a lot of angst
Spoilers: this takes place post "TPM", so proceed cautiously if you haven't seen the movie!
Summary: Obi-Wan's thoughts after the events which have recently taken place and the future.
Feedback: yes, please, any comments welcome.

Your Story

Adapted from the alt.startrek.creative FAQ on formatting story postings.

The following information is very important! Proper story formatting will make your text easier to read for everyone. It is not the job of the archivist to completely reformat your story if it is badly mangled, you don't however, have to format it into HTML. Please follow the rules listed below:

DO NOT use smart-quotes or other special formatting some word processors substitue for hyphens, ellipses, etc. Smart-quotes screw up a lot of people's email readers, and many folks trash such stories unread as soon as they see the tell-tale subscripts and superscripts and/or little black rectangles and/or just plain garbled up screens. It also gives the archivist more work to do to strip all these characters out. The easiest way to deal with this problem is to save your stories in TEXT ONLY format in your word processing file. Then CLOSE the file. Re-open it, THEN cut-and-paste the text into your email message.

DO NOT post your stories in HTML code. The vast majority of email readers can't translate the codes properly, and many people don't want to bother saving the file and firing up a web browser so they can read it.

DO NOT post stories as attachments or in Word, Wordperfect or other word-processing file formats. Some people's email servers refuse attached files. Not everyone uses the same word processors. Some people just won't open attachments out of fear of viruses. The rest of us are just too lazy to be bothered :-) So don't do it.

DO post your stories in plain old ASCII text. In your wordprocessor this may also be known as MS-DOS text, or Simple Text or Generic Text or such. If you want to indicate such things as italicized or bold text, please use text symbols such as ~this~ or *this*. I will convert them into html code for the website.

DO double-space between paragraphs. Simply indenting the paragraphs often isn't enough--tabs can get swallowed, it's easier to read with a space between paragraphs, and it makes the archivist's life easier (see a trend with that last reason here? :-)

DO split your story into digestible chunks -- approximately 25K per part seems to be good -- to accommodate email programs that can't handle larger articles without choking or cutting off the end of the article.

DO use a line-length of 70-75 characters. Not everyone's email reader
will do an
auto-word-wrap. Also long lines can sometimes get wrapped in strange ways
that make
reading text difficult, as I am illustrating here. Annoying to read, isn't
it? So keep lines short.

Policies and Archiving Team Information

The master_apprentice archiving team:
AUTHORS A-J: Laura (padawan_laura@yahoo.com)
AUTHORS K-Z: Grace (megchan@gmail.com)

For questions about general site maintenance, problems getting your stories archived, or if you need for any reason to remove one of your stories, please contact Lori at (lori @ hawksong. com)

If you are not a member of the master-apprentice mailing list and would like your fiction archived on the site, (which is definitely welcome) send your submission to the appropriate archivist according to your name. Please read the archive policies at the bottom of this page to make sure that your story is suitable for the site and make sure to follow the submission guidelines regarding how to format your story.

Submitted stories will be archived in as timely a fashion as possible, but real life may affect the rate at which this site is updated and we trust everyone to understand that. Please do not bug the archivists regarding the status of a submitted story unless more than one week has passed since a fic was posted/emailed. Please be aware that if you do not follow the submission guidelines, that will slow things down and your story may be rejected unless it is reformatted correctly. COMPLETED stories are given higher archiving priority than WORKS IN PROGRESS.

Stories are posted on this site with the authors' express permission. Do NOT archive any of these stories on another website unless you have received permission from the author to do so, or they have given free archiving rights in the disclaimer to their story.

Archive policies:

1. I will not archive fiction which involves underage (under-15) characters in explicit (R to NC17) sexual situations. Indirect references to such activity are allowed, at the discretion of the archivist, if necessary for the story. If you are uncertain about whether a story will be acceptable or not, you are welcome to ask the archivist before submitting. Please label anything with a character between the ages of 15 and 17 with the category of chan And for chan labeling and the reasons? Why 15 to 17? The high end is because almost all jurisdictions on this planet agree that 18 is the legal age of consent. 15 is considered, in most jurisdictions the youngest age of consent. Below 15, in *most* places is statutory rape and while we all know the difference between fiction and reality, this is the furthest I am willing to push the legal boundaries.
2. Underage authors. Since you shouldn't be visiting this archive if you are under the age of majority in your country, I will not accept stories from authors who are under that majority age either.
3. No actor-slash. Keep the stories focused on the characters they portray, not the men themselves. Crossover stories with characters other than Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan but played by the same actors are, however, quite welcome, as are 'alternative-universe' scenarios.
4. Plagiarism. Plagarism is an act whereby someone misleads their readers to believe that what they are reading is the original work of the writers when it is not. An excellent article on it can be found here with excellent examples: Plagarism Having someone's work inspire a work of your own is perfectly acceptable, that's how we often learn. But try not to make it too excessive and always - always credit them. Please don't tell me that there was too many people to credit because you've read a thousand stories. Take a minimum of five minutes and do a good web search and give that credit where it is due. Better yet - put yourself into your work and it will mean so much more. Never take OR modify someone else's work. Modifying something does NOT make it your own. You are vandalizing someone's work. But it's fan- fiction you argue....so it doesn't matter. Well, yes it does. It certainly matters to the person/s who have spent time cudgeling their own brains to get it out in the first place. Fandom is not that big. People will notice and wouldn't you much rather be known for your own efforts and not the light-fingering of someone else's? I will pull stories from the archive that have been proven to my satisfaction to be plagarised.
5. Character focus. This is a slash archive primarily for Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan fanfiction although fiction where one of the main characters is a Jedi (aka Obi-Wan, Anakin, Mace) is also welcome (This means they should have screen time in the movies or substancial 'screen time' in the prequel-era books). If you don't know, "slash" is fan-fiction about same-sex (male/male or female/female) relationships and situations. Submitted stories must contain Qui-Gon and/or Obi-Wan and/or Anakin, or they will be turned down. No Qui-Gon/female, Obi-Wan/female, or Anakin/female erotic/romantic stories will be accepted, unless the story also contains a strong slash theme relationship. Qui-Gon/male, Obi-Wan/male or Anakin/male fics are OK, but please be aware that as this archive is primarily meant for Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan fiction, you may not reach the best audience for your stories by posting here (try another slash archive which isn't as focused as this one is meant to be.) Stories do not have to be sexually explicit to be accepted, but the focus should be on the relationship between the Jedi, even in "pre-slash" (set before the characters become intimately involved) stories.

III. If you ever need to remove or resubmit a story to the archive with changes, please resubmit the entire story to the archivist and the changes will be made in as timely a fashion as possible.