Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10779658-20130612210050/@comment-4295646-20130612212007

Step 0. Is your story a type we currently accept? "Spinoffs", lost episodes, fanfiction, and haunted games are no longer accepted.

Step 1. Finish your story and save it in a word processor. No indents, one line break between paragraphs.

Step 2. Click Contribute in the upper right hand corner. Select "Add A Page" and go for a basic blank page (unless your story has pictures or video; most don't).

Step 3. Copy and paste your story into the editing window. Make sure to fix any formatting oddities: use the standard font/size, take out remaining indents, etc. Use the Preview button to make sure it looks just how you want it to.

Step 4. Publish the page.

Step 5. Scroll to the bottom of your new page and add categories. ONLY use the ones we already have, e.g. Disappearances, Rituals, Cryptids. For a full list, see Genre Listing. Never make up new categories. Also be sure to add the "OC" category.

Step 6. Add your story to the Article Listing and User Submissions pages by clicking Edit Page; you can look at the other users' entries on those pages for examples of the right way.

It looks scary at first, but just go step by step and you'll be fine.