Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25847009-20141211172852/@comment-1186783-20141211174634

Yes, people have done it, and we usually discourage it.

Try this as a step by step:

1) Type it in word.

2) Run spell checker

3) Read over it yourself at least once (possibly more) to see how it sounds.  Mentally imagine yourself as a reader who just came across this pasta, and ask if you'd enjoy it/be scared by it.

4) After you've gone through all of those steps, post it in this board.

5) Take into account what people say.  You don't have to take every piece of advise.  Too many cooks spoil a soup, and  you want to write an AURAMAGIC story, not a WatcherAzazel story.  You do, however, want to get a good idea of what works and what doesn't.

6) Edit your word document, and copy and paste your updated story in place of the earlier draft (do not start a new thread).  Repeat until the product is satisfactory.

7) Then you're reading to post it to the main site.

I have never known a story written following these steps to be deleted.