User:Underscorre/WS

The Writer's Showcase is a forum for authors to draw attention to their finished pastas once they're posted on the wiki. Self-promotion can often be difficult to do tastefully, and the Showcase is intended as an easy way to bring more attention to your work. Anyone can post their stories to the showcase once they are on the main site.

The three most recent stories from the Showcase are automatically featured on the front page, and as such, it is a valuable avenue for increasing visibility. However, this also makes it a candidate for abuse, and as such, there are a number of rules dictating how you may promote your stories on the showcase.

Rules for Authors

 * You can post any of your pastas on the forum, as long as they are on the main site. As such, your stories must abide by all of the Site Rules, including the Quality Standards and rules on Unfinished Pages.
 * We highly recommend that you run your story through our Writer's Workshop before adding it to the main site. Here you can get feedback on your story to help improve it and ensure it meets the minimum quality standards.
 * You must use the WS template when creating your post.
 * To use this template, you'll need to ensure you're in the source-mode editor. Then, follow the template documentation to add it to your post. You can add the name of your pasta, your username, and a short description. The template will automatically link to the pasta, and to your user page.
 * If you don't use this template, your post will show up with a placeholder description. Administrators or Showcase Moderators will be happy to help get this working if you're having trouble.
 * You may "bump" your story (i.e: add another post to the thread so it is moved to the top) once per month for three consecutive months. After this, you'll need to wait for at least three more months before you can bump again. Please be considerate when bumping; if your story is already receiving attention, the showcase has served its purpose, and it's not necessary to take the place of another story which may still have not gotten a look over.
 * Please only post one story per thread. You can create separate threads for each story.
 * Your story (not the Showcase thread) must include the By-user template in order to credit you.
 * If your story is deleted, your thread in the Showcase will be removed too.
 * In general, be considerate towards other users when posting your stories to the Showcase. It's impossible to list every possible way people could abuse this forum, so apply some common sense in your activity. If you've got a huge back-catalogue of stories, maybe stagger posting them over the course of a couple of months, for example. We actively monitor the Showcase more than other boards, and issues such as this will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

Rules for Readers

 * Please do not respond to threads on the Writer's Showcase directly. Adding a response to the thread will bump the pasta unnecessarily. Instead, respond in the comments of the story in question. This also helps to centralise feedback for the author.
 * Our normal rules for commenting apply. Try to offer helpful feedback and constructive criticism to authors, not just "+1" or "this sucks".