Content Guidelines   Format Guidelines

Content Guidelines

In the interests of getting your stories up on the page as quickly and legibly as possible, please follow these guidelines when you submit your stories.

All stories submitted should revolve around the central characters of Samantha Carter and Daniel Jackson -- both friendship-centric and relationship-centric stories are welcomed. All ratings up to and including NC-17 are accepted; only complete stories are accepted. Needless to say, Sam and Jack-centric stories should go to the Sam and Jack Relationship Archive.

All work must be spellchecked. Non-spellchecked stories will be returned to the author. And please, get a betareader to edit your work before you send it out into the cold, cruel world. Betareaders help you find plot holes, misspellings, and mistakes before your readers do -- technical mistakes that can make any story, no matter how brilliant, terribly difficult to read

Format Guidelines

NOTE: The format guidelines are for submission of non-HTML'd text documents. HTML'd documents are happily accepted, since it makes my life easier and you can put your italics, etc., right where you want them. If you choose, you may also simply send a link to where your story is already archived (on your home server, or an archive like Heliopolis, if you choose).

1. Please save all stories as ASCII text. No smart quotes, no strange line breaks, etc. Just plain old text. Anything else can come up in HTML with strange and bizarre characters that look funky, but make reading a real problem. Your Save As... menu should give you the text (.txt) option. If you are using MS Word, the P/T Collective Archive run by Tara O'Shea has step-by-step instructions to help you out. I can't read most Word .doc formatted stories, so you'll save time by sending it as .txt the first time around.

2. All stories should be formatted in block paragraphs, with blank lines between paragraphs. Do not indent.

3. Make sure you enclose the following information with your submission (tor the standard notes used on the mailing lists and at Heliopolis):

• Your name and email address
• The title of the story
• The part number if submitting in multiple parts (Example: My Story, 1/3)
• A rating if you feel it needs one, and why. Readers should be alerted to violence, strong language and sexual situations.
• A spoiler listing if the story contains major third or fourth season spoilers (for the Brits and syndicated Americans in the room)
• A short summary of the story.
• Your web site if you want me to link to it from your story listing.