Fan Fiction - Transtopia Newsletter Submissions
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:18 pm
Please post your fan-fiction story here if you would like it to be featured in an upcoming Transtopia Newsletter.
Stories will be reviewed on a monthly basis. The deadline is the end of each month. You can post old or new stories. There is no limit to the number of stories that you can submit. But please don't resumbit the same story twice. Stories should conform to these guidelines:
1) 10,000 word limit. Rough guideline to start with, I won't be automatically disqualifying anything that comes in over.
2) Decent spelling, grammar and punctuation. People need to ate least run a spell-check over the thing before submitting it. This isn't me being a grammar Nazi, it's just difficult to get absorbed in a story if you're constantly being jolted out of it by bad spelling.
3) Be specific as to where/when the story is set. So what continuity is it in (G1 comic, G1 cartoon, Armada comic, etc) and where is it set? Before the events of the show comic, after, during? If during, where does it fit?
4) Fan characters are fine, but I'd prefer people avoid making them those annoying "I am more powerful than any other Transformer!!!" types. Also, consider if there's an under-used existing TF who'd fit the needs of the story just as well as someone new. Existing characters are almost always more interesting to everyone else.
How to submit:
Step 1 - create a thread in the Fan Fiction forum and post your story in it.
Step 2 - In this thread, provide the link to your thread and the name of the story.
*Please do not post your story in here because this thread would become too long and crazy to navigate.
Example
Holiday: http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=47324
Stories will be reviewed on a monthly basis. The deadline is the end of each month. You can post old or new stories. There is no limit to the number of stories that you can submit. But please don't resumbit the same story twice. Stories should conform to these guidelines:
1) 10,000 word limit. Rough guideline to start with, I won't be automatically disqualifying anything that comes in over.
2) Decent spelling, grammar and punctuation. People need to ate least run a spell-check over the thing before submitting it. This isn't me being a grammar Nazi, it's just difficult to get absorbed in a story if you're constantly being jolted out of it by bad spelling.
3) Be specific as to where/when the story is set. So what continuity is it in (G1 comic, G1 cartoon, Armada comic, etc) and where is it set? Before the events of the show comic, after, during? If during, where does it fit?
4) Fan characters are fine, but I'd prefer people avoid making them those annoying "I am more powerful than any other Transformer!!!" types. Also, consider if there's an under-used existing TF who'd fit the needs of the story just as well as someone new. Existing characters are almost always more interesting to everyone else.
How to submit:
Step 1 - create a thread in the Fan Fiction forum and post your story in it.
Step 2 - In this thread, provide the link to your thread and the name of the story.
*Please do not post your story in here because this thread would become too long and crazy to navigate.
Example
Holiday: http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=47324