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Fanfiction Submission Guidelines

Several of our viewers have written to ask if we accept unsolicited stories.

Yes, Trip/T'Polers does accept them. The three of us (Myst, Snugly, Bucky) read them, and if we agree on their merits, Bucky is the one who archives them. Send an email to triptpolfiction@houseoftucker.com and she will respond. Once you hear from her, it's easier for her if you send the story as a WORD attachment. If you don't have Word, try sending it as a RICH TEXT FILE underwhatever program you do have. If all else fails, you may send the story in the body of your email, If we don't accept a current story, it doesn't mean we won't accept one in the future. We will explain any reservations and you may submit a revision if you wish.

Here are our guidelines:

1. We are looking for well written stories with real plots that revolve around the characters in the television show, "Enterprise," specifically using Commander Trip Tucker and Subcommander T'Pol. We look to see that the author has made some effort to keep the characters in line with the way they are portrayed in the series. While varying from their representations on the television show is to be expected within fanfiction, the characters should be recognizable to any reader—even without their names attached—and, even with variation from the original, should remain consistent to the way you have depicted them within your story.

2. We do not seek out NC-17 stories, but we will publish them if the adult content is appropriate to the story. All chapters of NC-17 stories—even those with G to R-rated content-- must be accessed through a page in which the reader acknowledges he or she is 18 or over. Therefore, it is important to let us know at the outset if a later chapter will have NC-17 material.

3. We expect Trip to speak grammatically. The character on the show speaks with an accent characteristic of the American South; he does not speak ungrammatically. You may choose to write his accent ( "cap'n," "pleased ta meetcha," "talkin' " etc., assorted swears) but if we accept your story, we will change any double negatives, use of "ain't," or any attempts to write him as uneducated.

4. This is a Trip and T'Pol Shipper's site, so we are looking for stories which feature those two characters. Although we secretly hope to get our two favorite characters together, doing so in a story is not a requirement for publication. If anything, we'd rather not see forced romance or romantic encounters that are completely out of character. It is perfectly acceptable to have them miserable and alone, and certainly preferable to unmotivated declarations of love, especially from T'Pol.

5. If you have your characters using endearments, first names, etc., their actions should be believable and well motivated within your story.

6. Be sure to include a disclaimer that Paramount owns the series and the characters and that you are not making money off your stories. If you leave off a disclaimer, we will put one in for our protection.

7. Give your story a rating [G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17], and some genre listings as hints for the reader: Romance, Angst, Drama, Friendship, Mystery, Action/Adventure, etc. We may alter your rating and genre categories.

8. Please include a one or two line summary in the header preceding the story.

9. Please ALSO submit a separate summary giving the complete plot of your story through the conclusion. We will no longer archive stories unless the author has a clear idea where the story is headed.

10. FIRST TIME authors must submit a finished story. If you wish, you may submit the chapters as you write them, and I will archive them until you are done.

11. Indicate whether it is okay for others to archive your story.

12. You may choose to give your email address.

13. We publish unfinished stories as long as the author continues to update them. If you know you will not be finishing a story, please let us know so that we can either alert our readers, or remove the story from the archive. If a story is not updated for a year, we will contact you before removing it. If we do not receive a response within 30 days, we will remove it from the archive. That gives writers one year and one month to update.

14. We do not publish "Mary Jane" stories.

I hope this hasn't been too intimidating. We *are* looking forward to reading your stories.

Bucky, Myst, Snugly

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