You can find a link to register for an account on the front page by the login block in the upper right corner. Or you can just follow this link instead.

Yes. This is only for our use and will never be sold or given away to anyone else. We need to able to contact users for administrative purposes and for things such as lost passwords. For more information please see our Privacy Policy.

Yes you can! The option is in your forum profile.

You can change your password in your forum profile, just like your username.

The Quiz Editor allows you to make things in a question-answer format and connect the answers to different results. The Story Editor is for classic story writing styles and lacks those features.

Homepages are a space provided for users to express themselves and typically are used as a personal page for users to tell others about themselves. You are not required to make one, however the function is there and is free with every user account.

The Book Manager is a convenient system that allows users to group multiple entries into a single "book." For example, the chapters in a multi-chapter story; or a series of quizzes about a similar topic.

You can go to the Other section on the side menu, scroll to the links at the bottom of every page, or click here for the Terms of Service and here for the Privacy Policy.

If you already know basic HTML and/or CSS, you can make your homepage or work look however you want. You can look at our HTML Guide and CSS Guide for pointers, or try out the Styles Browser to use one of our pre-made layouts.

We feel we have very minimal restrictions on content, however some content is prohibited. For a full list, we suggest seeing the Content section of the Terms of Service. Besides the usual prohibition of threatening, illegal, and such in most terms of service we restrict the following content:

Short version: because we're the mom and we say so! Long version: The line has to be drawn somewhere, perferably on the side that doesn't get us sued. So certain things simply cannot be posted on our site. We've tried to minimize restrictions on content but some limits are required by law and our hosting provider's terms of service.

Yes! Just make it clear in the author's notes what the characters' updated ages are.

This is for your protection and ours. By passwording adult content, anyone that wishes to find it has to actively seek it out and cannot accidently stumble upon in. Password distribution is at your discretion, but it cannot be posted in the title or summary of the work it question.

You can find a Report Abuse link on profiles, journals, and story/quiz entries, or you can submit a report here.

Please file a report here and be able to provide documentation of the original work, preferably dated and a link to the material infringing your work. Please include any other information you feel may be revelvant.

We believe fan works such as fanfiction are transformative works and are therefore protected by fair use. According to the Organization for Trasformative Works, "Fair use favors uses that (1) are noncommercial and not sold for a profit; (2) are transformative, adding new meaning and messages to the original; (3) are limited, not copying the entirety of the original; and (4) do not substitute for the original work." You can learn more by visiting their site.

Yes! Just label them as stories and not quizzes for our search system.

No. The forums are an intergrated part of the site and you cannot not sign up for a forum account without registering on the site. It's all or nothing. Just because you have an account though doesn't mean you have to post any writing.

Yes you can! The option is in your forum profile.

If you are typing your work in Microsoft Office Word and copy/pasting over, the auto format feature of Word may be turning your quotations into those fancy curly quotation marks. We are unable to read or dispaly these specialized characters. Disable auto format or type your works up in a different program.

Internet Explorer has a mode for running older websites called Compatibility View. Having this on will break some of the functions on the home page. To turn off Compatibility View, go to Tools in Internet Explorer and make sure that Compatibility View is unchecked.

It is highly likely you are trying to use a type of code we prohibit for security reasons. These include frames, iframes, javascripts, or any other code that would compromise the site. If you feel there has been an error, please contact us.

If you run across any bugs or glitches, please report it here. Be sure to include as much information as possible, including the URL of the page where you encountered the problem and what web browser you were using when it happened.