Thanks to Phoenix Fanatic who gave me most of this information and Sincerely Disregard who added information and gave me most of the websites. Thanks guys!

Disclaimer: I don't own any websites or slang mentioned. Or Zellers and Flame Rising.

FictionPress Survival Guide

Survive or Die

How to write a story

Always keep the font at Times New Roman.

Always double space or the words collide on FictionPress.

How publish a story

Log in.

Go to Profile and click Documents on the side.

Click Browse and find where you saved the file.

Click Submit.

It should appear at the top of the page. Click Edit for any last minute changes.

When finished click Save Changes.

Go to Stories.

Click Create New Story.

Fun Part- pick genre, title, rating and summary.

Click Submit.

To add a chapter, save it on a different document than the first. Then repeat steps 1 to 7.

Click List Stories.

Select the story you wish to update.

Go to Add Chapter and select document.

To replace a chapter repeat steps 1 to 7.

Click List Stories.

Select the story that has the chapter you wish to replace.

Go to Replace Chapter and select the chapter you wish to replace and the document replacing it.

Slang you must know

FP- Fiction Press

FF- FanFiction

TOS- Terms of Service

POV- Point of View

OC- Original Characters (characters you made up)

OOC- Out of Character (characters not acting like themselves)

PP- Profile Picture.

PM- Private Message

WIP- Work In Progress

A/N- Author's Note. Another never ever thing: don't put an Author’s Note in the middle of the story. The best place to put an author’s note is at the end or the beginning of a story.

MS/GS- Mary Sue/ Gary Sue- The perfect character. They are thin, beautiful and better than perfect. Both Mary and Gary Sues have dangerous habits that can be life threatening such as cutting themselves or suffering from anorexia. An important part of Mary and Gary Sues is their tragic past. Mary and Gary Sues usually die in the end. No, they do not have to be named Mary or Gary to be a Mary or Gary Sue. WARNING: Mary and Gary Sues can be very annoying to readers unless you do them perfectly.

Chars- Characters.

Shippers- Relation shipper. For example, if I want Mary and Gary together I write that it’s a Mary/Gary shipper.

Slash- M/M or F/F- male/ male or female/female relationships also known as shounen-ai or yaoi (M/M) and shoujo-ai, femmeslash or yuri (F/F). Never say the word “Gay” on FictionPress or you will be shot down by reviewers and your reputation will be blown to smithereens!

Het- het- M/F- Male/ Female relationships. Opposite of Slash.

/-this is a slash. It just separates names you support like for example: Mary/Gary. It does not refer to slashfiction.

Fic- Is a story on FictionPress or FanFiction.

Drabble- Ficlet- Shortfic- Flashfic- A story that is exactly 100 words long.

Oneshot- A story that's one chapter long.

Vignette- Short story, sometimes done in series.

Crossover- Having characters from one series visit characters from another series.

Last Battle- Can only be used for some series that have “the bad guy” and “the one to stop him”, like Harry Potter and Voldemort.

Disclaimer- A note at the top of a story saying you don’t own the characters.

Noob/Newbie- Someone new to the site.

Beta- Someone who edits your story.

Fluff- EVERYBODY loves fluff. It's stupid, pointless, and plotless. Everybody loves it. A fluff/humor fic is deadly good if the author knows what they're doing. Put in a plot and BAM you have a really good story.

Spam- Well, actually, it's Spiced Ham. It was a food used a long time ago, and I'm pretty sure it tasted awful. Now, however, it a CRAZILY-USED term to describe when someone posts something stupid, like spamspamspamspam over and over.

Flames- very negative reviews or PMs. For example This story is the most f’n terrible thing ever written u r the most f’n terrible writer on FictionPress! F you! It is very easy to get caught up in a flame war but don’t let it happen! If you do anyways and ignore my wise advice the best thing to do is open a new account and start over. There are some people who go on writing websites just to flame people’s stories, for example, Flame Rising. Flame Rising is everywhere and he flames everything! If you block him he has OVER SEVEN other accounts to flame you with! The best way to deal with a flame is to ignore it.

ConCrit- Constructive Criticism

R&R- Read & Review

Revised- An edited version of an old story

Repost- when someone deletes then reposts the same story

Do’s and Don’ts of FictionPress

-Accept anonymous reviews

-Never say “Gay” on FictionPress

-Always disclaim your story (only if you use stuff you did not create yourself like Zellers)

-Never put an author’s note in the middle of a story

-Always edit your story before you publish it (some people will tear you apart for little mistakes)

-Don’t get caught up in a flame war, people can make sure that no one will ever read your stories!

How To Be A Great Reveiwer

-One reveiw with constructive critism is worth 10 times as much as "update soon"

-Aways leave a signed reveiw as often as possible, it gives the author a chance to reply

Other Writing Websites

FanFiction- EXACTLY like FictionPress but you write stories about books, movies, comics and other stuff.

Live Journal- A website often used to post stories.

Deviant Art- Used for both writing and character sketches.

The FictionPress Review- Used to find great FictionPress stories.