| 1. We do not accept reprinted White Wolf work. We do not endeavor to recreate the source books published by White Wolf here and thereby devalue those materials. While quotes and excerpts from the book are acceptable in essays and the like, we are not looking for a simple plagiarism of White Wolf texts. Submissions like this will be ignored.
2. The work must belong to you. You cannot submit someone else's work, even if you give them credit.
3. The work must be in English. While both the webmistresses are bilingual, the site is printed only in English.
4. Excess profanity is not acceptable in a submission. Neither the designers nor the visitors are interested in how creatively you can swear.
5. Your submission must pertain to Vampire: the Masquerade. While we enjoy the other White Wolf games also, this site is specifically for V:tM. Submissions for Werewolf, Wraith, etcetera will not be accepted.
6. Submissions must be complete. Disciplines should have eight levels, unless they are paths or the powers of the Thin Blooded. New clans must include all the information White Wolf would give if they wrote them. Submissions missing a few minor things will be returned with a request to complete the work. Grossly lacking submissions will be ignored.
Before you go on to the submission form, it is highly recommended that you read the rest of this page. |
| 1. While your submission will remain your own intellectual property for which you will be duly credited, submitting your work to Sanguinus Curae means that you grant us license to host the work for as long as we like. It also means that you grant us the right to use excerpts from your work in newsletters, announcements, or whatever we see fit. These too will be credited to you directly.
2. We reserve the right to refuse any submission. While Sanguinus Curae is a site for and by V:tM players, we're still the ones paying for this domain and this webspace. While we are highly unlikely to refuse submissions on a whim, in the end what is published and what is not lies solely at our discretion.
3. We reserve the right to correct spelling and grammar errors in submissions. If these corrections are minor, we will simply change them and publish the work. If these changes are major or require a great deal of restructuring, the edited copy will be sent to you for approval before the submission is published.
4. Be sure to denote which section you are submitting an article for by using the radio buttons provided on the submission form. Failing to do this may mean your article takes much longer to get published or doesn't get published at all. |
| 1. Articles written in the first person (as in, from the point of a view of a vampire) have less chance of getting published. It's not a guarantee; many of the articles written in this fashion are both interesting and informative. Many more are not however, and the information must be twice as well-presented to justify the first-person style. Most 'articles' written in the first person would be better off as submissions to the fiction contest.
2. One sure way to get your article declined is to make a complete departure from White Wolf's established world. For example, a piece about a vampire bloodline who loves fire, walks around in daylight, and doesn't suffer paralysis from a stake through the heart will never see publication.
3. The other sure way to get your article declined is to consistently use poor grammar and spelling. A few people have taken offense to this, but so be it. This is how it is. If you want your writing published, you will have to be able to write passably.
4. Choose a subject and stay with it. Don't begin an article on the alien nature of the Tzimisce and somewhere in the middle switch over to explicating the many uses of Vicissitude. If you have multiple ideas, write multiple articles. Hodgepodge articles that can't seem to focus on one subject are rarely published.
5. Not all disciplines have to have all 8 levels, but it is far more useful if they do. While you may have written a discipline with the intention that it was developed by a kindred who couldn't have created 8 levels, someone else may want to use your creation in some other way. Providing all 8 levels means that more people can get more use out of your creation.
6. We have received many articles that amount to nothing more than complaining about something 'some players' do. To date, not one of these articles has been published. Sanguinus Curae is not a forum for players and storytellers to vent their frustrations with other players and storytellers; it is a place for people to share their insight, ideas, and experiences. If you find a widespread problem that needs to be addressed, try approaching it by writing an article that will help people realize and avoid whatever mistake they might be making. In other words, don't just point at the problem; offer solutions. For example, it is a common complaint that players make Malkavian characters that are 'silly' - carrying around stuffed animals, wearing bunny slippers, throwing pies, etc. Instead of writing an article insulting players who make these choices, try writing an article that offers ideas on how to create other kinds of Malkavian or offers insight into the many types of madness that might inflict a Malkavian.
7. The best and most-read articles on Sanguinus Curae (according to our logs, anyway) aren't the cool new discipline powers; they are the articles that offer insights into existing disciplines, clans, sects, etc. If you've spent a great deal of time playing a Bahari or pontificated at length on the possibilities of Presence, we urge you to write about this. It seems your fellow players and storytellers are more interested in this than anything else. |
