Short Story Anthology: Speaking in Scribbles

A collection of stories about first meetings. Boy meets Girl. Girl meets Girl. Boy meets Boy. Girl meets alien species. Boy meets AI. It can be a romantic, platonic, antagonistic, etc. meeting. Any genre is accepted. I intended it to be about two characters meeting for the first time, but take the prompt however you see it. The story cannot be fan-fiction. It can be about fan characters, but the setting cannot obviously be fandom. Ex. Your Harry Potter FC's can attend a generic magic school, but it can't be called Hogwarts and they can't meet on Platform 9 3/4.

Word Count: 1000-7,500 words. No rounding. 999 and 7,501 are both inadmissible. 

 Deadline: February 22, 2014 11:59:59 EST

-Absolutely. Have a what-if scenario? Feel free to submit it.

-No. Prose only. It's a collection of short stories. 

-You can upload a picture to your deviantart gallery and use it to advertise the story you've submitted to the anthology. But as of right now, we will not be including any visual art in the anthology.

-Your submission should read as a standalone short story. And once it's in the anthology, you won't be able to upload it as part of your longer story.

-Yes, you could if you really wanted to. If you think your readers will buy something that had previously been free, then I certainly don't mind. Make sure it's formatted correctly before submitting. 

-Because I don't think it's right or legal to make a profit off of someone else's intellectual property.

-The anthology will be available to readers for a small amount of points. Not a lot, so make sure you want to write your story because you want to write it. There's no guarantee anyone will actually buy it. But anyone and everyone who contributes a story will get a share of the points. For now, it's going to be 50 for every 10,000 words in the total anthology. Every contributor gets an equal share per story. 

-Ex. We get 10 stories and the anthology totals 20,000 words. It'll be 100 . When someone buys it, a writer who contributed one story will get 10 . A writer who contributed two will get 20 .

-Well, that's what I got for now. If you've got a fairer option for dividing the profits let me know.

-Every contributor will get an equal share. I'll take whatever's left over. I'll call it a hosting fee for putting this all together, but it's really an 'I don't want to hear anyone whining that so-and-so got more points than they did' fee.

-Ex. We get 12 stories and the anthology totals 20,000 words. It'll be 100 . When someone buys it, a writer who contributed one story will get 8 . A writer who contributed two will get 16 . I'll get those remaining 4 .

-Tough. It's as fair as I can make it. If you've got something better, then please let me know. If you just want to complain, then don't. No one's forcing you to participate.

-Because there's going to be many writers, asking the reader to divvy up the points is a lot of work. So, they'll send all of the points to me and I'll divide the points amongst the writers. If you'd like I can give the points in a manner that can be converted to cash if you really want it that way. But remember point conversion has to be in multiples of 10, so if you only earn 5 the first go round you'll have to wait for someone else to buy. So, if you're okay with that, I'm okay with that.

-Anyone can submit, but I'll be choosing between 5 and 20 stories to put into the anthology. If you bitch at me about rejecting your story, I'll block you. I don't tolerate whiners. All I'm looking for are decent, interesting stories that fit into the current prompt. 

- Okay, sure. I'm going to need know your deviantart account, but it doesn't have to go in the anthology. You can have a pseudonym.

-Yes. Please don't take any themes this anthology is currently working on. Please don't take the answers from this F.A.Q word for word. I've answered them in my own words and it makes me uncomfortable to see my exact words being used by other people. And please make the anthology different in some way. Make it genre-specific, character-specific, language-specific fandom-specific, etc. I don't care, but starting an anthology based off of another anthology that does the exact same thing as the original is...weird and a little disrespectful.

-Read the submission guidelines.

    Make a new journal/poll about the anthology now.

    Tell 10 deviants about the anthology now.

    Wait and make a new journal/poll about the anthology when it's ready for the public.

    Wait and submit the anthology deviation to a group that has at least 250 watchers.

    Wait and tell 10 deviants about the anthology when it's ready for the public.

    Send me a link with proof of whatever you did. If you decide to wait, I'll remind you when the anthology is ready for readers. If, by the time we make our first sale, you still have not advertised, your share will be withheld and you will receive another reminder. If you still haven't advertised after a month, then you won't receive your share at all.

-Lay it on me and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. But if your question was already answered, I'm not going to be happy.