Okay. Consider this bit the author's note, because it doesn't fit in with the guide in any way, shape or form. Well, kinda.

Alright, so I'm sitting here, going through my User Stats. Like, I was going through this list of like, 100+ people who got me as fav author, and looking through every single profile (yay, more hits!), and I was just about to go fanfic hunting using my list, when I just realized...noobs don't know how to put up stories, at least the newer ones...what's the point of teaching them about writing a story when they can't put it up?!

So, here we go. I'm gonna finally teach you hot to post your story up! Yay!

Alright, -plans to say that alot this chapter-, so how many of ya'll don't know how to put up a story? I'll just pretend I can see a few of you raising your hands...good!

Well, first you wanna...write your story, on some writing program like Microsoft Word, which is what I use. But Wordpad's pretty good too, so I use that half the time...so, you type your little story up, making sure that you (or your beta reader) edit and do the little...uh...things you do with fanfics...then, you go to our wonderful little site here, and click Login to get to our settings.

..but why can't we have like, a 'Settings' tab? Seriously, I got so confused a long time ago, because I didn't know how to get to my account information. There should be an individual label that says something like 'Account' or 'Settings' or...or...nevermind, forget it.

Where was I? Oh yeah, so after you get to your Account information, you click on the blue link that says Documents. It'll send you to some part that says Document Manager, and it should be empty or something...mind you, mine hasn't been empty in forever because I use the site to write my stories and never delete them...ahem...anyway.

Alright, so you go to the square blue tab under where it says Submit Document. You usually have it already on Story Format and only have to change it if you're writing a poem. Where it says Doc Label, you can either write your title for your story, or, as I like to do..."asgjiaspdjf" or something to that level.

Then you select your file where it says File on Computer, click on Submit Document, and bingo, your file has been saved! But of course, there's more, because of course fanfiction can never be simple!

...okay, ignore that. Anyway, after it's been uploaded, you click the tab for Stories. Which...well...will be empty. I think...? Mine's hasn't been empty...since...forever. Oh, I forgot, right after you join fanfiction dot net, you have to wait three freaking days before posting anything. In case one of you guys joined today or something...

So you click on New Story, right, and then some annoying message will say something like "-insert ID name here- you have not read and agreed to our story guidelines!-", so you click the link they give you and pretend to read the guidelines and click "Yes, I've et cetera."

Then, after they let you pass, they make you click New Story again, and a new window pops up that says "First Step: Click to Select Category". You click it and they open a new window, a very tiny one that has a hugeass list of all the subjects you can write fanfiction about. The first time is a pain in the ass to scroll all the way down to Full Metal Alchemist, but after that, they save the option for less scrolling.

Anyway, you click FMA (or whatever thing you're doing, but you should be doing FMA because...well...it's an FMA guide), then that window disappears and you get yet another link to actually fill in your information.

The labels for you to fill out are-

Title: This is where you put...well...your title of your story. Simple, right?

Summary: Remember chapter 6? You only have about 255 characters to squeeze your summary of your story in, so choose your words wisely! Otherwise you'll be stuck changing your summary everytime you update like I do sometimes.

Language: Hopefully you all are speaking English...if not...uh...how the hell do you know what I'm saying...er...writing?!

Rating: I'll probably have a separate chapter explaining these more...but...in short...they're like movie ratings. The more bad stuff, the higher the rating...uh...yeah

Genre 1: I need to go over genres, don't I? Well, this one is what genre you mostly picked.

Genre 2: The secondary genre. Your story is this genre, but it's not as much this one as it is the number 1 one. Fanfiction is a complicated, fickle thing, ain't it?

Status: Saying if your story's finished or not. If you're writing a oneshot, for example, you'll click it out of 'In Progress' and put it into 'Complete'. But for some reason, even when the status says complete, you can still update it. Surprise!

Category: You chose it last panel, but they have this here just in case you changed your mind and decided it was some other anime. Or you made a mistake. I did that once. Hehehe.

Character 1: If your story's centered on a certain person, you select their names from the list. No, no Original Character names though. And for some reason, Izumi ain't an option. Dammit.

Character 2: The secondary character that's not as important as the first. Not always filled in. If all the other characters are secondary, leave it saying 'Any'

And last, but not least Document: You gotta select from the document you put your story in. Sometimes this gets hard when you have multiple documents and all the labels are random letters...but...you learn from it.

Then you finally click "Submit Story" and poof! Your story's ready to read! But then you gotta go back to Documents to delete it, because Fanfiction doesn't automatically do that anymore.

And remember, anything you do to a story ain't permanent. Even the chapter can be replaced with another more edited version, like I do all the time.

Hope this chapter was helpful; it was a pain to write cuz I had to keep looking back into the Document section. Gimme reviews and I'll give ya a cookie! Next chapter is the Mary Sue rant...finally!!!