Hm... I don't mind 'adult' type material as long as it is properly tagged and not overly explicit.
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Sure, that's completely fine.
You can post anything except a journal of the character you play in Skyrim.![]()
Hey, no problem at all. Sorry for not really making it clear.
These stories don't have to be about your actual encounters in Skyrim, there just has to be an element of Skyrim in there e.g. you shouldn't write a contemporary story.
So feel free to make a story set in Skyrim and make up your own characters, towns, quests, and just let your imagination go wild.![]()
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I understand the "explicit" part. No worries there I try to keep things, at least on the sexual level at most PG13... however what about gore? For example, it's actually quite crucial to my stories that the gore and realities of war are present within them. I'm just wondering if that should be titled "explicit" or not. A really good example of real-world movies would be "Saving Private Ryan" and "Lone Survivor," both being rated R (restricted 17+ for non-USA).
I also still don't understand the difference between short stories and "character journals." The piece I'm working on is really one book. But written in first person by four different people. These will involved all of Skyrim's major plot points - dragons in Helgen, Whiterun, High Hrothgar, Alduin, etc and it will also involve quite a few of the minor quests and side quests like the Companions, College of Winterhold, and the Dawnguard.