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A guide to Helium's Creative Writing channel

Helium's Creative Writing channel is a vast place. New users often have a hard time navigating through the channel and aren't sure where to post their creative pieces. It takes some time to get used to how titles are made and what goes where. This guide will help you determine where your work should be posted.

Before we review all the subchannels in the Creative Writing channel we should take a look at what's not allowed.

Plagiarism- All work posted must be your own. You cannot post other people's work. Helium only wants original work.

Foul language- For some reason, some members think they can use all kinds of foul language in the Creative Writing channel. This isn't so. Just like the rest of Helium, you can't use F's and S's. Your work will end up being deleted.

Names in Posts- Please do not put your name in your work. Rating needs to be anonymous. If you post your name in your work, Helium staff will edit it.

Self promotion- You may not post your website address or email address in your work. Your work will either be deleted or edited.

Duplicate posts- You can only post a piece on Helium one time.

All caps- You shouldn't type your work out in all capital lettering. On the internet, that's shouting. It's unprofessional and your work will be deleted.

Off topic- Your work must "go with" the title you've posted it to. Don't post a short story about love and marriage under the title Short stories: Storms.

Word count- All the subchannels in the Creative Writing channel have a minimum word count of 400 except for the Poetry subchannel and the Songs subchannel. Poetry's minimum word count is 17 and songs has a minimum word count of 50.

There are eleven subchannels in the Creative Writing channel. Here is a quick look at each one.

The Drama subchannel- Drama has got to be one of the most misunderstood subchannel on Helium. Scripts, plays, comedy sketches and monologues should be posted here. You should not post dramatic stories or poetry or memoirs in this subchannel. A good script will have character information, stage directions and dialogue. Think of scripts as external as opposed to internal. You can't get inside a character's head and know what they are thinking in a script. You can only see what they do and hear what they say.

The Essays subchannel- The Essays subchannel is for academic or literary essays. It's not a place for memoirs or reflecting on a subject. As stated in the user's guide, essays on Helium should be academic

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