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• Archiving Policies: if you want your own stories to be archived on Gundam Wing Addiction, please check out this page before emailing the webmaster with questions or submissions
• Formatting Guidelines: for anyone who wants to post fanfics to a mailing list and/or to a website

• Ratings, Warnings and Pairings notations: the key to some notations used throughout the archive. This is not intended to provide philosophical explanations or a justification of the yaoi phenomenon, only to detail the abbreviations and conventions used here.

• Names, numbers and main characters: Gundam Wing characters listing and short summaries of the parties involved in the Gundam Wing storyline.

• Timeline: general timeline including 49 TV episodes first aired in 1995 and one OVA, Endless Waltz (1996?), as well as Episode Zero manga. Detailed criticism welcome...

• Linking Policy: Please link only to the main page, http://www.gwaddiction.com/ and feel free to use one of the banners provided. Just let me know so I can admire your page as well!

• Editing/Beta readers: As mentioned in the Formatting Guidelines section, I highly recommend the use of a beta reader, or even better, several. Please check out the Beta readers forum in our Bulletin Board for volunteers who will be happy to beta read your fic and help you with typos, spelling and grammar... but as you do, please keep in mind the recommendations of Loch Ness, a long-time multi-fandom fic writer in her essay about what beta readers are and are not: 'Beat Me, Whip Me, Beta My Story' (Or, "I Don't Know What A Beta Reader Is, But I Want One!").
• Further essays and things to think about by Loch Ness:
  • 'Just Hold Your Breath Until Your Prose Turns Purple' (Or, "Put The Thesaurus Down And Nobody Gets Hurt!")
  • 'Mary Sue Got A Makeover' (Or, "Scully, How You've Changed!")
  • 'Life In The Commune' (Or, "You've Murdered My Mailing List, You Bitch!")
• Kirby Crow's rant about 'The Slash Not Written For A Gay Audience' should definitely be checked out and hits several cogent points.
• From the alt.startrek.creative FAQs, check out
  • 'The Mannerly Art of Critique' by Peg Robinson and
  • 'The Mannerly Art of Disagreement' by Macedon.
• Responding to feedback: you want to check 'A Guide for the Bashful Fanficcer' by nindulgence for a concise and hilarious list of options! And for sending feedback, check out 'Maeg's guide to leaving feedback' which contains some simple recommendations to improve your feedback writing skills.
• On writing: let's start quickly with 'Some Things No One Ever Told Me' by Bonnejeanne.
• Not to be outdone, hyuy and Lilias show you how not to write a yaoi lemon in 'The Worst Lemon Ever' (just a very short fragment, but more than enough to the purpose, really...)
• And there is also Reishin's tongue in cheek advice: 'How to write good 1x2 fanfiction', which probably should not be read while drinking or eating.
• Then check out these practical and useful writing tips and down-to-earth advice from the 'Master and Apprentice' archive, for any author who feels seriously about this and trust me, readers can tell if you do not re-read yourself and exercise masterly self-control over your grammar, spelling and punctuation.
• You can find a lot of help about this subject online, and a good reference is Macedon's essay on The Craft Of Writing.
• For the truly confused:
  
  • Why yaoi? I often get asked by newcomers to the yaoi genre why the Gundam Wing characters are portrayed as gay in a lot of the fanfics archived here. My immediate answer is that GW Addiction is not for the education of non-yaoi fans, so go away, shoo! But here is my standard answer for anyone who is still interested after this rude rebuttal...
  • Thoughts about yaoi What do so many women and girls enjoy about yaoi? Here are the thoughts of Joyce K. Wakabayashi, one of the most respected and popular authors in GW fandom, whose explanation seems dead-on to me.
  • What is a hentai and how did we get to be that way? the result of an on-line discussion, this practical definition of hentainess, yaoi and who exactly are fanfic writers is posted here for your edification with the author's kind permission (thanks, jay!)
  • The curse of Gundam Wing fan-fiction addiction naturally enough, the innocent, but concerned GW fan will wish to test the extent of his or her own problem with the handy test thoughtfully provided herein by D.C. Logan -who is also a sufferer of this sad affliction- affliction which strikes young and old indiscriminately across international boundaries, often as a result of national television showing of the Gundam Wing anime. Only one of the many worries of life in modern society...
• Pause for thought: Why the web is a big city with a difference. Despite its appeal of anonymity, the internet could bring individuals together rather than atomising them, suggests Michael Prowse's article.

1. Entries:
   
   

   All entries to the GW Addiction contests can be read either on the relevant forum of the Bulletin Board or by subscribing to the GWA_contest mailing list (enter your email address and click on the Yahoogroups button), in order to vote on the public result and keep abreast of all future GW Addiction contests.

2. Rules and results:
   
   
   1. the 2001 GWA Angst fanfiction contest was opened in April and the results are now in!
   2. the 2001 GWA Fluff fanfiction contest was opened in September and ran until October 15, 2001. Here are the results...
   3. the 2002 GWA Angst fanfiction contest ran until Sept.15th, 2002: check out the results here
   4. the 2002 GWA Fluff fanfiction contest is now closed (the deadline was March 15, 2003). The results are posted here!
   5. the 2003 GWA Angst fanfiction contest ran until Sept.17th, 2003: here are the results!
   6. the 2004 Angst and Fluff fanfic contests are now open and entries should be posted on the relevant forum of the Bulletin Board, and/or on the GWA_Contest Mailing List until October 15th, 2004! Detailed rules are posted on the BBS and on the GWA_Contest ML

• All authors archived at Gundam Wing Addiction (current)
• All fanfics archived at Gundam Wing Addiction, by author (this is not up-to-date yet: some data entry is still necessary, but feel free to check the new format and then send suggestions/opinions/screams of dismay)

Behind the scenes of Gundam Wing Addiction: Who and what makes this archive work, and no, it's not automated (yet)...

Q: Hold it! I do not know anything at all about Japan and therefore feel rather silly, not to mention conspicuous in this Japanese-savvy fandom, how can I rectify this?

A: Read 'Dave Barry does Japan', a book by -weirdly enough- Dave Barry. It may not teach you all you need to know about Japanese culture, but after spending a few hours rolling on the floor laughing, you'll feel a lot better!        J