1. We are not an "open" archive.
   The Art of Vin Diesel wishes to archive the best of Vin-related fanfiction. We want our visitors to know that, if they open a story, they will have a wonderful time reading it. As such, we have very high standards regarding the fiction we will accept:
   
   • Minimal to no spelling/grammar errors.
     
   • Minimal to no tense errors.
     
   • Minimal to no POV errors.
     
   • High degrees of originality and believability.
     
   • Good plotting and characterization.
     
   Stories that meet these criteria will be archived. Stories that do not meet these criteria will need to be edited and then resubmitted. We do not consider this elitist. We work very hard on this site, and so we feel it's only right that the stories we showcase display a similar level of effort and commitment.
   
   Because our archive is not open, only a site administrator can register an author account for you. There are two ways that you can go about having an author account registered:
   
   1. Send an email to our mailbox requesting an account. You must provide a link to the story you wish archived. We will review the story and let you know whether or not you're approved.
      
   2. Sign up on our message board and post your story there for workshopping. After it has been workshopped and reviewed, assuming it meets our criteria, we will set up an author account for you and archive your story.
      
   Once you have an author account, you will be able to edit your existing chapters, upload new chapters, and even upload new stories. Depending upon how consistent the quality of your work is, these stories will either be reviewed before they are accepted into the archive, or will be automatically approved, so please don't start uploading your rough drafts just because you feel like you've "made it."
   
   Note: at this time, we are attempting to catch up on archiving older stories from our message boards. Until that work is completed, we are not accepting admissions other than works that have been posted to the boards. Once we are caught up we will begin considering external works as we are able to. For now, your best bet is to join our board and begin posting your story.
   
   
2. The Art of Vin Diesel will not accept the following submissions:
   
   • Fiction about Vin Diesel as himself, or any other celebrity/real person as himself or herself. Real-Person Fiction is absolutely forbidden on this site.
     
   • Sexually-explicit material written by minors. You must be eighteen years of age to have your story archived. If you are underage, please do not try to sneak your work into the archives. For one thing, you could get us into awful legal trouble.
     
   • Sexually-explicit material written about characters under the age of consent. In most English-speaking nations, the age of consent is 16 years old. Therefore, all characters explicitly depicted as engaging in sexual activity (or being made to engage in it) must be at least 16 and preferably older. (Tasteful, implicit references to underage sex may be permitted as long as they are not graphic or gratuitous. After all, several of Vin's movies involve forays into criminal underworlds, and such things do happen to people unfortunate enough to be trapped in that environment.)
     
   • Plagiarism: This is the act of taking someone else's work -- whether word-for-word or their plot structure -- and presenting it as your own without giving them due or proper credit. It is theft. Any author found to have plagiarized another author's work will be permanently banned from our site and all of their stories will be deleted.
     
    
3. All visitors to the archives may leave feedback. We expect this feedback to be courteous. Those who post flames and/or spam may end up banned from our site altogether (yes, we can do that).
   

If you have additional questions or concerns, please email us and we will address them here.