New member, some questions

[Samiel]

Man, it's always a bit awkward when you try to join a new community. Anyway, hello. Not too sure on how to pop up and stuff so I thought I'd just make a thread.

(I'm not even sure if introductory posts are a thing here. I can't find any old ones, but it just feels weird to start posting out of nowhere... apologies if I'm doing something weird or wrong here.)

Played the heck out of CoC first and TiTs once it became a thing. Recently I've been getting a bit more interested in flexing my writing muscles in multiple directions (been running a sorta-successful Quest on 4chan, /tg/ and then /qst/ after the split, and got a D&D module published on DTRPG), and I've never really tried my hand at smutty writing so I thought I'd hang around a bit to see how the process goes, read all the guides and guidelines, and then maybe try my hand at something simple someday.

So I wanted to ask (in order to also not make this thread completely useless), are all the relevant guidelines on the wiki / the "Event Submissions" subforum for TiTs, or is there something I'm missing somewhere? Just wanted to make sure.
And: what's the socially-acceptable point when I'm authorized to say "I'mma gonna try writing [thing] now!", if any? Am I expected to hang around the community for X number of days/weeks/months before I try my hand at anything?

 

[Noob Salad]

If you have a Google doc with writing in it, you're already more qualified than 50% of the people here.

 

[HugsAlright]

So I wanted to ask (in order to also not make this thread completely useless), are all the relevant guidelines on the wiki / the "Event Submissions" subforum for TiTs, or is there something I'm missing somewhere?

Yup, most of it's on that subforum. There's also the blacklist, but that's more common sense than anything else.

Also it's important to get permission from another character's author if you plan on writing for them.

And: what's the socially-acceptable point when I'm authorized to say "I'mma gonna try writing [thing] now!", if any? Am I expected to hang around the community for X number of days/weeks/months before I try my hand at anything?

You can start writing whenever you like, so long as you understand all the rules and stuff that come along with writing for TiTS. If you have an idea but no solid writing for it, you can shove it in the ideas subforum until you've got something to work with.

Like noobie said, if you already have writing, that's more than most people ever get, and you can post that to the submission forums as a work in progress whenever.

 

[MESeele]

There was an introduction sub forum once, but when the forum was remade I guess it didn't make the cut. Still, welcome to the forums.

 

[NathanTrial]

Welcome, I made an introductory post when I joined here too.