CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE --BOOKMARK THIS PAGE! 
a) FCC ruling and Parental Permission & what will NOT happen if you Register here
b )If You Choose To Register - what WILL happen
c) Registration Form & link to Student Contract.
d) Change of Address or Eddress for those already Registered in the School & Resignation Form.
e) If you are a Professional fiction writer.

You will not be charged to register in the school or to enroll or attend class, and your email address will not be disclosed to advertisers.  You MUST Register before being allowed to Enroll as an active, participating student in any course.  

1. You will not be bombarded with offers to critique your manuscripts for a fee.

2. You will not be referred to vanity presses

3. You will not be referred to Agents who "read for a fee" for unpublished writers.

4. The school is open to anyone (published professionally or fannishly -- or not published yet) who wishes to learn the craft of commercial fiction writing, or who wants to improve their World Building Skills.

IF YOU CHOOSE TO REGISTER:

• You will be notified via the Email Newsletter WorldCrafters-L of the scheduled events for the school, and all subsequent real-time, live, classroom meetings -- free or shareware software (chatware) is not required if you have your browser java-enabled, but you may prefer to use your own IRC chatware.  Instructions for all class related activities will be posted via WorldCraftersGuild-L - the Newsletter.  You need not be a member of AOL or any other proprietary ISP.  Net access is all that's necessary.  BUT you must sign up separately for the WorldCrafters-l  NEWSLETTER .   Sign up online for WorldCrafters-l -- no chancy email commands to a server; just click checkboxes!

• Via WorldCrafters-l you will receive announcements of special guest lecturers.**  And Class will be held Live via our own IRC chat. 

• You will be given directions for connecting to the live sessions via WorldCrafters-L. 

• You will be given the URL where various documents you will need to read will be posted.

• You will be given Assignments via the Workshop page and/or Online Lessons.  Assignments will be turned in by emailing an attached file to studentshowcase@simegen.com  and the assignments will be posted to a passworded URL available only to students who register for a course by turning in the first Assignment for that course and to our Professional writers.  Teachers will post their commentary on the student's work on a passworded bulletin board which no students may post to -- and all students may read.   To participate FULLY you must subscribe to the NL WorldCrafters-L -- but if you can't, you will garner at least 80% of the benefit of taking the course by monitoring the cluster of websites under www.simegen.com/school/   and doing the assignments for yourself -- taking the tests posted online -- at your own pace.   

• * How is this school supported?  Students pay their tuition fees by licensing us use of their words (a deal such as a book publisher would offer -- you own the copyright, and we license certain rights for a specified period).    Thus by Registering in this school and completing the Student Contract, a student effectively becomes a professional writer while maintaining amateur status for entering contests etc.  because no actual money changes hands.  Thus all student submissions are legally warranted by the student to be completely original -- work they own and are entitled to license. 

  ** If you are a Professional Fiction writer who would like to teach in this school, see our Teacher's Contract and   email us. 

• When you're finished, be sure to read and bookmark the Student Handbook which contains the information on how to function on this virtual campus.  
• Notice also that on the Student Contract form you have a chance to adopt a PEN NAME for all student work to be posted on the WorldCrafters Guild sites, -- so you won't have to be embarrassed about your student efforts once you are selling novels or other work. 

   

   

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