First of all you have to get permission from the people whose stories you are thinking of using.

When you are ready to post then go to GAStories click on Submit Story under the Other Actions header and then it's pretty much self evident. Any problems give me a shout.

I would certainly advise that if you get to the stage of posting you credit the story your are basing it on in the story notes.

If you want to use any of mine as practice on then go ahead

Yeah that's what I figured. I think what I'll end up doing is that I'll first work on my own writing style by writing my own story and see where/how it takes me. Once I have a style I want to do work with, I'll work on permission and the rest afterwards. The ideas are there, I just don't know what I want to do in terms of "living up to expectations"...

Thanks for the info and I'm definitely going to work on getting my first story's ideas down first before I post again