- Write your articles as if you were writing for a professional blog. This should inform most of your decisions and is the most important thing to stress.
- Pick an interesting topic. Reviews are great, but in-depth critical analyses are even better. New plotscripts are great, but an article on learning to plotscript with included examples is even better. In general, the more deeply you tackle a topic, the better.
- Try to get above about 500 words if you're writing a review or other wordy article. Don't let this limit you, though! Lengthy articles are great as long as they're focused.
- Use screenshots if you're doing a review. Seriously, definitely, absolutely use screenshots. Love me some pictures.
- Spellcheck your article. If you don't have Word to do this, download Open Office or use Google documents.
- Make sure it makes sense. Read it aloud to yourself to catch any weird phrases and run-on sentences. I will send articles back to you if they are hard to read because of poor wording. This may sound harsh, but I promise it'll help both of us in the long-run.
- Don't be afraid to take your time. I usually write something, let it sit for a day, read it again and edit it.
- Have fun! Don't worry too much about being perfect; we can always work together to make an excellent article. Just write something and send it to me!
In your email, let me know how you want to be credited and if you want you name to link to any website. As far as format, the absolute best thing you can do for me is to send a pre-formatted HTML document. Second choice is a Word document, and the last option is a straight-up text file. If you have screenshots, please send them with the article all bundled up nicely in a zip file. If you need help with any of this, let me know and we'll figure it out.
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