As mentioned on the visitor essay menu, essays
that we publish from our visitors are not held to the same standards as others
in the rest of our web site. But we do have a few rules and suggestions:
A minimum of rules:
Please prepare your essay using a plain text editor, or Microsoft
Word and Email it to us.
Sorry, we cannot accept essays in typed form, written form, or via Fax.
We are chronically short of time and do not have available staff time to type
essays into our computer.
We can only publish essays which are free of copyright restrictions.
We assume that any material that you send us is either in the public domain or
is written by yourself, and that we are free to publish it. Short quotations
from copyrighted material are usually acceptable.
As noted on our visitor essay menu, we don't publish essays
advocating spanking or other corporal punishment of children, or essays
dealing with conspiracy theories or doomsday scenarios.
Some suggestions:
We prefer essays that contain 75 lines or more.
Keep a copy of your submission in case you don't get a reply from us.
That way, you can resend it.
Please indicate whether you would like to remain anonymous or would
prefer to have your name listed with your essay.