Sections

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      Arts & Sciences

      Political Guide

Everyone has an opinion, an idea, or a better way to do something. Some of you may have written oodles of information. Some of you may feel that others could benefit from your fevered scribblings. Some of you may think I'm a complete wanker, have gotten it all wrong, and would like to post a counter-point.

Feel free to submit anything you like to me, so long as it is Amtgard-related and fits under these general categories:

• Service: Anything from the best way to clean up a campsite to how to be an officer to how to run a tourney or hold court. This is essentially a catch-all for anything having to do with the service side of Amtgard, including awards, protocol or ceremonies, and anything else that fits.

• Arts & Sciences: This can include how-to articles, how-not-to articles- anything A&S related. Though running an A&S competition would fall under service, articles about judging will go here.

• Rants: I don't have this section up yet simply because my generalized rants about one thing or another are scattered and I have yet to organize them. If you have something that is Amtgard related and you, personally, would qualify it as a "rant", it will go here. These types of articles may also relate to the service or A&S realms, but specfically what I'm looking for here are things that would fall more under the category of an editorial than an essay. Who knows- maybe yours could be the first on the site!

If you find any broken links, problems, or want to comment, you can e-mail me at talisin@saint13.com.

• Plaigiarism is a bad, bad, bad, naughty thing, and we declare a jihad on anyone who stoops to this. (Do not underestimate our ability to hold a grudge until death.) Really, it's bad. That's why we will never, ever, ever attempt to claim credit for your work. Any submissions that you make to the site will be CLEARLY credited to you, and you retain sole rights to your work. If and when you want it taken down, we will do so immediately. Your work will be replaced for a time with a page that informs people that you have requested that the article be withdrawn from the site and will give information about whether or not it will return (if, for example, you've asked for it to be yanked temporarily for serious revision). If you wish, it will direct people to your e-mail address/phone number/website/anonymous dropbox in the desert if they want to request the article from you. Just let us know.

• We will post all submissions in the appropriate section as a web page. The text of the submission will be formatted to fit the style of the site: if you have special requirements, let us know.

• We can also post a PDF version of the article if you wish. PDFs will be converted directly from your submitted document, but we may do some minor clean-up if the formatting doesn't work out all that well. What do we mean by this? We will ensure that the PDF is readable and as true to your original format as possible. If, for example, your article is in multiple parts, and part one is all on one page with a single sentence running onto page two, we will try to format it so that the final sentence is on page one and not left hanging out there on page two, looking weird and alone. If the title of part two is at the bottom of page three and the first sentence is on page four, we'll make sure the title and beginning of that part are on the same page. Like that. If you want to preview the PDF before it's posted, just let us know. Or submit your own PDF.

• What we WON'T do: spellcheck, revise, or in any way alter your original text. No matter how much that misspelled word on page three bothers us, we won't touch it. We won't even tell you about it. Articles that are chock-full of misspelled words and horrible sentence structure will more than likely be returned to you for further editing; articles that are readable and more-or-less clean will more than likely be posted as-is. I'd like for every article to be completely free of errors, but we don't have time to be your editor, however much we might like to be (we hear they make decent money).

1. Save your article as a Word document if at all possible. Copying and pasting into an e-mail is also acceptable, but not preferred.
2. Include a separate note with the following information:
   - A brief summary of what it is that you're submitting to us. Something like "Here's my article: it's a how-to about underwater basketweaving."
   - The name or names of the people who should receive credit for the article exactly as you'd like them to appear on the site. If you want your article to be by "John" or "John Smith" or "Lord Sir Sir Sir Johnny the Stinky-Fingered of the Four Clans of the Cow", then make sure that's what you put here. Be sure to credit anyone who needs to be: any blame for failing to credit properly falls upon YOU, and if we discover that you have failed to credit others properly the article will be immediately pulled until the situation is resolved. If you want to credit people for specific things, tell us that here, too. For example, your credit list might read "Article by Tom. Illustrations by Freaky Pete of the Prancing Purple Pirates."
3. Submissions may include illustrations when necessary; attach any pictures as separate files in addition to placing them in your article.. Keep in mind that these articles are meant to be resources of some kind, not journals or advertisements. Illustrating steps in a how-to document is acceptable. Throwing in pictures of your kid because you think he's just adorable is not. Writing a rant about how badly an event was organized and putting fifty pictures in it is probably not going to be acceptable unless the article is stellar and every single one of the pictures is necessary in order to illustrate your point. Use good judgement. We don't have a specific file size limit yet; again, be sensible.
4. Attach your own PDF, if applicable, or let us know if you'd like us to add a PDF version of your article to the site. Also let us know if you'd like to preview the PDF before it is posted.
5. E-mail your submission to saint13@saint13.com. We will respond to all submissions as promptly as possible.