Writers Wanted

Kevin'sView.com is becoming an Opinionated cabel of writers named Kevin. As such we would love to welcome you as one one of our volunteer writers.

Guidelines

1. Each writer on this site will be named Kevin, whether that be first name, middle name or nickname. As long as people know you as Kevin you are welcome to become a writer on the site.
   
2. Share your own opinion and thoughts. We want a wide and diverse opinions, however keep it clean. No profanity, innuendo, or porn.
   
3. While they is no direct pay for your posts, we do encourage you to place Amazon.com links to relevant material to your article using your own personal Amazon.com associates account. Any sales generated from such links will be credited to your account. If you don't have an associates account sign up for one by visiting amazon.com.
   
4. Contact Kevin Surbaugh at kevinsview -AT- Gmail .com to become a writer.
   
5. You must have a blogger/gmail account.
   
6. If approved you will be given posting access to KevinsView, so you can publish your own articles/posts on the site through the blogger dashboard.
   
7. Once approved submit a profile and picture (of yourself) to be published on the about page.
   
   
   
   
8. From your Dashboard, create a "new post" by clicking in the upper left-hand of the screen.
   
9. Title: Type the title of your post into the "Title" field. Italics should be used where appropriate, but please do not use any other HTML in the Title field. You will need to hand-code italics in the title field like this: This Text Is Italicized Use italics for albums, movies, books, video games, and TV show titles, in both the title and the body of your post. Use quotation marks for songs, chapter, and episode titles.Also be sure to capitalize appropriate words in the title. Below is the rules according to Random House:
   

   capitalizing "all nouns, pronouns and verbs, and all other words of four or more letters"--just as the convention is described in The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (Random House, 1999).
   

10. In the right hand field click on labels and select the appropriate tag(s) for your article. Please do not add new tags.
    
11. In the post field please place who the article is by at the very top. For example at the top of my posts I would have by Kevin Surbaugh.
    
12. Article Body: Type or paste your post into this field.

    
13. Be sure to get the Amazon.com link code somewhere in your post. Preferably around the middle paragraph. To get the code for your item(s), go to http://amazon.com/ (U.S. Amazon), do a search for the product or topic using the search box. Click on the appropriate item(s), which will take you to the product page. Be sure to find the associates section so as to be able to get your amazon associates links/banners for the post.
    
14. One photos per post (two if it is longer). Please be sure photos are your own or that you give credit if you borrowed them.
    
15. Regular articles (regardless of whether they are news, opinion, review, etc) must meet our 200-word minimum; most articles in this category fall between 500-1500 words.
    
16. Please use proper sentence structure and punctuation. Keep your paragraphs short and separate them with a blank line space.
    
17. Spelling is critical: spell-check your work and verify the spelling of names.
    
18. Titles and subtitles are critical: for the sake of our readers, content partners, and search engines, please be as descriptive and explicit as possible with your story titles, and include the name of the item in the title when you write a review.
    
19. Always credit and link to your sources -- make any URLs in your articles actual HTML links: Words In Link
    
20. Quote sparingly, just enough to make your point about the information contained in the quoted article(s).
    
21. Images within posts are encouraged, but be careful about size: 450x450 pixels max, and smaller is generally better. Please use the “Insert Images” tool located above the Article Body box and follow the instructions there. Please keep images away from the first paragraph. Second paragraph or lower is okay. In most cases you should use the "small" image size on the right hand off the upload tool. In addition it is better if the image is adjusted to the right or left of the article. Each case is different, in some cases a slighter larger and centered image is better. You will have to be the judge, we just don't want the image to be the focus of the article.
    

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