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TERMS AND CONDITIONS: By submitting your work through this program, you are granting The Good Men Project the rights to edit, publish, and promote your work. Promotion of your work may include granting permission to other websites to reprint your work in part or in full. The work may be re-published on other websites 48 hours after publication, provided the writer acknowledges any future reprints with a link to the original post at The Good Men Project. We will maintain the right to keep your finished post on The Good Men Project in perpetuity. Contributors understand they will not receive monetary compensation. By clicking submit, you also agree to receive emails from The Good Men Project. You can unsubscribe any time. THE GOOD MEN PROJECT SUBMISSION AND STYLE GUIDELINES: - You will need to submit your post as an attachment (Word doc or RFT). Include your full name, email address, and date of submission at the top of the first page. Name the document clearly: Include your name, the title and the word submission. - Please include a 2-3 sentence bio and have an author photo uploaded as a Gravatar [http://en.gravatar.com/]. Let us know the email attached to the Gravatar account if it is different than the email you submit with. - Submissions can be any length. On average, they are 900 to 1,200 words. They can be sent in unsolicited. - Only on-brand submissions will be considered. We are having a conversation about what it means to be a man in the 21st century---and it is  wide and varied and mundane and provocative. But for a post to be considered, it must always must be about, by, for, or focused on men. (Please note that approximately 20% of our contributors are women. That's great---we love women's voices. But they write about men, or sometimes about raising boys who become men.) - Content standards: Per our editorial guidelines, we will not accept material that is sexually explicit or contains hate language/slurs. This includes text, video, and/or photos that are part of submissions. - Here are some of the subjects we write about. This is not an all-inclusvie list, just thought-starters: Sports, Politics, Ethics, Parenting, Marriage, Arts & Entertainment, Work and Business, Health, Wellness, Fitness, Mental Heath, Aging, Masculinity, Dating, Relationships, Travel and Adventure, takes on News Events, OpEds, Education, Spirituality, Sexuality, Gender Issues. You can also find out more about what we write about here on our About Page [http://goodmenproject.com/about/]. - Include a suggested headline and one sentence sub-headline for your story. Refer to the website for examples. -You may submit previously published work, put you must include all appropriate credits and links back to the original. - Limit paragraph length to three or four sentences. Don't indent paragraphs. - Include any relevant photographs at the end of the story, with captions and photo credit information, if applicable. You must have permissions or rights to any photos you submit with your stories. - Insert any hyperlinks in Microsoft Word.  Follow AP Style [http://www.apstylebook.com/] guidelines regarding numbers, capitalization, abbreviations, and punctuation, with two exceptions: - For emdashes, use three hyphens---with no spaces before and after the dashes, even when using quotation marks---"like this." - Use "email" instead of "e-mail." Remember: - AP Style calls for only one space after a period or colon. - If you put two spaces between sentences, your submission will be printed, shredded, and set on fire. - Numbers under 10, like nine or eight, should be spelled out, except in the case of ages, like a 5-year-old girl, or a boy, 6. General Writing Suggestions: - Be clear; say exactly what you mean. - Avoid cliches like the plague. - Never use the word "utilize." - Avoid beginning sentences with "Look," "Listen," "You see," or "Now." - Avoid rhetorical questions. - Avoid squishy, meaningless adjectives, like "quite," "somewhat," and "interesting." - Here are some good rules for good writing, from George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm]: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. PLEASE SEE ALSO OUR POST: 10 WRITING TIPS IF YOU'RE WRITING FOR THE GOOD MEN PROJECT. [http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/10-writing-tips-if-youre-writing-for-the-good-men-project/] If you are writing a research-based post or are using research to support any claims you make in a piece: -Do not use any research behind a paywall. All research used must be available to the public. -When linking to a large study, you must include the page number(s) where the information for the claim you are making comes from. -When quoting something that links to another study, that study must also be available to the public. -When using a source that is questionable or open to bias, you MUST mention it.

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