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for drafting a guest "Faiths and Beliefs" column or for preparing material to be incorporated into a column 0. DISCLAIMER:The column began in 1994 and runs each Wednesday, but budgetary or policy changes could end it at any time. I am not a member of The Star staff; I am a "repeat free-lance" writer. 1. Thank you for agreeing to draft a guest column for the "Faiths and Beliefs" space in the Wednesday Kansas City Star or for providing me with your material to acknowledge and include in my column. 2. The column often runs about 400 words, depending on ad space and headline lay-out. Occasionally the column is severely cut, depending on ad space, placement, and shape. I have no control over the final edit, headlines, or trims. 3. Please draft your material to run about 400 words or more. I'm fairly good at editing down from a longer text. I write to space, not word-count, so polish is not required at this early stage. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions as you prepare your text. Please send plain text in an email, not as an attachment. 3a. See notes on style
below. Please remember this is a popular, rather than academic, style.
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4. Please send
me a sentence or two that I can adapt to identify you as you wish to be
identified in the column.
5. Send your material to me. The best way is email: vern@cres.org. 6. I am responsible for what is submitted to The Star, and I will prepare your material with the proper formatting. Don't count words too carefully; I'll help prune if necessary. If advisable, I will mark it up and send it back to you for your comments. Space is the demon that drives me to put words in your mouth, conflate, reduce, summarize, lose nuance, etc. But I will do this only with your cooperation. 7. Unless we've agreed on a deadline, there is no rush; but whenever you are ready, I will schedule the column. The deadline for the column is normally Thursday morning at 8 am for publication the following Wednesday in The Star's FYI section. (Holidays can affect this schedule.) If I've asked for your consent for the edited version, please phone or email me before then. 8. For examples of past columns, visit http://www.cres.org/star and browse from the index. 9.
Again, thank you. Your contribution will help Kansas Citians understand
the diversity and depth of religious life among us. I think this is important.
Vern |
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I do not know whether space will allow a 1-line, 2-line, or 3-line headline, or whether the column will appear in one long vertical space or as two or three or four or five or six horizontal columns across the page. A headline depends on many things, including how much space there is and whether all capitals or lower case letters will be used as well as the type of font and its size. Headlines must take into account such things as ad space, story placement, typographical consistency and variety, and other matters that I have no knowledge of or control over. |