Publication guidelines
We appreciate knowledgeable material about any aspect of motor racing. There are no prequisite for becoming a writer on this publication. Just send the requisite information stated below, and you are good to go. But we draw the line on vindictive materials. Or the use of any form of profanity.
Before you send us your work, though, please read the guidelines below.
General.
1) How to send us your work. Once you have a draft or story that you’d like for us to publish, click on the three little dots beside the Publish icon in the right hand corner of your Draft page. Select Motor Racing, and click publish.
If you’re a new writer and we’re open for new writer applications, send a link to your draft (along with an introduction, your Medium username, and links to previously published works) to Andrew Okri at andrew.okri@praten.co.uk
NOTE pt. 1: We strongly encourage writers to submit Medium member-only (gated paywall) pieces. This ensures that you get paid for your writing and you reach more readers via Medium topics.
NOTE pt. 2: $$ We do not pay writers for their pieces. The primary monetary benefit we can provide writers is helping your pieces make more money through the MPP. $$
NOTE pt. 3: Finally, a reminder: you’ll only hear back from us if we’re interested in adding you as a writer and/or publishing your piece.
2) Send us focused, interesting work that makes a point. If any kind of submission is rambling, unfocused, or seems more like a journal entry than an actual story, it’s not likely to meet this bar.
Generally, we’re looking for well-developed essays with solid structure and a clear point or resolution. Consider what Medium Staff says about this:
In short, curators are looking for thoughtful, clearly written pieces that tell a compelling story, convey an interesting idea, or share a smart point of view. These can take many forms …We explicitly do not want to distribute misinformation, stories with clickbait headlines, stories that are primarily marketing a product or service, stories that use photos that the author doesn’t have the rights to use, or stories with excessive typos and errors.
This about sums up how we feel.
3) Edit and revise thoroughly before sending us your draft. This should be semi-obvious, but if you send us what is obviously a first or second draft — meaning there are typos, grammatical mistakes, or a general lack of structure or purpose — we will send it back.
Please note: we may revise the title or change the feature image to better fit our editorial guidelines.
4). Avoid using multiple images, videos, gifs and excessive stylized text. Often this has the unintended effect of distracting readers from the most important thing: the substance of the writing itself. Per feedback we’ve gotten from Medium, as well as lessons learned from publishing/editing all around the web, we think that cleaner pieces look more professional, read cleaner, and are thus generally more effective.
5) The purpose of your piece cannot be to spread hate, disparage, elicit outrage or otherwise cause harm. We are not in the business of censoring art, but we won’t provide a platform for writers whose work is clearly malicious or intent on drawing negative attention.
6) Use appropriate tags that designate the genre and content. This helps readers find your story, and helps us publish it in the correct tab.
7) Have a colorful, beautiful featured image either above or below the headline, with the source credited underneath the image. You can find free images on Pixabay, Unsplash, and numerous other sites. If it’s your own photo or graphic, please indicate that.
If you don’t include attribution, we won’t publish the piece. Artists should always be credited for their work — as writers, this is a point we all understand well.
If you’d like to understand more about copyright law and using images, here’s a great reference:
What I Learned About Copyright Law from an $800 Violation
Have you ever needed an image for a web page or blog post, so you jumped on Google images and grab the first one that…
8) No selling. The purpose of your piece cannot be to sell something. It must be interesting in and of itself. We will not accept pieces that serve no purpose other than to advertise a third-party product.
Credits :- An adaptation from the guideline of PS I love You publication
