Articles Wanted - 2023

[Stuart Taylor]

Everyone

It's time to put out a plea for more articles. The stash is looking a little bare and unbalanced. It would be great if those of you who have been thinking about, or have started, writing an article would complete the exercise.

If you need any help or have questions then please do get in touch.

Stuart

[Alan Pollock]

Hi Stuart

I hope you get what you're looking for and I'll wish you all the best

Thanks
Alan

[duttonbay]

In what respect is the stash unbalanced? What do you have too much, or not enough of?

[Stuart Taylor]

In what respect is the stash unbalanced? What do you have too much, or not enough of?

Good point. Articles are broadly classified between layouts, motive power, stock and everything else.

Right now I am short of layout articles and stock articles. I have less than 20 articles in total in the stash and an issue takes around 10 articles so that tells you how low it has got.

[B.Meldon]

I did send in a sort of layout article recently, or at least a section of layout article.

I must get around to taking the photos for the article all about the Egger-bahn tanker wagons that I had already written some years ago now!!

I will have a think about what other articles I could do that fit what is needed.

[Stuart Taylor]

I did send in a sort of layout artical recently, or at least a section of layout artical.

I must get around to taking the photos for the artical all about the Egger-bahn tanker wagons that I had already writen some years ago now!!

I will have a think about what other articles I could do that fit what is needed.

Brian, indeed you did and it will either be in the issue I am putting together now or the one after. Thanks!

[Giles Perkins]

Happy to do something on my 'Little Himalayan Railway" pizza layout, but it would have to be Q3 as I need to get it finished!

https://www.009society.com/forum/index.php?topic=5206.0

[Stuart Taylor]

Happy to do something on my 'Little Himalayan Railway" pizza layout, but it would have to be Q3 as I need to get it finished!

https://www.009society.com/forum/index.php?topic=5206.0

Giles

That would be fine. I look forward to it. There hasn't been a Himalayan layout for as long as I can remember!

Stuart

[Giles Perkins]

Super I'll Gove that some though - do you have guidelines, word count, no of images etc.?

[Stuart Taylor]

Super I'll Gove that some though - do you have guidelines, word count, no of images etc.?

Giles, sorry to take so long to respond. I've been thinking about writing some guides for a while on aspects of writing for 009 News. Attached to this post is the first draft of such an article.

The rough summary is that a typical page for an article is:

• 1 full width picture with 600 words
• 2 half width pictures with 750 words
• 3 half width pictures with 600 words

Pictures should be as large as possible and uncropped. Expect only 75% to be used.

I hope this helps.

Stuart

[Malcolm]

Stuart
Some if not all the photographs I submitted the other day will have been cropped and possibly not of an appropriate resolution.   If a problem let me know and I'll send you originals as required.
Malcolm

[WALLSHIRTS]

Do you need a word document and jpegs or can I send a PDF?
Mal

[Stuart Taylor]

Mal

Word and separate jpgs please. Pdfs are a right pain to extract text from.

Thanks

Stuart

[Mac Strong]

Do you want pictures referenced in the article (eg Pic1) so that you know what the separate pic relates to or do you prefer another method such as a short description with the picture ?

Mac

[Stuart Taylor]

Do you want pictures referenced in the article (eg Pic1) so that you know what the separate pic relates to or do you prefer another method such as a short description with the picture ?

Mac

Mac

Whatever works for you. A description is always wanted for a picture and it can be supplied as the picture filename, as a list or inline with the text. People sometimes send me their suggested article layout which shows how the picture relates to the text, but I rarely manage to lay it on the page exactly the way the author suggests due to column breaks getting in the way.

Stuart