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 First published October 12th 2007 - 9 months ago
Wanna contribute? Are your dreaming of having your fly pattern, your fishing pictures, your fly fishing stories, your DIY-project published on the web? Well, here's the chance. GFF is looking for contributors.
Write for us That's why we appeal to you – our readers – to contribute to the site. Let us tap in on your creativity, your ideas and your time. Share with your fellow readers. Write something for The Global FlyFisher! It's not that difficult. Even though we hold high standards, we love originality a lot more than professionalism, and you need not have any previous experience in writing. It's a benefit if you master written English at a reasonable level and an ability to shoot some decent photos, draw or paint isn't too bad either. That doesn't mean that pros are not welcome. On the opposite! We would love to have material from you people who write for a living, or at least earn money from it. As long as you don't expect us to pay you. We haven't paid anybody yet in the ten year history of The Global FlyFisher, and we don't intend to start now. What we need We need anything that's fly fishing related. If you'd like to read it, there are probably others who would too. The most popular stuff we publish is the fly patterns. They draw a lot of hits, and we always welcome good patterns, and if you have a surefire pattern to share, here's the chance. But other types of material is very welcome too. You can see from our different main sections how we group things:
- Tiebetter: things that improve the reader's fly tying - Fishbetter: things that improve the reader's fishing skills or equipment, how to's - Gallery: anything with images - Reports: stories from fishing trips, where to's - Global: where to's, International fishing, travel tips - Rod building: anything related to building and maintaining rods - Reviews: stuff you liked or disliked and why We have lots of material that traverses these sections, so don't worry about it. We can easily have an article appear in more than one section. Original and unpublished We only want original material that you have created and have the the copyright to. And we don't want material that has already been published on the web or in print. We do make an exception for this rule when it regards translated material. If you have published something in your own non-english tongue, we would love to see it translated to English and published here.
Dot down a few words about your idea and mail them off to me (Martin – martin@globalflyfisher.com). Once we agree on publishing your article, start gathering material and writing the text. I usually recommend looking at the illustrations first, because most manuscripts we guess have great text but not that great illustrations. As you know from the site, we like lots of good images and drawings, and we'd like your contribution to have lots of great illustrations. Get photos and drawings in as good a quality as you can. We can easily handle originals straight out of a camera. Please don't do too much to them before mailing them off. Write the text in a plain word processor or text editor, and don't do too much layout! Please don't paste the images into the text or set the whole thing up in columns and fancy fonts. Plain text is the best with bold and italics where relevant. Write links as full URL's in parentheses next to the link text. Mark the locations of the images and illustrations by writing the name of the file and a caption right where you want it to go in the text. The process We will do all the practical editing and layout of the text and scaling of the images. The less you have done, the easier for us. Our system will provide clickable thumbprints and make sure the whole thing ends up looking nice and be as readable as possible. You will get a link to the unpublished article and get a chance to review it before it's put online. Your name will be the byline and also in the top of the image, and the material will remain yours. We don't own it because you publish it here.
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