Mrs I Gillon 24 Victoria Avenue Milnathort
Tel: (01577) 864111
Hints and Tips on Submitting Items to the Newsletter
It would help us enormously if contributors could follow the suggestions below. We have a huge amount of material to turn around in a short space of time each month. Following the tips below will help us to avoid mistakes, make the best of contributed items and improve the look of the Newsletter.
All contributions
Give your name and phone number or e-mail address so that if we have any queries about your contribution, we can contact you.
Send your contribution in good time! If you already know what you want to say, please don't leave it right up to the deadline. We are very grateful to those who send their contributions early. They keep us sane. And we can make a better job of making their item look nice!
If you are contributing something for a club or organisation, please try to give contact details as part of your article, so new people can join or find out more about your organisation. There is little point telling people all about what you are doing if you don't want or need new members.
Size matters! If you are sending in news of your club or organisation, please try to keep it to less than 400 words. The longer your item, the more likely it is we will have to edit it for space reasons. It might be better if you choose how to keep it down to size.
Handwritten or 'Hard Copy' Typescript
Use a decent sized piece of paper! Little scraps are easily lost.
Leave a good margin all around.
Write or type on one side of the paper only.
Contributions sent by E-mail
If your contribution is more than just a few lines of text, please consider sending it as an attachment to your e-mail. This is especially useful if it contains information that needs to be laid out, such as results of a competition. It is easier to handle the text from an attachment.
We prefer attachments to be in Word (file name ending in ".doc") or in Rich Text Format (file name ending in ".rtf"). We may have difficulty reading other formats.
It would be fantastic if you could use Times New Roman in 11 pt!
We welcome photographs to illustrate items in the Newsletter, space permitting. If you have a photograph that you would like to accompany your contribution please send it to us as an attachment. We can’t promise to include it, but we will try our best to do so.
Letters
Supply your name and address. Letters will not be published unless the sender's name and address are supplied and they are prepared to have them published along with their letter. If you are sending a letter by e-mail, please give your "terrestrial" address as well.
Keep it polite and truthful! (and a reasonable size please ……)
