Parchment and Pen readers:

This is an opportunity for you to let your light shine here at the Parchment and Pen Blog. On Friday evening, we will post select submissions from you, our readers.

Rules:

Submissions must be 500-3000 words in length. There is room here, but don’t push it. Violations of this will be rejected.

Submissions must be posts that are original with you. No copyrighted material. Any violation of this will result in your privilege to submit being removed.

While you can promote your own blog, site, books, etc. please don’t make this the purpose of the post. If we sense that it is, then your submission will be immediately rejected.

Submissions must be irenic in tone, meaning that you are not disrespectful to any party. If you wish to engage and idea or person behind an idea, do so with great respect. Disagreements are welcome (you can even counter a P and P author), just do so with gentleness and respect.

Please understand that we will not chose all submissions, even if they do meet the guidelines. Yours may not be selected.

If you post on our blog, you will be responsible for responding to comments and keeping your post on track.

If you agree to adhere by these rules, this may prove to be a great opportunity for you and for us to benefit from your insights.

Submit your post in the lower left.

What can I do to make submission more likely to be posted?

Make your post original. If it seems to be a cut-and-paste from something else, we may give it less consideration.

Make your post clear. Clear, clear, clear. If it is hard to tell what your thesis is, we probably won’t post it.

Make sure that the need that your post addresses is clearly presented. If people don’t get what you are saying in the first few sentences, you won’t keep their attention. Use illustrations, statistics, quotes from others that demonstrate the problem/issue. This will create the “itch” before you proceed to scratch it. If there is no itch, people won’t scratch.

Don’t just post a bunch of Scripture. We can post that ourselves!

Make it provocative. This is what our people have come to expect. However, there is no need to go overboard with this.

Make sure that we don’t have to do extensive editing. I cannot even edit my own posts very well!

Posts that lack one or more of these qualities will be less likely to be chosen.

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