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Thanet Star - actively improving Thanet one idea at a time

How to write for us

Guest writing is a great way to test the blogging waters or to promote your blog to a larger audience. Your post, if published, would have a short introduction from the editor before and the chance to tell the world a bit about yourself after.

What is needed

There are a couple of common sense guidlines which need to be stated for clarity however if you have a good reason for deviating from them then do so - we can always talk about it once you have written the post.

A guest post should have at least three paragraphs of, ideally, three sentences as a minimum with no maximum size. Extremely large posts may be edited for size or serialised over a number of posts.

You may use HTML if you like but it is not necessary if you'd rather not. HTML free posts should have a clear line between paragraphs for easy reading.

Please write at least a sentance or two about yourself and link to your own homepage, blog, myspace profile, facebook page or whatever else you'd like to share. Readers may want to know more about you and if you have written more - especially if what you wrote went down well.

What we'd rather not see

We'd rather not see adverts or personal attacks. Use your head and you should be fine. Feel free to disagree with Thanet Star content (especially if stated clearly) but keep to the facts and we'll all be cool.

Great article topics

Here are some topics that might be particularly good for writing about. don't let this list in any way limit you though.

• News stories about Thanet
• Commentary on news and events within or effecting Thanet
• Your reactions to political events
• Your opinion on developments
• A review of a local product of service
• An introduction to a topic such as local bird spotting or a lessor known club

How to get it to us.

The quickest way is to copy and paste your article into Matt's contact form or you can email Matt