How do amateur writers submit articles to newspapers and periodicals?

I have been engaged in the editing and creation of publications, photography, art, calligraphy and seal cutting for a long time. I have read and compiled a large number of such manuscripts, many of which were submitted by amateur authors. I have discovered some sexist issues and feel that they urgently need to be brought to light. Pay attention to. Now I will only talk about the common sense issues of this type of submission, combined with my own experience, to communicate with fellow amateur writers, and talk about how to submit articles to newspapers and periodicals. 1. The concept of the work must be correct. The idea is the theme. When you pick up a pen, operate a knife, or pick up a camera to create a work, you must first understand the purpose of the creation, that is, why you are creating it, who you are creating it for, what the work is going to express, and how it is going to be expressed. The style of the works should be positive, healthy and elegant, advocate scientific progress, and oppose superstition and vulgar taste. It is important to seek novelty and change in subject matter, genre, and creativity. Do not imitate or copy. When designing and composition, you should try to avoid the same content or style that has been published in reading materials. Instead, you should find a new approach, with novel ideas, clever ideas, and unique interest. , the perspective is different and the style is strange. Readability and freshness are always the magic weapons for a work to win. 2. Explain clearly. The handwriting of the manuscript should be clear, and the necessary narratives should be concise and clear. In order for readers to understand, some works should be accompanied by necessary annotations, such as seal characters and cursive characters involved in calligraphy and seal cutting works. Texts that ordinary editors or readers may not recognize or understand must be clearly annotated. Some annotations can also be used as attachments, clearly written directly on the calligraphy work in regular script. Explanatory text and author information should not only be written on the back of the work, but should also be written clearly on a separate sheet for editing, printing and typesetting, and payment of royalties. Don't ask your editor to transcribe these communications or captions for you again. It should be noted that seeing, understanding and then appreciating is a prerequisite for all visual aesthetic activities. Any photographic work, whether it is a single image, a group photo, or an article with pictures, that involves people or things, must indicate who is photographed in the photo, and which row in the picture is the subject from the left or right. Characters, you reflect what happened when, what year, month, day and where it was taken. Even if it is a portrait or landscape work, you should not just write a few-word title, but also write down the shooting location, time and other detailed background information on the manuscript for the editor's reference. Photographic works, of course, mainly rely on the momentary image language presented on the screen to speak, but this alone is far from enough. When readers appreciate works, they no longer only need to satisfy the pleasure brought to the eyeballs by the pictures, but also want to learn as much relevant information, humanistic and geographical knowledge as possible. The picture "Black Dragon Pond Scenery" taken by an author in Tongling, Anhui Province is very good. Unfortunately, there is no other content on the manuscript except a 5-word title, making it unclear where and what year the "Black Dragon Pond" is (with details). There are several places with this place name in Beijing alone). As a result, it not only lost the opportunity to be used as a cover photo in "Elderly's World", but also lost the possibility of participating in the "Scenery from Various Countries in the Motherland" panel. I hope everyone can learn from this lesson. There are many people who only write a few words of empty titles on photography submissions, but do not include specific content such as the shooting location, time, people and their identities, facts and background. This is what causes the editor the most headache and distress, and the reader the most dissatisfaction. In fact, writing titles is the strength and specialty of editors. It is necessary for authors to name their works and create their own titles, but these are often inaccurate, lack clear and vivid titles, and many titles are modified or replaced by editors. What is most needed is for the author to write down explanatory text with specific facts and detailed content. However, this is something that even a clever editor cannot think of or compile. It all depends on the author taking notes and providing clarity. At present, some photography exhibitions or newspapers and albums delete the descriptions of photographic works until only dry and empty titles are left without relevant content descriptions. This ignores the readers' comprehensive needs for appreciation and knowledge-seeking, and has become a symbol of photographic works. Common problem. For the photographic works previously published in the monthly magazine "Old Man's World", those with only titles and no specific descriptions were almost always not included in the submissions, which is really helpless. Ultimately, it shows that the author is not serving his readers well enough. It should be noted that what the author himself understands may not be understood by others, so explanatory text is needed. Readers may have noticed that the large-scale works recently used on the front and back covers of "Elderly's World" all have explanatory text indicating the specific shooting location and time. If there is no specific explanatory text, this journal will not use it or use it sparingly, or at best prepare it as a collection of photos to be used when a certain topic is assembled. 3. Pay attention to timeliness. The works photographed or created should be recent and fresh things, and documentary news pictures should be of recent events. Some works of photography, painting, writing, and seal cutting specially created for important anniversaries or major events must be planned in advance and sent out as early as possible. Because newspaper work, like any work, also has its operating cycle. Each issue of a journal takes about one and a half or even two to three months, from the editor's selection of manuscripts to the chief editor's approval, from art design to typesetting and proofreading, to plate making and printing by the printing factory, and publication and distribution. If you don't understand these conditions, it will be easy for your work to become a "gone flower" that is not timely and regrettable. 4. Handle it carefully. It is not easy for amateur authors to create a work that they are satisfied with, and it must be cherished. For large-scale calligraphy and painting works, it is best to send clear 5-6-inch photos, rather than originals. Your work and its attachments should be labeled one by one, and all relevant information such as the name of the author and the time of creation should be written clearly.

This prevents you from submitting a batch of works that are connected to one paper (such as several seal cuttings, graphics, or group photos or paintings on one paper) that are split up and adopted in installments. This will cause trouble due to incomplete information, leading to errors or rejections. The most common temper among editors is that they welcome works that are written as clearly as possible and are easy to review and compile, and they are tired of things that are careless, careless, confusing, unclear or even need to be "deciphered". Authors are also reminded that it is best to use their real names when publishing works, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble when they go to the post office to collect royalties due to name differences in the future. In a word, you must be thoughtful and responsible for the manuscripts you submit. 5. The author’s correspondence address should be clear and detailed. You must write down your postal code, preferably your phone number and posting time, so that the editor can obtain accurate information when processing a large number of submissions accumulated over a long period of time and making repeated selections. Works of the same quality often rise and fall in the editor's selection process. Works with comprehensive information, flexible gathering and dispersion, and ease of use are more competitive. Furthermore, the author should not use pencil when writing any information text. If an address is involved, the name of the province or city to which it belongs should be written. 6. Be targeted. Nowadays, there are many newspapers and periodicals, each with its own business attributes. If your work is submitted to irrelevant newspapers, periodicals or columns, it will be difficult for it to be adopted. Even if the manuscript is not in the correct column, it will disappear like a mud cow into the sea without a trace. To this end, you should learn more about and observe the newspapers, periodicals, and columns to which you intend to submit articles, and understand their methods and rules for using articles to avoid blindness. Only when submissions are highly targeted can the selection rate be increased. 7. Be brave enough to submit articles to newspapers and periodicals, but do not submit multiple articles, stage your work, make fraud or even plagiarize. Every newspaper and periodical hopes for excellent exclusive works, and does not want to re-publish something that has been published by others due to negligence; newspapers and periodicals generally have a deadline of three months, and often due to small manpower and inability to reject manuscripts one by one in time, the author should keep After this period has passed and the work has not been adopted, you can submit another copy. The common sense discussed above are basically the submission requirements for the monthly magazine "Elderly World" and are only for reference by photography, art, calligraphy and seal cutting authors who want to contribute to it. As for the common sense for submission of article-type works, it is similar to this and will not be described again.