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Millennium Writing Style Guide...

by Garfield Lucas - Managing Editor

We have received loads of requests from people all over the world asking to post articles, features and stories on our site. So we thought that a Style Guide might be helpful for all you would-be electronic scribes...

• Writing style
  • Sentences should be short and sharp. Don't use a long word, if a short one will suffice.
  • Sentences should be spaced with two spaces. There should be one space after commas. Paragraphs generally consist of no more than three sentences, and are separated by one hard line break
  • We like a friendly warm style rather than a cold clinical one - and avoid jargon. If you must use jargon, then explain what it means.
• Readership
  • Though we have many UK and US readers, English is a second language for much of our readership. Consequently, we prefer International English rather than specifically colloquial British or American English.
  • Remember we have a potential readership of 120 million websurfers so check your facts before you submit an article!
• Subjects
  The New Millennium has a number of sections..
  • Fashion
  • Green
  • Lifestyle
  • News
  • Sport
  • Technical
  • Travel
  • And we're happy to tackle a new subject, if you can supply sufficient quality material to support it. Most of our editorial team is based within 100km of London, England. Most of our material tends to reflect this. However we are playing on a world stage and will accept copy from anywhere providing it meets our standards.
• Measurements
  We try to conform to ISO metric standard as far as possible.
• Racism
  We do not tolerate racism. Racist works will be rejected.
• Profanity
  Avoid using foul language if possible. Some service providers are very fussy about foul language, and might refuse to allow our site to go through their machines.
• Sexism
  Much of our main editorial team is female, and we accept there are differences between the sexes. However, we do not accept that one gender is overall superior to another, and overt sexism, in favour of either gender, will not be tolerated.
• Formats
  Submissions should be e-mailed either as ASCII text, or Word for Windows (either version 2, 6, 7 or 8)
• Pictures
  You should contact the editor mailbox for information regarding photographic formats. We prefer scanning directly from high quality 35mm slides or negatives.

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