--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, I appreciate the kind words...I haven't thought of > submitting it but, hey, it's written anyways, so maybe I'll > clean it up a bit and give it a shot.
Definitely worth a try. It occurs to me that you'd need to shorten it significantly for the Times op-ed page, which will be tough, because the various parts of the tale are so nicely integrated. Op-eds are ideally about 650 words; your piece is about 1,870, but they *say* they'll consider pieces of any length. If you could get it down to 1,000 words, you might be OK--or they might end up cutting it down themselves. The Times gets HUGE numbers of op-ed submissions, BTW, so your chances just in general aren't high. Here's a link to their submission instructions (which contains links to a couple of helpful articles that go into more detail--but those articles are primarily focused on *opinion*-type pieces, which yours ain't). http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/opedsubmit.html The Times, of course, is by no means the only possibility, but you'll have to do a little electronic legwork to turn up others. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
