--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > 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. >
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