Contributing Articles to ComeAllWithin

By kwin
July 26 2002

Prof and I hope that the new season - just five weeks away - will see Come All Within become the prime venue for the widest possible cross section of Quins fans. The biggest determinant of the success is attracting contributions from as wide a number of people as possible...and yes that means you!

Monday 26th August is Week 1, and from that moment on - and throughout the season, all contributions are very welcome. There are lots of ways to contribute articles:

Match Reports

Every Monday following a game, we will aim to carry a match report. But, rather than write them all ourselves we'd prefer as wide a spread of reporters as possible. To encourage that this season: as well as the pure pleasure of seeing your words on-line, we have a carrot to offer - for each HOME game the club have promised to give is a Supporters' Reporter Press Pass. This pass should enable you to get into the post-match press conference, hear the views of the players, and steal TMJ's pencil.

ANYONE CAN WRITE A MATCH REPORT!   We're not looking for match reports written to compete with the Sunday papers (we've all read them the day before), and we're definitely not looking for a complete, factual, accurate account for the record (that's covered by the official site). Instead, what CAW is looking for is the fans eye view - and if you didn't really understand what that first penalty was for, and you missed a bit getting back from the bar, but you DO have a passionately held view about the ridiculous sin-binning which happened right in front of where you were sitting - well: that sounds like a good match report already...

Interested?  On the fixtures page we've added a column showing who has volunteered to write the match report....every blank on that list is crying out for a volunteer...

Photographs

We have no access to any picture library, and we can't publish any copyright pictures without permission, so CAW is totally reliant on our own resources. We're not aiming to have an extensive picture gallery on CAW (that's covered on the DG site) but we do need:

• action shots immediately after each game, to go with the match report. If you take a good one, and can email it to us on the Sunday, it will appear on Monday (now's the time to buy that digital zoom camera)
   
• player portraits: we'd like to build up a small library of clear pictures of individual players - taken on field or off - for use in profiles, articles, when they play well, or whenever they are in the news. If you take a good one (or have any already) please email it in.

All pictures will be fully credited to the photographer (unless you'd prefer not) and naturally you retain the copyright.

Articles

If you feel the urge to write an article - on any topic - just write it and email it in. It might be an opinion piece, a player profile, an encounter with Will Greenwood in Tesco, your personal observations, a report from the barbeque, whatever. If you want to make sure that no-one else is writing the same article at the same time, you can let us know in advance. 750 words is plenty long enough. Up to 2000 is manageable. 

Like to write but  stuck for an ideas?  Let us know - we generally have a long list of articles that need writing: For instance right now we might suggest: round up and analysis of our signings/releases and the squad we now have, preview (and reviews) of the friendly games, profiles of any player, away fans guide to the Stoop,  information about the amateurs and similar on the ladies (like how to join?) etc etc.

Regular Column

A really welcome contribution - and something that would make a real difference to CAW would be a regular column that we can rely on and plan around. It could be every week, every fortnight, perhaps just once a month. It can take any theme you like, serious funny, analytical, gossip.  Old Kwin tells us that from his experience last season: though it is a challenge to write to a deadline every week - it is also very rewarding.  If you have an idea / whim to write a regular column, drop kwin an email to discuss ideas

Match Previews

A particular volunteer is needed to write regular Match Previews. This is quite a hard job as it requires some knowledge of the opposition! But if you are up to it - or fancy writing it anyway.. or writing every other one......

If you've already volunteered

We'll be getting back to all of you, but no harm dropping me (kwin) an email to discuss.

Technical Details

You can submit an article in any format you like. MS Word  - or a straight email - is fine, in which case we'll do a bit of formatting for you as we put it up.

If you are a techie, and would like to use pictures, tables, links etc, then the best way to is to use a web-page editor and send the article in HTML. If this sounds like you, let me know and we can give you some help, advice and details on rules you need to follow to fit properly on the screen.