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Updated and Bumped: Ambitious Writers, Here’s Your Opportunity

By: streiff (Diary)  |  August 2nd, 2012 at 06:45 PM  | 

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Update: Don’t sweat finding images. A good essay is more than sufficient.

As most of you know the RedState Gathering is underway. As my wife would not turn over the credit cards to me I’m still at home but most of the contributors are at The Gathering.

This presents the ambitious among you with an opportunity. The front page needs stories for the next three days. Post your best work, put FRONT PAGE in caps before the title (example FRONT PAGE Harry Reid Is A Pederast NTTAWWT), and if it is good enough I’ll promote you to the front page. My general screening criteria can be found here.

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  • jaykali

    I will just copy and paste a front page NYT story and add some snarky remarks at the end. Writing is so easy…

    • streiff

      but if you feel compelled, go ahead.

      • jaykali

        Not really. But I am interested to see what user-submitted quality will look like. Acat I am looking at you buddy!

        • acat

          One of these days, maybe I’ll find a topic for it….

          Mew

        • SoFiMil

          I was thinking the exact same thing as I read the diary. Maybe it’s a sign?
          \\..// \\..//

  • lineholder

    I don’t necessarily fit into the “ambitious writer” category, but I’ve been considering writing a diary about the upcoming primary care doctor shortage. This subject is getting some publicity from the left, but it’s more in the context of “why we need to raise taxes”. Lack of revenues aren’t the root cause of this problem High medical school costs in correlation to reimbursement rates for GPs is the underlying problem.

    In light of that shortage, being guaranteed health insurance isn’t even remotely going to equate to gaining access to health care.

    When it comes to providing alternatives is where it gets complicated, streiff.
    We do have other options, but explaining them means going into some detail.

    I really would like for us to find a way to draw more attention to this situation. The offer you’re making might be a way to do it.

    Any suggestions on length of this?

    And where are the instructions about posting images? I’ve looked for them a few times, but couldn’t find them.

    • acat
      • lineholder

        ,

      • rightlane1111

        here is my problem. I post on a Conservative Chatboard. I think that their html commands are built in because all I have to do it copy and paste. Now…if I go to my word program…I have to put in the html commands for a link….Guess what they work perfectly. If I go to my blog and use wordpress…they work perfectly. Are some people exempt from posting links? Because that is the ONLY thing I can figure out.

        I had a real good link to post concerning regulations…and it was on topic…could not get it to come up. So…I wrote Redstate…used their e-mail…even demonstrated that I could use their link button just fine…but here…I cannot get ANY RESULTS. I have read every html site there is on the web…same instructions as is posted on RedState…but for some reason…this site will not take the instruction. Oh…Kitty…I proof and reproof the commands. Maybe Streiff has the solution as to why it works on other sites???

        • acat

          (pointy bits will mess up the below example, so using curvy bits ( and ) instead….)

          (a href=”http://www.unlikelyvoter.com”) a fun little web site (/a)

          Works for me every time.

          (replaces curvy bits with pointy bits)

          a fun little web site

          If that doesn’t work, then .. yeah. You’ll need to persuade The Management to take a closer look at your account.

          Mew

        • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

          is to put this before your link…

          <a href="

          • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

            “>here

            exactly as written, quotation marks and all.

            Replace the word “here” with whatever you want to name your link.

            I use Flickr to post images.

          • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

            Add this

            after the word here.

            Sorry. I may have confused you more than I helped, but I tried once before to explain this and you post the entire cheat code, it works like a link, and you can’t see the code.

            I know so little about HTML that the rest of the code I wrote above may not even show up. Send me an email at “warbington3 @ att.net” without the space, and I’ll email you my cheat sheet if you want.

          • rightlane1111

            I tried to put in the youtube address….but my computer says that there is something wrong with the server……NO…NO there is not…this is information that has not gotten into the media…and it is legit.

            If ones goes to www.youtube.com/ and searchs for (in all lower case) general motors is becoming china motors you will be shocked. Oh…not some gossip thing either…it’s the real deal.

            I was waiting for Obama to throw his union buddies under the bus as well as the USA…and right here is the proof positive. This is terrible and these people in Detroit…and any other manufacturing plant better find out why their jobs ARE REALLY going away.

            This was wiped off the internet via the click on…which worked…but no surprise. Oh well, maybe my blog people will be willing to do a search on youtube because even if I copy and paste…what use to come up…does not any longer.

  • http://teresainfortworth.wordpress.com/ Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

    I’m still wet behind the ears when it comes to blogging…..

    Also, the “Front Page” thingie –
    What if an ambitious blogger is really shy and doesn’t want to seem too full of themself?

    Can we e-mail it to you in private and get the “rejection letter” where nobody else will see it?

    • westcoastpatriette

      about not wanting everyone to know I wanted my diary to be considered for the front page but I never would have said it out loud.

      With respect to your question about subtitles, if you go to the link streiff provided, there is a detailed explanation in the comments section for how to do subtitles.

      • http://teresainfortworth.wordpress.com/ Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

        I only read the article; didn’t get as far as the comments…..

        *hangs head in shame*

        • westcoastpatriette

          I’m just curious by nature (or just plain nosy sometimes.)

      • http://teresainfortworth.wordpress.com/ Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

        It has an “All-in-One SEO Editor” with a Title, Description, and Keywords line options.

        Is the “Description” line the same thing as the Subtitle line?

        • westcoastpatriette

          I can’t even find the text editor.

        • checkmate2012

          I just get “is_featured” in the Custom Field area. I tried the SEO title and it didn’t work either. I’m a rookie and may not get to insert a subtitle!!

      • kipling

        You have written some good stuff in the past and you should pursue the front page opportunity. Be of good cheer and be bold!

    • kipling

      You have written some good solid diaries and I encourage you to pursue this opportunity. Be bold sister!

      • http://teresainfortworth.wordpress.com/ Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

        I tweeted streiff, and he accepted one of my posts – it “drops” tomorrow night at 10 pm.

        Don’t get your hopes up, though – it’s a silly bit of fluff. It’s hot, I’m tired of fighting liberals, and I wanted to do something fun.

        I figured it was time for a break….. :P

        • mikeymike143

          you know she was one that put together the tea party coalition that united behind richard mourdock in the lugar race.

          and she introduced rand paul onstage this weekend onstage at glenn becks restoring love event. she was there in texas supporting cruz in the primary.

          i really admire her activism, she is the ”real deal” when it comes to tea partiers. you can ask anyone in indiana about her.

          and i know my writing is not front page diary material so i am not concerned about that.

          • kipling

            You might want to try a video interview like those done by some of our commentators for CPAC and the RedState Gathering.

  • alaskaescapeartist

    I am confused on the preferred method of showing the transcript of a video clip. Should the text be in the post itself, or somehow linked?

    • streiff

      located under the video and placed in blockquotes.

      • alaskaescapeartist

        nt

  • westcoastpatriette

    I’m going to see if this works.

    Please see the following: here

    • westcoastpatriette

      I just followed your instructions above and it worked. Finally.

      • westcoastpatriette

        does this work when writing diaries, too?

        • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

          I’ve written diaries both ways – straight into create a diary on the site or cut and pasted text and then cleaned it up. There always seems to be a couple of things I can’t get to work right using redstate’s built-in codes (hyperlinks being one), so I resort to my cheat sheet (will email it to you). I always preview and look for errors to correct.

          One thing that always happens is when I post an image in a diary, part of the code appears in whatever I’ve named it. So far, I’ve just ignored it and hope any readers will as well.

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