How To Write for Shmeng
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Topics
· Beauty
Email: beauty at shmeng.com
Sometimes we see true beauty around us and need to share it with someone else. We would love a bit more beauty in all our lives
· Books
Email: books at shmeng.com
Read something particularly good that taught you something or made you laugh? Don’t send me book reports or I will send them back.
· Cult
Email: cult at shmeng.com
Cult updates and news go here. If you have to ask, then you don’t need to know.
· Drama
Email: drama at shmeng.com
Some things just can't be categorized any other way.
· Dreams
Email: dreams at shmeng.com
Did you have a dream and wonder what it means? Describe it here - Some of the people on this site are really good at translating dream imagery. You might be surprised.
· Entertainment
Email: entertainment at shmeng.com
Amusing personal anecdotes, instances of Kismet, fiction, and daydreams are all entertainment.
· Experiences
Email: experiences at shmeng.com
Things that have really happened to YOU and that you think are worth sharing with others. Leave out the random epiphanies. No really, it is hard to write them in a way that is meaningful to anyone else.
· Goth Stuff
Email: goth at shmeng.com
Duh. My black in blacker than your black and WIG and why Mansonites aren’t goth.
· Humor
Email: humor at shmeng.com
This should be self-explanatory as well, but remember things that were funny in person always come out well on paper.
· Icky People
Email: people at shmeng.com
When a walking ball of Shmeng invades your day and tries to smear themselves on you tell us about it here.
· Illustrations
Email: illustrations at shmeng.com
Illustrations are the kind of article that paints a picture and makes you feel like you're there
· Internet
Email: internet at shmeng.com
Internet and technology related subjects
· Music
Email: music at shmeng.com
Do NOT tell us about your new “band” and how you will be real good someday. Do NOT tell us about how cool your friend’s garage band is. DO tell us about that great show you saw, the way a song has changed you life or, if you want bettie to be nice to you, something about The Man in Black.
· News
Email: news at shmeng.com
Actual news and some personal news fit here. Are you moving to another country that has just been bombed by aliens? For real?
· Politics
Email: politics at shmeng.com
Politics can be the biggest source of Shmeng out of all of them
· Questions
Email: questions at shmeng.com
The meaning of life, love, liberty, and the word libidinous are all good questions, but they have all been used already. Ask us something interesting and we will answer
· Rant
Email: rant at shmeng.com
Every now and then, you NEED to get it out of your system. The pinhead that follows you around in the mall parking lot telling you the sky was falling and asking you out, The jerk that stole your wallet, your date, and your car, the boss from hell. You get the idea.
· Religion
Email: religion at shmeng.com
Do NOT tell us we are going to hell, that someone will save our souls for us if we sell it to them cheap, or as what faith/religion/spirituality all Goths are. I personally will feed your eyes to my pet iguana, even if I have to buy one first. Everything else is fair game.
· Shmeng of the Week
Email: week at shmeng.com
ickgirl's column
· Smut
Email: smut at shmeng.com
Real sex, fantasies, hopes, issues, and stories are all welcome. More than welcome, they are requested. DO NOT send me half-finished porn, reasons why you are saving yourself for true love, or why sex is bad. I will let my soon to be bought per iguana eat your kidneys.
· Theories
Email: theories at shmeng.com
We all have theories. Share yours and see what happens.
· Vibe
Email: vibe at shmeng.com
You will know if your article goes here.
· Wanted
Email: wanted at shmeng.com
DO NOT ask for a job, my iguana is always hungry.
· This Website
Email: website at shmeng.com
You will know if your article goes here. Actually I will know and put it here.
· Whining
Email: whining at shmeng.com
Sometimes you really need pity. The person that followed you around in the mall parking lot finally got you to go out with them and they ate the menu, humped the waiters leg, and stole your cell phone. Tell us about it here. So we can laugh at you for dating such a loser.
· Work
Email: work at shmeng.com
Very few things are as evil, sad, bad, and wrong as work. Shmeng everywhere you look. Share it with us here.
· Oogie Boogies
Email: oogies at shmeng.com
Are the things that go bump in the night getting on your nerves or answering your emails for you? Ask for help, comfort, or a ghosty-sitter here.
Columns
· Disillusion
Devin’s playground. Always worth reading. And re-reading.
· Drama
When someone tries to start drama on the site (see articles cat piss, and pic
stealing)
· Dream Analysis
"What does this dream mean"
· Feature
This category is for the articles that we consider to be really, really good.
Everyone should read ALL of these. The most recent ones show up in the "Featured
Articles" box on the main page.
· Fiction
It would seem that this should be a pretty self-explanatory section, but remember
fiction means a story, not just a lie. We toss out the lies.
· Humor
This should be self-explanatory as well, but remember things that were funny
in person always come out well on paper.
· Illustrations
Illustrations are the kind of article that paints a picture and makes you feel
like you're there
· Lemmings on Parade
Feralucce's Rants
· Multipost
When the inbox gets too full of stuff that's too annoying to publish, sometimes
the editors will put them all together and comment on them. You really don't
want your article to end up in one of these. By submitting your article to us,
you are giving us permission to publish it. If this is how we see fit to publish
it, don't be whining. If you don't want your article to end up multiposted,
read this whole page a few times and proofread repeatedly.
· Politics
For the occasional political rant or question.
· Preach
is for soapbox stuff
· Shmeng of the Week
This was ickgirl's column
· Tales from the Ick!
This was ickgirl's column
· Theories
We all have theories. Share yours and see what happens.
· Wanted
See above.
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