Liberty Forrest
2 min readMay 16, 2022

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Hi, Anne! Thanks so much for wanting to write for Shorties But Goodies! I've had a peek at your work and it's terrific! I've happily added you to SBG and look forward to your submissions.

A note about subtitles, they should not be in title case, but just standard capitalising at the beginning.

As for titles - that one just takes some practice! Think of how you can entice without giving away too much. How can you pull out the essence of the story in a way that will arouse curiosity? Also, headline analyzers love "This is how to..." or just "how to" or "Why (blah blah) causes (x) to happen" or "Why I ____ (and got x result)" - or listicles - "3 ways to (whatever)" and add words like "now" or "right now" or "immediately." Use words that imply urgency, or dramatic results.

You can google / youtube info on how to write compelling headlines and they'll help you figure it out. It's not an essential element for me to accept articles (many of them have terrible headlines) but great headlines improve your reads, and therefore, your earnings. So it's up to you!

You'll be tagged in articles I share on my other pub, Hope, Healing and Humour, because that's where I share anything that is or might be of interest to my pub writers.

There's the Tuesday "newsletterish" and also Sunday interviews of our Pub Family members by "Witchy" (you can learn more about her here: https://medium.com/the-witchy-one ) And there might be the odd other one - e.g. Witchy still has a handful of "Highly Questionable" Tarot readings to do for some of our Pub Family members who won her contest).

I'm looking forward to your submissions and please let me know if there's anything I can do to be of assistance as pub owner/editor :)

Welcome to our splendiferous Pub Family! Yay!

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Liberty Forrest
Liberty Forrest

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