[nabs-l] Update On Writing An Article For The Braille Monitor

[Chris Nusbaum]

Roanna and All,

As Roanna very kindly pointed out, I have recently written an article which was published in the June, 2013 issue of the Monitor. Like Darian, I found writing for the Monitor to be a wonderful opportunity and hope to contribute more in the future. In my experience, Gary Wunder (the Monitor's current editor) is very open-minded and genuinely enjoys hearing/reading the thoughts of all Federationists in the Monitor and otherwise. If he finds your article of interest and/or benefit to Monitor readers, he will most likely publish it. If he doesn't feel it can be published at this time, he may give you some tips on making your writing better. Gary is a very nice guy and one who I have been priveleged to get to know.

Though I've never written an article for the Slate, I have read many an issue and find it a great publication. This may be a good place to get your first article published as you work up to a publication with a wider readership such as the Monitor. As Darian mentioned, however, the Slate is geared toward blind students specifically. If you would like to write an article about the BELL Program from the perspective of how it benefited you as a student, the Slate might be the best magazine in which to publish it. However, if you are addressing your comments toward all Federationists with the hope that your story might inspire more blind people—both students and adults—to volunteer for the BELL Program, it might be best to send it to the Monitor. My advice would be to consider your audience and write your article first, deciding where to send it later. You could even send it to both publications; it may be published in both! All you can do is write it from your heart and send it on. I never thought my article (the first I had written for any NFB publication) would be ran in the Monitor, but I sent it anyway and it was. I hope these comments and suggestions help you as you write your article. If you need any further help, please feel free to write to me off-list. I look forward to reading your contribution in one of our magazines soon.

Good luck,

Chris Nusbaum

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> On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am on the student slate committee, and I have personally written an
> article about the Ohio Bell Program.  If you would like to contribute
> an article about the program held in Florida, you can contact me off
> list about it.
> 
>> On 3/12/14, Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Personally, I find that writing for the  monitor is a good thing to do if
>> you have the opportunity to do so.  What I mean by opportunity is primarily
>> that you have something of substance to contribute.
>> I've also found that writing for the Student Slate was a fun thing to do.
>> For those who don't know, the student slate is the Publication  the
>> National   Association of Blind STudents puts out.
>> It's very much a similar publication  to the braille monitor but  that the
>> slate obviously  has more of a student focus. To be  clear,  neither
>> publication competes with the other, but I might say that one has more of
>> specialized  focus  where as the other tries to have content reflective of
>> the general populous of the federation.
>>   if you find you are  experiencing writer's block (you don't quite know
>> what you want to write, it's perfectly fine to wait until you do  and
>> contact Gary at that point.
>>  good luck,
>> Darian .
>>> On Mar 12, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Roanna Baccchus <rbacchus228 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've seen other students such as chris Nusbaum write for the Monitor.  I
>>> think it would be really fun for me.
>>> 
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