How to Write for Sceneless

CLOSED!

Sceneless is officially closed for business and we're not accepting submissions anymore. Thanks for stopping by! ~Billy

The whole point of Sceneless is to participate. We want you to feel like this is a place where you can read AND write about music that you love. Sure, you can write about your favorite new record on your blog, that's great, but here you have the opportunity to be reading and writing amongst other people who also love music and are reading what you write and writing back to you. Sceneless is an online and interactive zine that you can be a part of.

If you've signed up for a Sceneless account to comment on articles, you're already halfway there (please, someone cue the Bon Jovi - "woaaah"). If you haven't yet gotten yourself a Sceneless account, go here to get that taken care of, and then come back.

Now that you've got that account, and you've got the burning passion to write about music, send an e-mail to [OMITTED] and ask us to activate your account for writing articles. Be sure to tell us who you are and why you want to write with us!

Shortly, we the Sceneless editors will read your e-mail, and then we will flip the bit on your account, making you an author, and we'll send you a message back letting you know.

Then, you should start seeing a 'create content' link. Go there to start writing your stories.

There's a process for writing articles on Sceneless and getting them published.
You write the story the way you think it ought to be. You might want to write it on your computer first, so that you can easily save and spell check it. Then when you are ready, enter the article and Submit it.

The article is now in the submission queue, where you can continue to work on it if you so desire. If you think the article is ready for publication, send another electronic mail to [OMITTED] to let us know that your article is ready for editing.

At that point the Sceneless Editors (currently myself and Adam) will check your article over for spelling errors, typos, fix any small problems, add hyperlinks, and either publish it right away to the front page or make any recommendations for tuning that we'd like you to address.

This process assumes that if you want to write for us, you'll take the time to write us a nice short note asking please. It also puts the onus on we the editors to ensure a certain level of quality in the articles that are submitted.

Copyright Stuff:

We're not difficult people. We think you should own your words. At the same
time, if you write something for our site, we'd like to know that you're not
going to set up us the bomb.

When you publish articles on Sceneless, the copyright remains your own, but you are granting us the right to reprint your article in whole or in part on this
site until the internets explode. Re-publishing your article somewhere else is
fine as long as you let them know that you've already granted us the right to
print your article.

Thanks and make the most of it,
Billy Gray
Sceneless Editors