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Our sports need your news please!

Yes! I am on my appealing quest for news yet again, which
will be ongoing. A number of people over the years have said they
do not have the courage to write an article or report but everyone can
be assured that anything I get is spell and grammar checked, so there
is no embarrassment. Indeed, over the 27+ years I printed the maga-
zine, I had to check all of my work, which is now an ever more important
necessity with my developing Dyslexia.
One correspondent said

Your Sport “Before I started to write for my club,
Needs your the only thing I had ever written
News
before was a shopping list.”

And I would have to say that fits me to a “T” also. As a publishing any-
thing, I am not looking for the Magna Carta, or anyone’s life story, just the story of your club’s event
or triumph. I need the who, what, where and when. Whether you write it or leave it to me but the fol-
lowing are the essentials:-
1) Christian or first names and surnames of course.

2) The scorecards from quarter finals onwards, scanned or photographed or
posted OR just the final. The late and much missed Michael O’Shaughnessy to
send his finals results as 1-0, 2-0, 2-2, and so on, thus no need for the cards. With-
out Michael, just silence from the Cork Zone.

3) The name of the event.
4) A photo of the winners and runner(s)-up etc. either together or in separate
photos, with who’s who in the photos. And please do not have words or signs etc.
growing out of people’s heads, unless you can’t avoid it. Any light from a window
should be on their faces and not behind them etc. etc. DO NOT MESS WITH PHO-
TOS, LEAVE IT TO ME PLEASE.

5) I must have a good story with maximum details as I will
not include a photo without them, unless it is part of a
larger article.

If you look at the magazines website www.indoor bowler.com there is an
icon that brings up a help sheet on writing for the magazine. Also, look
at other articles and see how they are written and the details they have
included.
However, in many instances over the years, I have ghost written
many articles or stories AND added their names as the authors as after
all, they have supplied the details. Please supply all the necessary details as listed above and as
many extra details as you can think of.
Quite often I have contacted people for additional details. No matter
which way you submit something, I can send a pdf file which most
people can open and even print, for them to view and check the final
article. Go for it!
If you want to chat about it you can call me on 0121
318 7727 which will catch me wherever I am in the World
or email me bob@indoorbowler.com.
There are hundreds of club and open competitions every season,
so why not show what your club is doing for the sport you play. There
are also a lot of charity events. Let’s hear about them?