About Inditerdot Com
Inditer dot Com was founded in 1994. It's sole mandate is to present a web presence for new writers and artists.
It is often very difficult for the new writer or artist to find a publisher, agent or gallery which will display that person's work. Because of the high calibre of many of Inditer dot Com artists, we find that more and more, publishers and agents are scanning our pages, looking for new talent.
Inditerdot Com does not charge the writer or artist for posting work, nor does The Inditer pay for work posted on it's site. The entire cost of running Inditer dot Com, the Domain fees paid to Internic, the Virtual Domain Hosting fees paid to the ISP, the maintenance and up-grading of equipment and software, plus other day to day expenses required to operate are borne by the editor in the belief that ultimately some of the contributors to Inditer dot Com will be helped by having this free show-case.
Inditer dot Com is privately owned, operated and funded.
Submissions to Inditer dot Com Inditer dot Com likes to publish an introductory page for all authors. With your submission, please send a bit of biographical information. Your full name, where you live, your occupation - trade - school. Included things such as likes, dislikes, goals, aims, ambitions. What are your pass-times, hobbies, recreation activities. We would also like to have your age, if it does not bother you to send it. A small head and shoulders picture would be nice too, but not mandatory. Please also include a one or two line personal philosophy. Sending this information with your submission will greatly speed the processing and posting of your work. Manuscripts, essays, columns, poetry dealing with fiction, non-fiction, science-fiction, commentary....political or social, will be considered. Manuscripts should be sent as part of the body of Email. If attachments are to be used, please be certain they are saved in a universal format such as .txt, (DOS or ASCII) which can be opened by any word processor. Please do not format your submission in any way. Formatting a text, such as changing fonts, font color, using italic or bold cannot be handled, as it will not smoothly be copied and pasted into the html page for posting. Notify the editor well in advance of emailing attachments. If graphics such as pictures of painting, or photos or other pictures to illustrate a story are to be sent, be certain to transmit them in .jpg or .gif format. Do not send extra large pictures. Please reduce the size of exrtra large graphics before they are sent as email attachment. If you are in any doubt as to how to send your material, please email the editor and ask for instructions, or copy and paste (without formatting) your written work directly into the body of your email. If it is more than one piece of e-mail will allow, break it up into two or three mailings. In the case of an artist or photographer sending work for posting, be certain to send a full description of each picture.We would also like to see humour and satire. Poetry will be also be considered. We are eager to see editorial comment, humor and/or comment or critique on other work seen in The Inditer. Inditer dot Com maintains a "critique page" and encourages participants to comment or critique on the work of their fellow artists within Inditer dot Com.
It has been our experience that pieces of more than 1000 words will not be read as often or as thoroughly as shorter works. There is no limit on the length of writing accepted, but generally, short pieces are preferred. Some of the longer works published by Inditer dot Com have been broken down into three or four sections, or some have been serialized.
Inditer dot Comwill not consider publishing pornography or smut. Rules of good taste apply. Profanity will not be edited or censored if it is used in the context of portraying an event or character. Profanity for the sake of shock value will not be published. We do not censor or edit material...it is published as received, so must be written with a sense of good taste.
Submit to: editor@inditer.com
E-Mail - This is a Public Service from Inditer dot Com Again, because of the havoc caused by hackers, viruses are a major concern. Inditer dot Com, like many other responsible websites, will take extra precaution in opening unsolicited e-mail. As mentioned in our submission guidelines, we prefer that you send your submissions in the body of the email. We do not want formatted material, as it simply has to be un-formatted and put into html before it is posted. Highlight, then copy your submission, paste it into the body of the email. If you MUST send your submission as an attachment, be absolutely certain that you notify The Inditer prior to sending it, and by using a very short file name in the subject line. If you send an attachment, if your name is Jane Doe, use a file name like JD2.txt, then notify us that this file is coming as an attachment. If we do not know who the sender is, and if the attachment is not clearly marked in the subject line and if we have not been notified in advance that your submission is coming that way, for now, attachments WILL NOT BE OPENED. It is to your advantage to follow these instructions. If un-announced attachments are sent, they will be discarded!In an effort to cut down on spam...unwanted e-mail...please discourage it in any way you can. Where-ever possible, have yourself removed from mailing lists, complain to the ISP's who are permitting these mass mailings. If we do not do something volunlarily to curtail the abuse of e-mail, it is an almost certainty that some government level will impose restrictions, regulations or taxation. We do not want the internet to be taxed or regulated. It is up to the individual to use e-mail responsibly and to discourage 'spam' mailings at every opportunity.
More about Email from Sam Person
Email has become so popular and enjoys such widespread use, that it is safe to assume that it may well be the greatest thing since sliced bread and similar evolutionary developments that we have witnessed in this millennium.
So much is this the case that I fear that many of those who utilize email, seemingly without end, misuse it. In this connection, I do not refer to serious applications, but rather to email access by all kinds of people with time on their hands and nothing better to do.
Needless to say, email has provided a communication mode that enables friends to contact friends, and, indeed, has opened great possibilities for parents and children to “be in touch.” After all, its fast, it’s cheap, and it’s easy. Even greeting cards are free.
While there is all sort of junk email selling one thing or another, there are a couple of things that irritate me about email even more.
First, there are the jokes that find their way through cyberspace, whether you want to read them or not. They are not funny, something I say without even knowing what they tend to be about. You see, I categorically refuse to open any messages that contain jokes; rather I delete them immediately. Why, you ask, would I do that? Simply put, jokes breed jokes, and there is no end to the time you will waste if you get into “joke exchanging” contests with others. Besides, the people who are sending jokes should not be encouraged. I suspect that a good number of the stories they want to share are old, not funny (literally), and indeed, may border on the obscene.
Of greater irritation is the occasional “crusade” that gets email abusers off and running. To wit, a rumor will start that the Congress, or the Federal Communications Commission (or some other agency) has a plan afoot to place a charge on every email message sent. Once this base canard starts, I will receive emails telling me to contact the FCC immediately. My response to people who send me such unfounded dribble is that I will do them a favor and NOT write to the FCC. I explain that if I did write, it would be to encourage the placing of a minor fee on email, which, after all, is ridiculously inexpensive. Now, before we get carried away, I do not suggest more than a few mills or so per message.
Not that I have money to burn, you understand. Rather, I think that abuse of email needs to cease before very serious controls are placed on its use.
In defense of email, I will say that it did not replace the handwritten notes among correspondents that were popular in a bygone age. That manner of expression disappeared long before email; its demise came with the advent of the typewriter, and, indeed, the computer.
E-Mail Courtesy
- E-mail is not as private as you might thing - or wish. If you wouldn't broadcast your plans to take over your boss's job through an office fax, think twice about committing it to e-mail.
- Remember to be polite. Distance doesn't excuse ill manners. And don't resort to the cyber-equivalent of shouting - that is WRITING EVERYTHING IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
- Not everyone on your e-mail list will be enthralled to get copies of the latest jokes you've found on the Net. Spare your friends and colleagues your own version of spam - that is flooding their mail-boxes with cyber-junk mail.
- Less is more when it comes to e-mail. Loquacious writers should remember it's harder to read a computer screen than a piece of paper, so don't run on. Don't overwhelm the recipient with too much information in one message, unless of course, it's your mother, in which case she's likely your only reader who will appreciate every word.
- Break up your message with points and paragraphs so it's easier to read.
- Don't use fancy fonts, colors, dingbats or other meaningless additions to email. State your message clearly and succinctly. Fancy additions to E-mail often slow it, and in some cases, where older equipment is being used, the recipient will not be able to download it at all.
- Fill the subject field on the header of your e-mail. And remember cutesy or obscure subject lines make it tougher for the recipient who may be trying to sort and file e-mail. It really helps as well if the recipient is trying to locate a message from a mass of files.
- Don't assume simply because someone has e-mail that they actually read it. We know people who don't check e-mail for days and weeks; others who log on every five minutes to get their fix. Cyber technology is not always the perfect answer; you may have to resort to a phone call.
- If you want someone other than the recipient to get the information in-your e-mail without having to respond, put them in the cc line, instead of among recipients, so they know no reply is expected.
- Answering e-mail, particularly for the really overburdened types who may get hundreds of messages a day is a tricky proposition. Deal with the time and volume dilemma by avoiding unnecessary responses and for messages that demand an answer, let the sender know you received the message and will answer more fully later if you can't give a complete answer now.
- Remember that attachments can take a long time to download, particularly if the recipient is on the road and only has a low-speed source of access to the Internet. If your boss is trying to download e-mail quickly, he or she won't thank you for sending a humongous and unnecessary file that holds everything else up.
- Make sure you have a virus checker that's up-to-date, make sure you use it.
- Don't rush your writing. Use an automatic spell checker to take care of the worst mistakes and always take time to reread what you have written. If you are unsure of what you're sending, either because you've fired it off in anger (or ignorance), leave it in your out basket but don't hit the send button until you've had time for sober second thought.