Readers' Tips

READERS' TIPS

A message I have heard over and again since taking up the role of Editor of MEW is that readers want to see more short, practical tips.

From Issue 215 I plan to run a regular feature with tips from readers. As tips are typically rather short, it isn't practical to pay for them like articles, but I'd like to offer an incentive to send in tips.

I'm delighted to announce that the well known engineering suppliers Chester UK have stepped up to offer £30 in gift vouchers to each month's 'Top Tip'.

Email your simple workshop tips to me, Neil Wyatt, [email protected] marking them 'Readers Tips', and you could be a winner. Try to keep your tip to no more than 400 words and a picture or drawing. Every month I'll chose a selection for publication and the one chosen as 'Tip of the Month' will win £30 in gift vouchers from Chester Machine Tools. Visit www.chestermachinetools.com to plan how to spend yours!

There is only a short time to enter a tip for Issue 215, so what ae you waiting for!

PLEASE! Don't put your tips in this thread, only entries by email will be accepted.

Neil

No more than one prize with a value of £30 will be given each month. By entering you agree your entry can be freely published and republished MyTimeMedia on paper or electronically and may be edited before appearing. You will be acknowledged as the author of the tip. There is no guarantee that any entry will be published and if no publishable tips are received a prize will not be awarded. The decision of the editor is final.

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 11/03/2014 19:54:53

This seems like a good idea - except that we would be giving up our copyright even if our tip was not used. So, anyone with a useful collection of tips might hold back in case he might find a better outcome as a collection made into a full-blown article or booklet, etc. Or she, of course.

And people might also hold back on the 'only one prize per month' principle, and certainly not send in more than one tip at a time.

Its up to you, of course.

Cheers, Tim

Sorry Tim don't agree with you on the "one prize per month and only send one tip in"

Do you only buy one lottery ticket ? I know you are going to tell me you don't buy lottery tickets but you get the idea, more tips more chance you have of winning something.

Copyright on a tip ? You are having a giraffe ?

I'm also sure that Neil will keep some tips over for a later issue rather than just pick from whats been received in one month otherwise you risk having to fill the mag with poor tips to try and fill the page if its been a slack month for submissions.

J

Edited By jason udall on 11/03/2014 18:40:17

People already send tips in for free to the letters page. I want more tips and I thought this would be the best way to reward the effort.

> I for one might find a submission to this less intimidating than a conventional article.

And yes, I hope this is a way for a lot more readers to get something in print.

Neil