Just follow these simple steps!
- Pitch your article to toby@numundo.org
- Once approved, put your piece into a googledoc and share the doc with toby@numundo.org and sara@numundo.org.
- Include all photos (high res, which you own the rights to) in the document, AND send by email attachment to toby@numundo.org.
- Once you have shared your article with us, our editor, will review it, and suggest revisions if needed. We will ask you to amend the article based on any suggested edits before proceeding.
- Once you have made your edits, send the article back to us letting us know that you’ve made the edits. If no further edits need to be made, we will publish it on our blog!
Do’s & Dont’s
- #1 – Provide VALUE to the reader.
- Ideas for writing angles: specific radical transformation stories, experiences visiting impact centers, taking courses, attending transformational events, working on meaningful social or permaculture projects, eco-techniques, exchanging with indigenous communities, how to’s, lists (ex. “Ten reasons why…,”)
- Use as many sections with titles, and bullet points to make your article easiest for the reader to digest.
- Start your blog post in a way that will keep readers wanting to read. Perhaps it is funny, interesting, exciting, or piques their interest.
- Use active voice wherever possible.
- Draw meaningful conclusions and discuss ideas and motivations.
- Use specific examples to illustrate what you’re saying.
- Reflect on 1-2 specific themes that kept coming up for you during the experience. Use these themes to guide your writing and reflect on larger issues instead of documenting every moment of the journey like a travelogue.
- Use specific examples from your experience to support your statements.
- Talk about your specific experience. At the end, if you want to relate your experience to the larger community or encourage others to try something similar, go for it.
- Include resources for our readers. (ex: This is why my yoga retreat was amazing. Here is why everyone should try a yoga retreat. Here are the some things to look out for when choosing a yoga retreat.)
- Write a title that draws the reader in to want to open the article.
- Avoid using words in a context that some people would not understand. Examples: “offerings, gifts, intention, diving deeper, etc”. Use clear language that anyone can understand.
- Avoid use of slang: awesome, epic, heart-opening, etc. Find a better way to communicate your ideas or feelings specifically.
- If you want to discuss plant medicines, or anything that would be considered controversial please be tactical in the way that it is and your will make sure the context is appropriate.
- Watch for run on sentences. If you are not sure, start a new sentence. Keep it simple and clear. Use good paragraph structure, large block of text are intimidating to readers.
- Make it as concise as possible. Be detailed, but keep it short. On average, an article should run around 600 min and 1000 max words.
- Focus on outcomes and results of transformational experiences, rather than describing the experience, leave out step by step process.
- Include personal narrative, but don’t let it get in the way of making a larger point, drawing conclusions from your experience, or discussing larger ideas.
- Don’t send us marketing materials. We will not publish purely promotional content.
- Do not send a carbon copy of previously published work. Bad for SEO. Bad for us. Bad for you.
Once accepted for publication, we reserve the right to edit your work, change titles, and otherwise revise your article for readability at our suggestion. Please note that we only publish two blogs per month. Please be patient as you wait for your beautiful words to be born into the world.
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Awesome feedback!!
Just sent you an email Toby and crew,
I shall get writing – I have a few older articles that have some themes we could explore..
I’m big on complimentary wordlviews (integrating east/west perspectives around collectivist and individualism, rewildling, decolonizing eco-tourism and adventure immersion industries, locally led initiatives and cross-cultural relationship building between communities…
my ‘hardskill’ background is horticulture, permaculture, reforestation and agro-forestry – my lineage and medicine path is a mix of deep ecology, indigenous mind, rewilding, deep time.. i haven’t gone public with this but about 2 years ago I had an awakening to my indigenous Australian heritage (energetically first – an outpouring of grief and opening to the living reality of ‘dreamtime’ as a dimension that exists as an energetic field outside of space and time…) and than through our family information is coming through… so it’s a big edge for me and something I’m still unravelling, we are all indigenous to this planet… and yet there is an indigenous spirit that runs through my life who yearns for decolonisation and integration.. a warrior who has been suppressed so that I can fit in, survive and ‘get by’.
just felt to share that – in the spirit of openness and authenticity.
Some of my past blogs… (yeh my writing style is still developing, a bit long-winded and raw.. always learning).
http://alushforest.blogspot.com/2012/
http://alushforest.blogspot.com/2013/
http://alushforest.blogspot.com/2014/
http://alushforest.blogspot.com/2015/
going to write an article for you now.