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Submission Requirements at The Gathering Table

Find your place at BJ’s This or That — The Gathering Table

BJ’s This or That — The Gathering Table…

…is a community pub for ToT Challengers to share their stories. Now accepting ToT Challenge responses, various non-ToT prompts and challenges (responses and writing inspiration), bragging & badassery, life lessons, shoutouts, and “Meet Me (ToT’s version of About Me)” articles.

If you’d like to become a writer, please read the whole article and tell me in the comments below. Leave your name (your Medium handle, preceded by the @ symbol) AND make up one This or That question for me to answer.

**BY ASKING TO BE A WRITER, YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS.

This article covers: 1. Tags and Types of Submissions, 2. Writing Guidelines, 3. Red Flags, Dealbreakers, & Dismissal, and 4. Mission Statement

Section 1: Tags and Types of Submissions

Please make the first tag of your articles as follows:

1. ToT Challenge responses: Use the tag BJ’s This or That
2. Non-ToT prompts: Use the tag Writing Prompts
3. Bragging and Badassery: Use the tag Inspiration
4. Life Lessons and Other Stories: Use the tag Life Lessons
5. Shoutouts: Use the tag Appreciation
6. Meet Me Articles: Use the tag Introduction

**These are the types of articles we are accepting at The Gathering Table right now. As Editor-in-Chief, BJ has the right to reject articles if they don’t fit into one of these six categories AND/OR if they are oppositional. See details in Section 2.

Section 2: Writing Guidelines at BJ’s ToT

Please submit:

1. Unpublished drafts only, please
2. Original work that has been written recently (less than 3 days)
3. Articles that fit the mood (conversational, not hateful) of BJ’s ToT
4. Styled, finished work that has properly sourced images
5. No more than 1 or 2 articles per day
6. Tagged articles with one of the options in Section 1
7. Mindful articles that are not overly lengthy or overly short. Try to keep your articles greater than 150 words and less than 8 minutes. They’ll get more views that way!

Section 3: Red Flags, Dealbreakers, & Dismissal

1. Hatefulness, rudeness, and trolling are not acceptable anywhere. It will not be tolerated — or published — at BJ’s ToT.
2. Ask to be a writer if you want to be a writer on this pub. If you don’t, don’t ask. AI articles will not be published here. Neither will self-promotion or money schemes.
3. Do your best work. That means you have Grammarly or some other editing service. Read my article on Grammarly here. I’m not a teacher; I don’t want to have to correct tons of silly errors and I won’t. If your work is a mess, it will not be published.
4. Lastly, BJ is not a babysitter, but she will kick out the mean kids. Don’t be mean. Life’s too short and too long to waste it being mean to one another. Be great to each other instead.

Section 4: Mission Statement

BJ’s ToT — The Gathering Table is a place where opinions are enjoyed in a game setting. It is a place to share your stories and inspiration. In addition, it provides a safe space to try writing for other reasons, like bragging and shouting out to other writers on Medium or people in your life that make it the beautiful work of art that it is.

We’re not faking being positive here. Life lessons often come after our hardest times. But we do try to find a silver lining, even if it is just the fact that we can write about it and share it with other writers, friends, and cohorts who care at The Gathering Table.

Big Love & Happy ToT-ing.

I’m Brett Jenae Tomlin, The Anxious Enthusiast.

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