This is our definitive guide for authors. It will guide you through the process of becoming an author and publishing your work on this website.
We look forward to welcoming you to our community and sharing your work with the world!
Before beginning, we recommend that you have the following:
To apply to become an author, start by filling out this form.
It will ask you a series of questions, including your contact details. This is the most important part as we will use them to contact you about anything related to this website. Your details will not be shared with anyone.
After you complete the form, we will contact you. We may ask you additional questions. We recommend that you fill the form out as completely as possible to make this process as efficient as possible.
Once we're satified you meet our requirements, we will let you know. At that time, your author status will be set and you will then be able to access the authors-only pages.
All of the articles on our site must be first prepared in Google Docs. If you would prefer to edit your document elsewhere you can, although the final document must be hosted on Google Docs or you will not be able to publish it.
In order for your article to display correctly, we recommend placing it in our template document. If you want to recreate this yourself, alter your document settings as follows:
Your document will now most likely look strange, but that's ok! When the article is published, it will look much better with these settings.
Now that your document is formatted correctly, you need to make it accessible. Do the following:
Now, you should see a textbox with some code in it that looks like <iframe src="...
Copy the enitre contents of the textbox. This is your embed code. You will need it to complete the publication form.
If you expand the "Published conent and settings" section, you will see two items. The first is a "stop publishing" button. If you click this, you article will no longer be available. If you wish to remove your article, please contact us in advance. The second item is a check box labeled "Automatically republish when changes are made." If this is checked, your article will automatically update when you edit your document. If it is unchecked, it will stay as it was when you published it. You many choose to select either option.
Please note that deleting, editing, or unpublishing your document may have an effect on its availablity on ISpeakDragon. We recommend that you avoid all of these to ensure that your document is properly displayed.
Now that your document is ready, you can finally publish!
Before completing the form, you will need:
Once you're ready, all you need to do is copy all of this information into the form and click publish!
The publication form can be found here. If you can't access it, it most likely means that your account has not been approved yet. If you have any issues publsihing, don't hesitate to contact us.
That's all you need to do! We recommend that you revist this guide every time you publsih to ensure that you do everything correctly.
Happy publishing!