November 17th - November 21st, 2008
Thursday: NASCAR's testing ban for 2009 has race teams and fans up in arms. Matt McLaughlin Mouths Off and puts the ban under the microscope, dissecting the pros and cons of cutting costs in this way.
Friday: Jimmie Johnson has officially joined NASCAR's elite in the history books; but how will his chapter be written? Amy Henderson gives her take on Johnson's place in history in Holding a Pretty Wheel.
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Frontstretch Seeking New Writers
Are you looking for a fast-growing website that can give you an opportunity to not only share your thoughts on racing, but have FUN doing it with a group of laid-back, dedicated personnel? Well, we have the place for you. Frontstretch is now actively seeking a new writer or two to add to our dedicated staff.
Our website is one of the most popular NASCAR sites on the internet, on pace to reach almost 2 million page views this year. It’s a great place to both begin and continue your writing career, and over the years many distinguished Frontstretch alumni have moved on to careers in Public Relations and NASCAR writing all over the U.S. Currently, our managing editor works for Sports Illustrated, and several other writers here associate themselves with national publications such as Athlon Sports, Inside Racing News, etc.
What are the qualifications? Simple. As long as you can write clearly and make your reader think, dream, laugh, cry, swear, or hunt you down and beat you to a pulp, then you’re just who we are looking for!
For those who are interested in auditioning, we’d like you to write three articles based on the themes below:
The first will be a 100-word news article. Write a race report describing a race from the 2007 season. The goal is to give as much detail as possible and make your point in just a couple of paragraphs. Does that really say 100 words, you ask? Yes, it does…you’ll have to write pretty tightly for this one, a basic writing skill.
The second article will be a 300-word to 500-word commentary that not only has a point, but gets it across in a creative and exciting way. Don’t just give opinion…give opinion supported by facts. Be convincing! If you can’t convey your position in a reasonable amount of words, this one will show it.
The third article is where you get to spread your wings a little bit. Write about whatever you want. There is no word limit; the column can be as long as you need. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be about NASCAR. All you have to do with this one is write so well that it makes us want to add you to the staff. An article about why you should write for the Frontstretch wouldn’t be what we are looking for, though. If we like your first two articles, we’ll read this one to see if you can fill a spot we need here.
Email these three examples to our editors and we’ll go from there.
Good luck, and thanks in advance for auditioning!
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