Neopian Times Guide:
The Neopian Times
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<b>The Neopian Times</b> is Neopia’s only Newspaper. To get your story, comic or article in it, it must have a lot of words, and if it is an article, good information. We’ll talk about that later. But first, we are going to cover what sections there are in the Neopian Times.
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<b>Editorial</b>
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The Editorial is where you can ask questions about Neopets and maybe someone from Neopets will answer them. Sometimes the answers are really long, other times they are one word answers that don’t answer your question. So, you have to be careful with this. In other words – don’t submit useless questions or comments – it won’t get put in there.
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<b>Articles</b>
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The Articles section of the Neopian Times is where people like you submit their articles, tips or game guides for you to read. Other articles are about a new feature on the site. This section is worth looking at if you are digging for information.
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<b>Short Stories</b>
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The Short Stories part of the Neopian Times is where people like you submit their stories that they wrote, about a Neopet, a place or some other things. This section is worth reading if you are looking for a good, small story to read.
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<b>Comics</b>
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The Comics section of the Neopian Times is where you can make comics and submit them for other people to look at. Most Comics are funny, others are meant for you to go “What?”. This section is worth reading for a good laugh.
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<b>Series</b>
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This part of the Neopian Times is where you can submit a story in many parts. You can have from 2 to 12 parts in your series. If you want a story to read every week, go to New Series. If you want a story that has already been started, then click on Continued Series. This section is worth reading if you are willing to check the Neopian Times every week for it.
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<b>I want to submit something now! </b>
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You do? That’s great! Of course, like we said at the top of this article, your submission needs to be good. In this part, we will talk about what your submission needs.
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<b>What does my Article need?</b>
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Your article needs at least 1000 words before you can even submit it. But, your article should have about 1500 words, not too long but not too short either. Would you read an article that is 50,000 words long? Probably not. So, just make your article about that. As we said before, your article needs good information. It also would be better if you could make title that catches the eye, like <b>Sliding your way in Let It Slide</b> instead of <b>Let It Slide Game Guide</b> for a game guide about Let It Slide. If you want, you can write a comment that will appear at the bottom of your article. If you wrote it with someone else then put their username in the comments box and if it gets entered into the Neopian Times it will say <b><i>Also by username</i></b>. So, let’s go onto the next thing.
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<b>Submitting an Editorial question</b>
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Submit a question to the editorial by going to the bottom of that page and click on </b>Submit a question</b>. Questions only sometimes get answered, so if it does than count your self lucky.
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<b>What does my Short Story need?</b>
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Your short story needs at least 1,200 words. So, you want to make it sort of only short and great. Of course, it needs to be fewer than 4,000 words. So, about 1,250 words would be a good short story. Again, make your title so that it catches the eye when they are browsing the NT. A title like <b>Neohomes</b> would not be too good, right? Instead you want to make it like <b>Neohome Mystery</b> so that more people read it. You can write a comment that goes underneath it, and if it is also by another person write their username in the comments part and they will be credited. Let’s go onto the next thing.
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<b>What does my Series need?</b>
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Your series needs at least 1,500 words per part. So, make each part about that. As always, make sure that the title of your series catches the eye. So, a good title might be <b>Playing in the Lost Tomb</b> instead of <b>The Lost Tomb</b>. You can write a comment, and it will get published at the last part underneath the ending. You may also credit someone who helped you.
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<b>What does my Comic need?</b>
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Your comic can only be 200MB big, so the image needs to be small. Your image will have to be one huge image together, and you can credit anyone on the image. Of course, the title needs to be funny. You can also make and upload a logo for your comic. Comments are allowed, and will go at the bottom of the comic.
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<b>Older Issues of the NT</b>
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You can look at older issues of the NT by clicking on Archives. Then it has a list of issues. The “old” Neopian Times is Issue 1 to Issue 150, which is where the New NT took over. There are also “stone age” issues, which are supposed to be older than Neopia’s hills. In fact, these are really old, so some people suffer mental illnesses from reading them(not really!)! Let’s go back in time!
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<b>Afterwords</b>
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I hope you enjoyed this guide and have fun with the NT!
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<center>~Lion</center>
