What are Headlines?

Headlines are single paragraph synopses covering storyline news and role-play related news that occurred throughout the previous month.  They are listed in two distinctly different formats. Red Headlines and Blue Headlines to help distinguish between what could be heard about In Character and what should be solely restricted to Out of Character information.

Why are there two different colors listed for Headlines?

Ubique's Monthly covers everything role-playing related, and as previously stated covers character and storyline news from an out of character perspective.  In the case of our Headlines, however, the news is segregated so that readers may make better sense of the information presented to them and reduce the risk of confusing IC knowledge with OOC knowledge.

Highlighted Red Headlines cover the potential In Character information.  This is news and gossip that your characters may have heard about.  Red Headlines cover the majority of such information as the RDI Playables and whatever else characters may talk about in play.  Our eyes and ears are everywhere in play land, and so are yours.  If anything catches your interest In Character, report on it using the red bold format for the title.

Blue Headlines cover out of character news stories.  Small, single paragraph articles that cover news from the various role-playing sites, guilds and communities fit into the Blue Headline formatting.  If you adopted a puppy, we want to hear about it.  If Clan Cuttleheiman is recruiting new players and character so that they can enact an all out war on their arch-nemesis the Fluffy Bunny Gang, we want to read about it.

How do I write a Headline?

First and foremost, be certain to inform us whether your news fits as a Red Headline (in character news and gossip) or a Blue Headline (out of character news).  Give that news a catchy heading, a couple of words that even more briefly summarizes the content and designed to catch a reader's attention.  Look at your local newspapers for some good ideas.

Then simply write us a blurb.  A blurb is defined as being a brief summarization of an event or collection of information.  Examples of blurbs can be found on the dust jacket of any paperback novel.  For Ubique's Monthly, we prefer no more than a single paragraph, up to five sentences.  But we will accept two paragraphs, up to ten sentences.

If you cannot quite cut down your news to that preferred length, don't worry.  Send us whatever your brain spits out at you and our editorial staff will take care of the difficult task of pruning the edges for you.