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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Connorsrpg" data-source="post: 2053807" data-attributes="member: 19265">Thanks for all of the replies.Just a couple of things.  I am aware of the Submission Guidelines.  I have had an article in Dragon before (the first Player's Advice for the 'new' focus dragon - an article I had to crop from 3,200 words to 800 and in the end made little sense <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> ).I am more interested in what some of you have sent for queries.  As stated I have actually written two articles.  They are more Player Advice ones and are written exactly for that format, including word length.  What should I have sent to Dragon other than an email stating "here's some ideas I have, would you be interested?".Would it be better off attaching the docs and just saying 'check them out' first time around rather than sending email as query and then waiting a long time for reply and then 'if' they are accepted sending them in and waiting again?  I am worried that a simple query will not portray what is in my articles, as they are not as simple as saying ' hey, what about an ecology on shriekers'?About the waiting.  My first article went through rather quickly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  This time around it is different and the stuff that got passed onto Dungeon from Dragon during their change of focus is what I sent agan recently.  Meaning it was originally sent with the first submission that was published in Dragon 323.More recently my other queries have taken some time.  I am not moaning, just finding out what is going on and what others experience now - as it is far different than my first time around.But as someone else said it would be good to know, b/c I have these articles I would like to use/put out there somewhere.  Without 'knowing' whether Dragon & Dungeon are interested at least the articles do nothing.  I am not going to get overly upset if they are rejected, but I could at least put out a PDF or more likely on a website interested.Have enjoyed the feedback.  Now just help me with what exactly a query is.  What do you send for article ideas?Connors</blockquote>

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