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Story Guidelines

What the Music Meant to Me is a publication of fiction and non-fiction stories ranging from two to ten pages per story (750 words to 20,000 words). The stories will be unified via a common denominator. That denominator is that each story will be titled by a song lyric. The theme of each story will be based on the song lyric however the lyric will not be used in the individual stories.

For example, a story is titled, "Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night," the story itself is about a man who ran into an old college buddy and an adventurous night they have together.

Stories should be no shorter than two pages and no longer than ten pages.

Please submit stories using our web form at:

What the Music Meant to Me Story Submission Form

On the top left-hand side of the story include the following in the following order:

1. Title of the story - feel free to choose from the examples found on our title page at:
   Title Suggestions
   If there is a title you would like to use that is not listed on the Title Suggestions page, please include the name of the song, the lyric, and the artist and/or songrwriter.
2. Your name.
3. Your email address.

Copyright © 2009 Syracuse Micro Publishing and WhatTheMusic.com reserves the right to publish your submitted stories and images at our own discretion. We also reserve the right to use and modify submissions as standard procedure. When you submit to WhatTheMusic.com, you are granting us the right to a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, fully sub-licensable, exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, translate, adapt, publish, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, and delete such content in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed.