Participate
Your ticket to a surf is a text.
The text is related to the subject in one way or another.
The text describes one aspect of the subject that interests me. In the texts of the other participants, other aspects of the subject will certainly be addressed.
The text should be important to you.
“That’s exciting!”, “That’s been bothering me for a long time!”, “That’s what I care about!”, “There is something in it!”, “That makes me think!” Reactions like these can reassure me that I have found the right text for a surf. If I just think: “This text could be interesting for others”, then I better keep looking until something is really interesting for me.
The text can be of any type.
An article from a newspaper, an excerpt from a book, an e-mail, a self-written text, a poem, something from a WhatsApp chat, something from a children’s book, the text of an ad, a user manual, …
The text should be short.
Up to 400 words long. This corresponds approximately to a half DIN A4 page narrowly written. Longer texts can be cut, shortened, the less important parts can be left out, crossed out, cut out, taken out…
The text to be read aloud should be easy to understand.
Your efforts for understandability should not limit your passion for your text. But your sentences will simply be better understood if they are a little shorter and less complicated. If your subject is initially limited to a few things that are particularly important to you, it is most understandable to everyone. As a thank you for taking this time to formulate or select such texts, a particularly fruitful conversation will then be enabled.