Guest posts on memory, attention, timing and puzzle technique — strict about sourcing, relaxed about the rest
We publish guest pieces on memory, attention, timing and puzzle technique. Send a pitch rather than a finished draft — it takes you ten minutes and we can answer it in one.
Memory techniques with evidence behind them. Attention, interruption costs and how focus actually works. Reaction time, timing and motor learning. Typing technique and the speed-accuracy trade-off.
Puzzle solving methods — the mathematics behind a classic puzzle is always welcome. Cognitive ageing, written for the people it affects rather than about them. And a careful, sourced correction of something widely repeated and wrong is the piece we will always find room for.
Anything with an invented statistic. If a number appears in your piece we need the source, and "studies show" is not a source. This is the single most common reason a pitch gets declined.
Supplement or product promotion dressed as an article. Claims that brain training raises intelligence, because the evidence does not support it and we say so everywhere else on the site. Pieces written to place a link, which are obvious to us and to readers.
Anything generated wholesale and unedited. We are not against using tools; we are against publishing something nobody checked.
One link in your author bio, follow, no charge. Links inside the body only where they genuinely support a claim, and they are the first thing we cut if they do not.
We do not sell links, we do not accept payment for placement, and we do not do reciprocal link exchanges. If that is what you are after, this is not the site.
A title and two or three sentences on what the piece argues. What it rests on — the study, the technique or the result you are explaining. One paragraph about you, and a link to something you have written.
Not a finished draft. A pitch costs you ten minutes and we can say yes or no to it in one; a finished draft that is not right for us wastes a day of your time. Send it to support@mindskillsarcade.com.