I edited a boating magazine (inland waterways, not sea-going) and we got article submissions like this all the time. I ended up putting in our 'Notes for Contr

I edited a boating magazine (inland waterways, not sea-going) and we got article submissions like this all the time. I ended up putting in our 'Notes for Contributors' something like "Write about what will be interesting to the _reader_, not what is interesting to you" because apparently this eluded people.