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Another Call for Articles
« on: July 06, 2004, 11:48:56 AM »
Starting a new thread for this to get people's attention.

ok, this is really sad. And even more sad that it's happening on my watch.
But in the last week we've had ONE article. ONE. That was busted out during my lunch break and probablyl poorly edited.

Guys, we need content. Now, i'm as guilty as the rest of you. I have stuff I've been "meaning to write" and haven't done. So there's no pointing of fingers here. I have good excuses for putting it off. I'm sure everyone here does.

But as my mission president was fond of saying, "Excuses do not change performance." The fact is, we still have nothing available to run. It's time to get those game sessions recaps, game reviews, or gaming thoughts out. Love a web comic? Time to review it. coming up with a new system? Time to write it up and send it.

The biggest thing that keeps TWG "legit" (ie, something we editors and contributers can put on their resumes as an amateur effort that develops their career worthiness) is the fact that it's dependable. We haven't been dependable. Any of you with pretentions of writerliness (it's a word, really), please help us out. We need your content! It's your community too, help it grow and improve by doing more than cruising the forums.

I will be most grateful.

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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2004, 12:45:39 PM »
Have you gotten any more books lately? Also, I was curious if you could use your editorliness (probably not a word) to contact fantasy publishers other than WoC for advance reader copies of things coming out for review.

Oh, and I just finished a book that I'll be reviewing for the next theme day.
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2004, 12:55:47 PM »
I do have a book i meant to send you. I'll do that tomorrow. I'm pretty sure I have it still. to be sure, email me.

Incidentally, until I know that my friend's server is up, I'm using gmail. Send to me at thelemur at gmail dot com.

That's the best place to talk to me about getting product too. We like to move that off the forum.

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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2004, 02:29:41 PM »
I plan on doing something this week once I get back from vacation.  But, ya, I don't get paid here so when I'm on vacation I usealy don't hang around TWG much (I've only checked the site twice in the past 5 days).  But I'll do something tonight at work for tomorrow.
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2004, 08:01:09 PM »
I'll pump out my next Eva review later today then. Maybe the next two. I also have a Shadowfist article I should write too, although since we were plotting to try and get an interview to run alongside it, I'd need to do that as well, so it's not a short term solution.

I've been reading free books from Drive thru RPG. Could review some of them, even though most seem out of date or sourcebooks for systems I don't know. But who ever said I had journalistic integrity?
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2004, 03:15:43 AM »
I'm dead tired right now.  I've been up for for a long time allready and just drove back from Idaho to goto work.  I'll try and get something done tonight at work but I may not be sentient enough to do it when I have time in a few hours.
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2004, 09:01:14 AM »
Well, I'm feeling a little bit better. We've gone three days in a row now, and only one was written at the last minute. I even have an article for tomorrow. But next week's got nothing folks. I'd love to see a backlog again.

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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2004, 09:31:45 AM »
I've got one I'm working on.  I haven't finised it yet because of a patch problem with WoW that I've been trying to get to work.  And when I'm running the installer it pretty much eats up my CPU and takes about 30 min to do.  But I'll have it done sometime soon.
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2004, 09:35:19 AM »
Instead of writing, I spent the day putting my Shadowfist cards in to plastic folder sleeves, playing sleeves, putting together decks, and making a computerised database of all my cards,

I'll try and get something tomorrow, since that took longer than I anticipated spending on it.
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2004, 09:42:01 AM »
at least your wasted time was more fun and productive then mine.  But I am getting paid to waste my time so I guss I win no matter how crappy it goes.
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2004, 10:04:16 AM »
I haven't written because I've been trying to beat a laptop into doing what I want. I think I've wrung all the performance I'm going to out of it, so it's back to writing for me.

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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2004, 07:04:31 PM »
Just another reminder to those that submit articles, if you include formating tags they should be HTML tags not your standard forum tags.  If you don't know HTML then just don't add any and we'll take care of it.
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2004, 07:55:18 PM »
 :-[

eh heh heh.

I thought they were one and the same.

But then you probably figured that out.

Sorry!  

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(See, 'cause it's blue normally... eh heh)
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2004, 11:23:41 PM »
Jeffe, I was wondering how you wanted your article formated.  I went ahead and iltalicsed the paragraph headers assumeing you wanted something like that.

Edit: Also the title is too long, it gets cut off.

Spirit Magic, God Magic and Mind Magic, the intric

Could you shorten it or break it in two makeing part of it a subtitle.  Thanks.
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Re: Another Call for Articles
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2004, 07:46:47 PM »
Why no updates?  We've got two articles waiting.
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