Originally Posted by Dignified Pauper
Hey all, just a quick note before bed.
Lenna's right, but also wrong. It needed someone well-known and established and respected to start this. I for one, am not entirely respected by everyone here as much as she, and for this, she was right to start it. I will invest time into this, because it is a great idea, it's great practice for a serious writer, such as myself, and it'll just be interesting to see how the community responds.
As for now. I have a feeling we're going to have to put a lot of people who want to help on hold for the first few issues.
To be brutally honest and blunt, a lot of people will want to help, but I'm not sure if they realize some of the work that they will actually have to do. Sure, this is just an online paper for our local forum, but we want it to be good, and worthy of being affiliated with EoFF. Because of that, we are going to reserve the right to reject people's help at anytime. Some people may get lazy, and while I haven't talked to Lenna, I think she'll agree that when this happens, we simply say, thanks for the help, come back when you're ready to reinvest time in this. Also, you may want to help, and we may not like what you have submitted. Even if you've been helpful and we've taken and published your work, don't expect that because you've been in the paper that you will be in every issue. We'll take the best stories, as many as we think we will need, and put them there. If your's does not make the cut, sorry, but that's the way it is.
A lot of people, at the beginning, I think will be put on the back burner, a waiting list. I'm not expecting the first few issues to be full-scale greatness, just the start, to get the fundamentals down, to check talent, etc.
Anyways, it's 4:15AM I'm tired. Night all.
-Marick-