Post by dieselby on Sept 4, 2008 20:22:50 GMT -5
OKAY YOUR VOICES WERE HEARD
the editor of skive magazine has donated MOURNINGSILENCE.COM. because i went over budget. so now you can easily remember and tell your friends. i'll be getting the myspace tonight. i'll let your friend requests stack up for a month then add you all and hopefully that will also help in the networking. sales have started to pick up. still need way more. do your duty to the community, even if you don't feel you owe a stranger nothing. anyways, send in some submissions: endsilence@gmx.com. probably will make that whole thing easier to by redirecting submissions to subs@mourningsilence.com. that would make things simple, i think. anyway i'm going to do some design stuff and whatever, then i'm going on holiday for about a month. hopefully by october you all will have spread the word a little bit. this project can be as big or as little as the community wants it be, it has no intention of staying underground: it is this generation's stylish retreat. yes the first issue was tiny, but i beg your pardon to follow some of my research back to the early days of literary magazines. they used to be one page. one fucking page. you know why? because not paying your writers was unheard of, and the materials were so expensive. so i beg you to stop thinking in terms of "getting what you pay for." this is a full color magazine, and i'm thinking of revamping a second edition so that there is more color within the pages so to maximize the value of going for full color in the first place. it was a poor design choice when you consider i lost like two dollars on an issue because of it. i'm going to be posting some more pictures, mostly i'll work on the sales part, i'm half-considering a friggin' content mangement system thing because they have a tendency of making things smooth. i'm willing to do a web-counterpart and i want to round up some musical artists and spoken word artist to put together yet another unique piece of merchandise in the form of a sort of tribute album. of course there is not much to tribute to just yet. i refuse to enlist any help from the community until i can pay for it, at least a stipend of $25-75 per month. paid up front. just envision what this project could be. all that it could be. and consider all that when you buy two packs of cigarettes for nearly as much as the cost of the issue.
i loved the recent poems by rick andrews.
okay, for now.
you'll hear again from me around morning time. here's to a sustainable literary future...
htd
the editor of skive magazine has donated MOURNINGSILENCE.COM. because i went over budget. so now you can easily remember and tell your friends. i'll be getting the myspace tonight. i'll let your friend requests stack up for a month then add you all and hopefully that will also help in the networking. sales have started to pick up. still need way more. do your duty to the community, even if you don't feel you owe a stranger nothing. anyways, send in some submissions: endsilence@gmx.com. probably will make that whole thing easier to by redirecting submissions to subs@mourningsilence.com. that would make things simple, i think. anyway i'm going to do some design stuff and whatever, then i'm going on holiday for about a month. hopefully by october you all will have spread the word a little bit. this project can be as big or as little as the community wants it be, it has no intention of staying underground: it is this generation's stylish retreat. yes the first issue was tiny, but i beg your pardon to follow some of my research back to the early days of literary magazines. they used to be one page. one fucking page. you know why? because not paying your writers was unheard of, and the materials were so expensive. so i beg you to stop thinking in terms of "getting what you pay for." this is a full color magazine, and i'm thinking of revamping a second edition so that there is more color within the pages so to maximize the value of going for full color in the first place. it was a poor design choice when you consider i lost like two dollars on an issue because of it. i'm going to be posting some more pictures, mostly i'll work on the sales part, i'm half-considering a friggin' content mangement system thing because they have a tendency of making things smooth. i'm willing to do a web-counterpart and i want to round up some musical artists and spoken word artist to put together yet another unique piece of merchandise in the form of a sort of tribute album. of course there is not much to tribute to just yet. i refuse to enlist any help from the community until i can pay for it, at least a stipend of $25-75 per month. paid up front. just envision what this project could be. all that it could be. and consider all that when you buy two packs of cigarettes for nearly as much as the cost of the issue.
i loved the recent poems by rick andrews.
okay, for now.
you'll hear again from me around morning time. here's to a sustainable literary future...
htd