Feel better soon, Lilith!

Feel better.

Get well soon Lil. :)

Hey gang, responses to Wayfinder will be slow going. I have been struck with one of Urgathoa's plagues and will be delayed in finalizing the Wayfinder #2 article list.

While we wait for your recovery, should we go ahead and tweak our material?

I know I've spotted ways to improve mine.

I originally didn't find the linnorms in the Bestiary when I started, since I was looking under 'Dragon', so assumed they'd been put back for a later product. I now find them in their own entry, and that the description in the Campaign Setting differs from the Bestiary, by describing them with vestigial wings, which they've since lost.
So scratch any mention of wing attacks.

While we wait for your recovery, should we go ahead and tweak our material?

Snorter wrote:

While we wait for your recovery, should we go ahead and tweak our material?

Ah, yes, the infamous tweaking... Yeah, I could polish my submissions a bit more, too. :(

The version of your article that you sent in should have been your final one...though you might get a chance to update it before it goes out to the editor. (Not likely though, as we're cutting it close to the wire for the release date.)

No tweaking or we will never finish!!! We still have lots of editing/artsy/layout/privatepartscratching/marketing to do!

The version of your article that you sent in should have been your final one...though you might get a chance to update it before it goes out to the editor. (Not likely though, as we're cutting it close to the wire for the release date.)

In my case, remove any reference to fly speed, or wing attack, and chop reference to flight in the Tactics section.
Add the word 'mithral' to the armor (and reduce armor check penalty to -1).
That frees up some word count to add to the PC hook, and I'll see if I can rebalance the wordcount between backstory and current info.

We are going to get artsy real soon!

If someone other than the current artists wants to participate please let me know.

has Lilith decided who made the cut yet?

I'm sure we'll be notified in due order. Patience, grasshopper.

I'm sure we'll be notified in due order. Patience, grasshopper.

Shadowborn wrote:

I'm sure we'll be notified in due order. Patience, grasshopper.

I though Daigle was the grasshopper?

... Does that mean Daigle is really Jack Half-A-Prayer?

We are going to get artsy real soon!

If someone other than the current artists wants to participate please let me know.

So, well, if you're missing more people, do let me know.

No, dude, he's a praying mantis. Wait...
... Does that mean Daigle is really Jack Half-A-Prayer?

Hugo Solis wrote:

We are going to get artsy real soon!

If someone other than the current artists wants to participate please let me know.

I'd definitely be interested, although there's a sad lot of "depends" connected to it, ainly technical issues such as poor scanner etc. However that can be dealt with.

So, well, if you're missing more people, do let me know.

Please shoot me an email to:

Luthia wrote:

Hugo Solis wrote:

We are going to get artsy real soon!

If someone other than the current artists wants to participate please let me know.

I'd definitely be interested, although there's a sad lot of "depends" connected to it, ainly technical issues such as poor scanner etc. However that can be dealt with.

So, well, if you're missing more people, do let me know.

This is a "Fan"-zine, and thou we do look up for quality, everyone is welcome as long as they submit a decent job.

Please shoot me an email to:
** spoiler omitted **
to have your contact and send you the art request when ready

Hoping I can help with the project, it's such an awesome initiative.

Luthia wrote:

Hugo Solis wrote:

We are going to get artsy real soon!

If someone other than the current artists wants to participate please let me know.

I'd definitely be interested, although there's a sad lot of "depends" connected to it, ainly technical issues such as poor scanner etc. However that can be dealt with.

So, well, if you're missing more people, do let me know.

This is a "Fan"-zine, and thou we do look up for quality, everyone is welcome as long as they submit a decent job.

Please shoot me an email to:
** spoiler omitted **
to have your contact and send you the art request when ready

I shot you a quick e-mail ...

Thanks!

Marc

In the spirit of Snorter's 'last minute corrections', if whomever is editing Lady of Winter (if it's considered for inclusion) decides to run with just the story section and skip the introduction, then:

...This was a time, my daughter, when if the Emperor of Taldor wished to review his troops, the first soldier tramped past at the rising of the sun, and the very last was marching still, when the moon was scaling the heavens...

In the spirit of Snorter's 'last minute corrections',...

For the record, I sort of agree that there should be a limit on submitting amendments, so as not to drive the editors crazy.
Though I see a distinction between mechanical corrections, which have to be made, or the entry is objectively 'wrong', and descriptive prose, which is totally subjective, so can never be deemed right or wrong.

It's the latter that can get out of hand; many creatives are their own worst critic, and would be second-guessing themselves right up to the article going to press.

Snorter:
Ahh, the old numbers vs words debate... :D

Edit:
Smurf. ;)

It's the latter that can get out of hand; many creatives are their own worst critic, and would be second-guessing themselves right up to the article going to press.

Snorter wrote:

It's the latter that can get out of hand; many creatives are their own worst critic, and would be second-guessing themselves right up to the article going to press.

Oh hell yes. And, in my case, several years after going to press. *Every* time I read something I've written in the past, I cringe and discover new errors or things that could have been worded better. Doesn't matter if I've read that particular item a dozen times in the past, it's like new typos creep in just to vex me...

Are you saying that wordsmiths aren't artists? ;)

Seriously though, I was told by an editor far wiser than I that more often than not, it's best to fire and forget. There's no point in hammering yourself with things after they've seen print.

Seriously though, I was told by an editor far wiser than I that more often than not, it's best to fire and forget. There's no point in hammering yourself with things after they've seen print.

Are you saying that wordsmiths aren't artists? ;)

Seriously though, I was told by an editor far wiser than I that more often than not, it's best to fire and forget. There's no point in hammering yourself with things after they've seen print.

It's not. We were speaking generally.

It's not. We were speaking generally.

Snorter:
Ahh, the old numbers vs words debate... :D

Why are submissions (to any publication, not just this one) rated on number of words? Why not characters? Or number of lines?
Surely, it's the space taken up on the page that's the sticking point?

Otherwise, I'll start channeling Clark Ashton Smith, and those 1500 words will end up the size of a thesaurus. LOL

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Snorter:
Ahh, the old numbers vs words debate... :D

Well, I never did get an answer to that original query from oh, so many years ago, that made any sense. Mostly, it was 'because writers have always been paid by the word', but that doesn't explain why that state of affairs ever became the norm.

Why are submissions (to any publication, not just this one) rated on number of words? Why not characters? Or number of lines?
Surely, it's the space taken up on the page that's the sticking point?

Otherwise, I'll start channeling Clark Ashton Smith, and those 1500 words will end up the size of a thesaurus. LOL

Of course, I could just be full of it and making it up as I go along. ;)

DEADLINE: October 31st. All entries will be handled on a first come, first serve basis. Unlike the first Wayfinder, there will be a set limit on the number of articles, and your article may be rejected. I will announce when submissions are closed for Wayfinder #2, however, keep those submissions handy. Something…else…will be afoot. ;)

Lilith wrote:

DEADLINE: October 31st. All entries will be handled on a first come, first serve basis. Unlike the first Wayfinder, there will be a set limit on the number of articles, and your article may be rejected. I will announce when submissions are closed for Wayfinder #2, however, keep those submissions handy. Something…else…will be afoot. ;)

Clarification requested:
I have seen nothing further on the subject of that 'Something…else…'. Did it fall through, and if not is there a specific date assigned to it?

<hops from foot to foot, in breathless anticipation>

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Lilith wrote:

DEADLINE: October 31st. All entries will be handled on a first come, first serve basis. Unlike the first Wayfinder, there will be a set limit on the number of articles, and your article may be rejected. I will announce when submissions are closed for Wayfinder #2, however, keep those submissions handy. Something…else…will be afoot. ;)

Clarification requested:
I have seen nothing further on the subject of that 'Something…else…'. Did it fall through, and if not is there a specific date assigned to it?

The pieces have not been put in play for that yet, alas.