The Magazine Thread

[LMNO]

Question about editing.


E-Prime, or declarative satements using the "is of identity"?

[Cramulus]

I find e-prime much easier to read. It disarms a lot of nitpicking.

[AFK]

The above statement appears to me to be correct. 

[LMNO]

Okie doki.


It seems that E-Prime can be a poor medium for polemics and rants, however.

[AFK]

Yeah, with rants being more assertive and "from the gut" I agree that the original voice should be preserved as much as possible. 

[LMNO]

Now you're contradicting yourself, you bastard.

Which is it?

[Cramulus]

Yeah I guess e-prime is probably best suited for expository writing, essays etc. I mean, imagine TGRR's rants all e-primed up.

"Your Bobbie-ass is gonna get what it deserves!"

vs

"In my opinion your Bobbie-ass is gonna get what I think it deserves. "

[AFK]

Okie doki.


It seems that E-Prime can be a poor medium for polemics and rants, however.

I was agreeing with this statement.  I thought you were saying e-prime wouldn't be good for rants but you would use it for the other writings.  Perhaps I misunderstood.  

[LMNO]

Or i did.

Or something.


Anyway, I'll use E-Prime as much as I can.

[That One Guy]

OK - a quick thing regarding the site - while I personally prefer to run whatever I plan on posting to Aftermath by the people here before I post it there, is there any (in)formal ettiquite for this?

I'm a total, utter newbie to the whole "blog" thing and don't want to just spew forth random crap (although from what I've seen that's really all a blog is), especially since there's plans of doing a pdf thing at intervals. I have the Brand Loyalty thing I posted under the Rants forum saved as a draft on the Aftermath thing, but I don't want to just toss it out there.

Any guidelines for this going forward?

[LMNO]

Run it through here first, maybe?


I dunno.  I'm having a hard time seeing how this will work while keeping an open and democratic, non-elitist approach.

[Payne]

Given the constraints inherent in creating a magazine, I'm sure we could accept some guidelines from you dude.

It's a bit different in a community, but if we want anything out there, there's going to have to be some kind of procedure for getting it done right and on time.

I'm only going to be an occasional contributor anyway, but I plan to post anything in here first, then submit to the editorial process with an expectation that it will come out looking more "article-y" than like bile spewed all over some poor thread in here. And I'll understand that before I submit anything, so it won't be anything personal against the editor.

Thats just me though

[Cain]

E-prime is fine for analysis, but if you don't like using it (I'm not always prepared to), then don't.

Also, still working on the intro business.  Maybe half an hour and I can sort it?  I needed to run some errands.

[LMNO]

Payne seems to be more understanding than most.

[Payne]

My mind is very bendy.