Newsletter News
Apr. 20th, 2011 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinThe newsletter business has given me more evidence to stick in the "don't announce or even plan on doing something before you know how to do it" file. When I started this online writing thing, I was making things up as I go because that's what fiction is that was the only way to do it... so now it's not so much that I'm going "Ready, Fire, Aim", it's more like, "Aim... wait, wait, Ready... am I ready? Okay, now Fire."
When I'm going for something that's already well within my means and capabilities, this works out awesomely. When I'm not... there's a lot of stumbling around.
The delay today is about HTML formatting problems (stemming from a small mistaken assumption on my part, one that would have been almost nothing if I'd thought to check it at the outset but now has resulted in quite a lot of tedious reformatting, even with find-and-replace) and the fact that I found some names missing from the mailing list that should be on there.
The major features of the first newsletter are as follows: an explanation of some of the choices I made in the wrap-up of volume 1 and launching of volume 2, behind-the-scenes commentary for The Gift of the Bad Guy with some discussion of its follow up (Working Class Villain), a brief sneak peek at a MUniverse political intrigue novella tentatively titled The Malbus Situation, and a complete (though not final) draft of an unpublished short story of mine called "Game Theory".
Smaller tidbits include things like an explanation of how the word "billy" came to be shire-slang for "boat".
Since I won't be sending it out before Friday, it's still not too late to get in on this thing just in case fantasy etymology really fascinates you.
When I'm going for something that's already well within my means and capabilities, this works out awesomely. When I'm not... there's a lot of stumbling around.
The delay today is about HTML formatting problems (stemming from a small mistaken assumption on my part, one that would have been almost nothing if I'd thought to check it at the outset but now has resulted in quite a lot of tedious reformatting, even with find-and-replace) and the fact that I found some names missing from the mailing list that should be on there.
The major features of the first newsletter are as follows: an explanation of some of the choices I made in the wrap-up of volume 1 and launching of volume 2, behind-the-scenes commentary for The Gift of the Bad Guy with some discussion of its follow up (Working Class Villain), a brief sneak peek at a MUniverse political intrigue novella tentatively titled The Malbus Situation, and a complete (though not final) draft of an unpublished short story of mine called "Game Theory".
Smaller tidbits include things like an explanation of how the word "billy" came to be shire-slang for "boat".
Since I won't be sending it out before Friday, it's still not too late to get in on this thing just in case fantasy etymology really fascinates you.