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Yes, it was published. ^^ See above, in one of Jaho's quotes. It has a link.

By the way, I didn't do anything on Halloween, so there is no pictuer. sweatdrop

And I have been shot. Twice. Once in each arm. It doesn't really hurt if you don't look. Looking makes it hurt because of a the whole psychology deal thingie. But now my right arm (Hepatitus B) is sore, and my left arm (Tetnus) is weaker than it was. And I probably have a mild fever and also a head ache. But that's okay! I'd rather have these ailnesses over some other ailnesses like depression or mono or something. mrgreen

I'm more than booked on lame a** projects.

Has the submission thread even been started? If not, I'll do it.

And I think we need to have some big new change or something so that we're all into it again and working more.

We could work on the minishop, or explore young writers' websites and try to give the people here some genuine exposure, if they want it. I found one webiste the tells you how to start a web zine that you can email to people, but it advocates a text-only format. So no flashy pictures or anything. I've also heard you can make money off of that kind of thing, but I'm thinking that if we make money the writers should too, and that's a lot of trouble.

*knocks* So is anyone up for my revolution? Because I do admit that even my intereset in our magazine has begun to slacken... sad

Oh, my God. I am so sorry! You must think I've been on hiatus or dead or something. I've been totally AWOL since October, haven't I?

...groveling over. Anyway, I'm just checking in to make sure that you don't need anything dire (and I do mean DIRE. It's November) and to...well...grovel. And to make sure that you knew I was still alive and I will be returning to the 'zine full-time come December.

...ooh. Rotating features. Sounds like a plan. Just let the graphics requests build up in my inbox if you need to.

Again, I am SO sorry about this. Please don't hate me. I'm not an AWOL team member. It's just...NaNo is a bit of a...a priority, I guess.

That and science fair.

...nah. Just NaNo.

sad Sorry!

Edit: You know, the published author thing would rock for publicity...and besides that, my NaNovel is looking almost like something that, with editorial redemption, someone might publish.

Hmm.

A sound plan.

In good news though, I figured out what this months article will be about. My scholarship that I want to create for white middle class males.

Actually, never mind about the Archive, because I just updated it. ^^ Now... I have an idea. A mini contest.

Question: Why is Litterature such an important subject?

Anyone in the next issue who can best answer the question will win some gold. I was thinking 1k, but we could also make this a regular thing, since it's so short and easy. Making it regular would mean we'd want to drop the prize amount. Or, if it's a really hard question, we could have a 3-strikes rule. If no one answers it correctly or doesn't quite hit on the exact answer, we publish the same question in up to 3 issues, hiking the prize each time. If still no one gets it, we post the answer in the 4th issue above the new question.

EDIT: And we could sell clues, if the person who created the question is willing to. But would it go to the press, or to the person? What should the set price(s) be? This could be part of the minishop too, you know.

And I didn't see a November submission thread. Meaning I have to choose from the Mounds. Joy. And I also have to update the indexes. Wonderful. This is what I get for procrastinating. Oh well.

2nd EDIT: And I have just noticed... we published ch. 7 of Badger Brigade twice, once in issue 7 and again in issue 9. Wow.

And I'm pretty much swamped. Plus I need to get a bunch of s**t together for my senior portfolio, so my time is pretty much splat. But you'll get my scholarship parody this month, so that's good.