Going Old School - Are You In? (Would You Like A Fanzine?) Poll for Star Wars fans!

[wyncatastrophe]

You guys:

Partly in protest of SOPA, and partly because I so obviously need something else to distract me from my coursework, I was wondering … would there be any interest in a new fan 'zine?

I've only just started trying to hash this out in my head, but what I'm thinking is that maybe "we" could create a layout of fics/other cool stuff which

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[pronker]

Hi, dipping a toe in this convo re TFN: I, too, thought my stories made not a ripple and three months later, went back to them to find three people had replied. The TFN site's email response is completely out of whack, and their 'big move' to someplace other than IGN, which was to have taken place over one year ago, has gotten snagged into a technical mire. If this anecdotal experience of mine is related to your experience, it would be interesting to compare. Mine weren't archived, as far as I know, but I really don't spend much time on TFN at all and haven't poked around there much lately.

Good luck with your story -- at least getting it e-published is easier than hard copy published? I

[pronker]

http://boards.theforce.net/communications/b10006/31876672/p2

There's the above big fat hairy thread on the problem, which remains as of 10/30. Some are concerned that n00bs will go somewhere else, and why not? Not being able to receive emails kills forums. I used the PM system last summer to ask a question and remembered a month later *har!* to check on it and it had been answered kindly by a mod, in a timely fashion, so they're getting IN data, but the whole OUT box is messed up. Bummer, because TFN was a starting point for my reading, and yes I lurked for about a year, and I enjoy the boards, just not as much as I used to.

[wyncatastrophe]

So my plan was to hold off on replying to any comments until I saw what kind of interest there was. Which, in the event, is "not much." (You can see the poll results for yourself.) Two people have offered to contribute fics; nobody has evinced much interest in editorial stuff; at least one person is definitely not interested. This doesn't necessarily mean that the project should not move forward, just that it needs some careful thought about the best way to approach it. Anyway, I just wanted to touch base with you and let you know that, yes, I am reading the comments! And thinking about ways to get this thing off the ground (maybe). I was looking, I think, for a greater number of people who would at least read the darn thing, assuming it's put together. So … yeah!