OK, I am off work, today, and thought that I would take a few moments out to provide an update on how the submissions are coming along for issue # 2.
It's looking bad, people. While the submissions cupboard isn't entirely bare, Old Mother Hubbard's selection of what to include is pretty darned thin. We made the first issue happen. But, can we do it, again?
Sure, we can. We're going to, in fact. It may just be a thinner issue, is all. But, we'll get it done. That's the hope, anyway.
This is the month of December. It's probably not the best time of year to be asking for submissions of articles, reviews, thoughts, and what not for a magazine that is fresh out of the starting gate. But, since it's the first new PBM magazine to come along in quite some time, perhaps a couple of you out there reading this will pull on your capes and your cowls and save the day for all of us.
There's some new ads coming in issue # 2 - but, only from certain PBM companies.
I would take this opportunity to remind one and all that this forthcoming issue, Issue # 2, will be the final issue published in the year 2013. So, if you've got an itch to scratch this year, then this will be the final opportunity to scratch it, PBM-magazine-style.
Also, I did create a poll to allow readers of the new magazine, Suspense & Decision, to give issue # 1 either a thumbs up or a thumbs down. The poll is located at the top of the thread that I just provided a link to in this paragraph. But, in case you missed it, click on the link, below:
One dilemma that will always be in our presence, that will always materialize in our midst, is uncertainty. Writing an article off the top of one's head is an unappealing prospect for many - and yet, the vast majority of what I write in any medium tends to be off-the-cuff commentary. To think is to delay, where writing is concerned. For some reason, many seem to suffer under the self-imposed delusion that one must already know what one intends to say, before one begins to set pen to paper or finger to keyboard. I assure you, this simply isn't so.
Writing, to me, is much like talking. Just speak (or write), and dialogue will follow quite naturally. If you continue long enough, then conversation ensures. Try it, if you don't believe me. What do you think this is, but me doing the same?
Articles for the new PBM magazine don't have to be verbose tomes. Rather, they can also be relatively short affairs, brief exercises in opinionated pretty-much-whatevers.
Love a PBM game? Just tell us why. Hate that turn-based game that they're running? Again, tell us why. If you can do that in four or five sentences, then that will work for me. But, if your opinion is a bit more substantial than that, and you require some breathing space to stretch your opinionated arms in, then by God, we've got room for you in Suspense & Decision magazine. If I have to, then I will shove the Mad Scientist out of his hammock in his laboratory, and we'll make room for what you have to say.
Rather than dwell on whether we shall be verbal peasants or literary kings, though, I shall move on to another topic. You know the one. You knew that I was going to bring it up.
That's right, my fair-weathered and big-feathered friends, I'm talking about the front cover of issue # 2. Just what the Hell is going there?
To be honest with you, I really don't know. I haven't decided. Should we go with a blank front cover, this time around (Just to see if anybody notices)? Or, should we incorporate an ad from a particular PBM or turn-based game right onto the front cover? Or, did anyone like the front cover of issue # 1? If so, or even if you didn't, how did our front cover for issue # 1 of Suspense & Decision magazine compare to the front covers of various PBM magazines from the past?
We want Suspense & Decision to be both entertaining and informative. We want it to be interesting. We want it to be fun. We want it to be something of value to you, our beloved, esteemed, and finicky readers. Since Suspense & Decision is a PBM magazine (Despair not, ye turn-based gaming adherents of other clans), I suppose that we're a part of the PBM family, now - like it or not.
That's right, boys and girls. We're all family, now. And you know what that means, right?
This seems like as good a stopping point as any to leave you hanging.
It's looking bad, people. While the submissions cupboard isn't entirely bare, Old Mother Hubbard's selection of what to include is pretty darned thin. We made the first issue happen. But, can we do it, again?
Sure, we can. We're going to, in fact. It may just be a thinner issue, is all. But, we'll get it done. That's the hope, anyway.
This is the month of December. It's probably not the best time of year to be asking for submissions of articles, reviews, thoughts, and what not for a magazine that is fresh out of the starting gate. But, since it's the first new PBM magazine to come along in quite some time, perhaps a couple of you out there reading this will pull on your capes and your cowls and save the day for all of us.
There's some new ads coming in issue # 2 - but, only from certain PBM companies.
I would take this opportunity to remind one and all that this forthcoming issue, Issue # 2, will be the final issue published in the year 2013. So, if you've got an itch to scratch this year, then this will be the final opportunity to scratch it, PBM-magazine-style.
Also, I did create a poll to allow readers of the new magazine, Suspense & Decision, to give issue # 1 either a thumbs up or a thumbs down. The poll is located at the top of the thread that I just provided a link to in this paragraph. But, in case you missed it, click on the link, below:
One dilemma that will always be in our presence, that will always materialize in our midst, is uncertainty. Writing an article off the top of one's head is an unappealing prospect for many - and yet, the vast majority of what I write in any medium tends to be off-the-cuff commentary. To think is to delay, where writing is concerned. For some reason, many seem to suffer under the self-imposed delusion that one must already know what one intends to say, before one begins to set pen to paper or finger to keyboard. I assure you, this simply isn't so.
Writing, to me, is much like talking. Just speak (or write), and dialogue will follow quite naturally. If you continue long enough, then conversation ensures. Try it, if you don't believe me. What do you think this is, but me doing the same?
Articles for the new PBM magazine don't have to be verbose tomes. Rather, they can also be relatively short affairs, brief exercises in opinionated pretty-much-whatevers.
Love a PBM game? Just tell us why. Hate that turn-based game that they're running? Again, tell us why. If you can do that in four or five sentences, then that will work for me. But, if your opinion is a bit more substantial than that, and you require some breathing space to stretch your opinionated arms in, then by God, we've got room for you in Suspense & Decision magazine. If I have to, then I will shove the Mad Scientist out of his hammock in his laboratory, and we'll make room for what you have to say.
Rather than dwell on whether we shall be verbal peasants or literary kings, though, I shall move on to another topic. You know the one. You knew that I was going to bring it up.
That's right, my fair-weathered and big-feathered friends, I'm talking about the front cover of issue # 2. Just what the Hell is going there?
To be honest with you, I really don't know. I haven't decided. Should we go with a blank front cover, this time around (Just to see if anybody notices)? Or, should we incorporate an ad from a particular PBM or turn-based game right onto the front cover? Or, did anyone like the front cover of issue # 1? If so, or even if you didn't, how did our front cover for issue # 1 of Suspense & Decision magazine compare to the front covers of various PBM magazines from the past?
We want Suspense & Decision to be both entertaining and informative. We want it to be interesting. We want it to be fun. We want it to be something of value to you, our beloved, esteemed, and finicky readers. Since Suspense & Decision is a PBM magazine (Despair not, ye turn-based gaming adherents of other clans), I suppose that we're a part of the PBM family, now - like it or not.
That's right, boys and girls. We're all family, now. And you know what that means, right?
This seems like as good a stopping point as any to leave you hanging.