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- Yo! Everyone out there, who dares to read my
- article! Let me introduce myself first. My
- name is Christine De La queen!! I was asked to
- write an article for this great mag.
- Since I am writing for a lot of other mags at
- the moment, I would like to say that it is hard
- to come up with an idea for an article for a
- whole new mag.
- So basically I got this idea; why not write a
- little about my new problem. Maybe it would help
- some to understand, and maybe again people would
- hate my boring article. Well, thats a chance I
- gotta take.
- Very often, you are asked to write an article
- for a mag. And your heart tells you do so, so you
- can help these poor guys in developing a mag.
- But getting an idea to an article, is very tough,
- when you are absolutely empty inside. Wolfman
- from Balance is ofcourse right, when he says, you
- can carry a note book with you, to where ever you
- go, and when you get an idea, you can write it
- down. Well, great idea, but walking around with
- a tiny note book in my backpack where ever I go,
- is not my idea of having fun. If I did that, I
- would strongly recomment myself that I teamed up with
- a real mag, getting to be a real journalist wizard.
- Maybe it will work for someone else, but not for
- me. Besides, when I have a great idea for an article,
- I will ofcourse remember it. I am not walking around
- with a humongues brain for nothing, you know!!!
- Lately people have been complaining about the article
- standard. Some people find the articles of a very
- low standard. Then I ask myself; "How can that happen"?
- Well, exactly the way I mentioned before. You are
- asked to write an article. And they dont give a shit
- weather you are good at it or not. Just write an article!
- And when the poor guy gets this message, he loads "Cygo" and
- writes a basket full of shit, because he really havn´t
- actually written anything before. That´s how the standard
- gets to be that low.
- Well, what can you do to make it better. Well, maybe
- the mag staff, should consider who they ask for such a
- task. Sorting out the articles later on, (for a new mag),
- could be a major mistake. Coz when you are almost ready
- to publish your first mag you more less don´t give a shit
- what kind of standard the article is in. You just think
- the articles will fill up spaces.
- Anyway, I would say that it would be pretty borring, if
- all articles was of a high standard. A mag full of only high
- standard articles can easily turn out to be the scene most
- borring mag. So somehow you have to find a balance in your
- mag. And that is pretty tough. So good luck to all you
- guys out there, dreaming of running a mag!
-