Teemings #14 : "Dry Bones"

[Eutychus]

Teemings #14 : "Dry Bones" (http://www.teemings.com/issue14/index.html) is now online and avaiable for your perusal.

Sadly, unless there is some great oublic outcry, this will be the final issue of Teemings. Submissions have pretty well dried up, we don't really get any appreciable feedback on what we're doing, and it's just getting too frustrating trying to get everything together to get it out on time. I think we've had a good run, though and I'm proud of what we've been able to put together. To everyone who ever had a hand in putting this thing together, you have my utmost thanks for getting us along this far.

[Caught@Work]

Noooooooooooooo!
Please noooooooo!
I read it each time it comes out.
It kills some time.
It makes me laugh.
Today it nearly made me cry.
Noooooooooooo!

Put out a request for people to submit.
Do all 20,000 members of the board know it's there (apart from an ocassional post reminding member to submit)?

There are more then enough witty posters out there to keep this going. Ask, scrounge, beg, borrow, steal (ok, maybe not steal).
Nooooooooooo!

Don't take my enjoyment away.
Please.

[Garfield226]

Say, if you get enough submissions for at least one more issue, would you consider a photo-essay or somesuch (submitted by me)?

If so, count me in.

[Ferret Herder]

:(

I liked Teemings. I'm not a good enough writer to submit anything, but it was still nice to read.

[Soul Brother Number Two]

Dogzilla's piece was especially nice. Great job, Dogzilla.

[Soul Brother Number Two]

You could always forget the deadline, and throw together an issue whenever you had enough stuff.

[FairyChatMom]

Well, dang - just when I was enjoying the heady excitement of seeing my story there, thinking I might start writing again...

But I can imagine it's a ton of work. And I suppose you have a life away from the computer and all that.

Still, I enjoy reading Teemings, even tho I don't provide feedback. And if it dies, I'll be sorry to see it go. <sigh>

[Bubba Ray]

I would be sad to see it go, I only submitted one article... always wanted to send in more but lack a good proofreader to make my stuff printable. Still I read every issue, it always has been good work.

[Soul Brother Number Two]

FCM, I enjoyed your piece as well. It was evocative and bittersweet. Plus I learned a new way to eat Oreos. How good!

[Gazelle]

Just finished Scylla's submission... Way to go, big guy!

Thanks for motivating me to run on an otherwise craptacular day. :)

[Gazelle]

And Dogzilla, you rock.

Give Hurshell some scratches for me.

[Gazelle]

FCM, sweet story...

[FairyChatMom]

Thanks, essvee and GfH. That is, in fact, how my husband eats oreos - all sandwich cookies, in fact. Now the Perfect ChildTM does it too. I live with two weird people...

[beegirl13]

Consider this post a small public outcry. I think essvee's suggestion is a good one. I wouldn't mind having the issues come out irregularly, as long as I get to read them. I'd understand if it was just too much work to keep it going, but I'd be sad to see it go, too. I think everyone who contributed to this issue did a great job. Thanks for sharing your talent!

[Dogzilla]

Goddamn it. I just shook all the rust off my rusty writing tools, wrote something that people actually read (and evidently liked -- thanks dopers, for your kind words) and guess what?

No more opportunities for Dogzilla to get more clips in teemings.

Now I'm just pissed off. That sucks.

Hurshell's going to be disappointed as well.

::wanders off muttering about finding new venues for dog essays::

Great. Ya think "Dog Fancy" pays freelance writers?

[Flutterby]

I've never really looked at this before.. I just realized that. I probably vaguely knew about it but I don't ever recall reading this.

I agree with not worrying about the deadlines and just putting up whenever you have enough stuff. I think I shall dig out some of my writings (the ones I have with me.. I have more but they are all packed away in another house) and submit.

[Algernon]

"Submissions have dried up..." Hmmm. I guess that explains why my submissions were accepted then. Lack of competition. Well, if you want to win, pick a race that no one else is running.

I'm sorry to see Teemings die. For me it was an outlet for pent up creativity. I suppose if I'm inspired to put pen to paper, I could always post in MPSIMS.

[DAVEW0071]

Any chance of special Teemings issues, when enough submissions are gathered?

I'd hate to see it go the way of Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post.

[Caught@Work]

Originally posted by Eutychus
Teemings #14 : "Dry Bones" (http://www.teemings.com/issue14/index.html) is now online and avaiable for your perusal.

Sadly, unless there is some great oublic outcry, this will be the final issue of Teemings.<<SNIP>>
How much is a great outcry?
A couple of hundred responses or are we getting close Euty?
I've always been intimidated by the potential editorial responses I may get if I submit anything, so I haven't.

Are the editors really demanding and change every second line you write, or does your stuff generally make it through unscathed? If unscathed, then I might submit next time.

[Algernon]

I've always been intimidated by the potential editorial responses I may get if I submit anything, so I haven't.
Are the editors really demanding and change every second line you write, or does your stuff generally make it through unscathed? If unscathed, then I might submit next time. I can only speak from my experience Caught@Work, but my stuff was published just as I submitted it.

After submitting an entry and not hearing anything back, I asked Euty if that meant it had been rejected. His response was "Normally when we receive something that we KNOW we're never going to use, we'll notify the submitter right away. If you don't get a form e-mail full of insults and bile, you can be pretty sure that we've put it on the stack for publication."

I'm pretty sure he was kidding about the insults and bile part. (grin)

[FairyChatMom]

Originally posted by Caught@Work
Are the editors really demanding and change every second line you write, or does your stuff generally make it through unscathed? I've submitted twice - unscathed both times. Of course, I don't know how you'de scathe a poem, but my current story is identical to my original Word file.

Euty, don't let it die! PLEASE!!! I'll send more stuff! I promise! I'll even help if there's anything I could do! Seriously!

[Dolores Reborn]

NO!!!!! I have read and enjoyed every issue! Advertise for more submissions---publish irregularly---but don't let it die! I loved Dogzilla's story, and FCM's story made me cry!

I am not a writer, or I would submit something....

[welby]

Man.

Only Teemings could possibly persuade me to get over my shyness and submit something.

I'll do it, Euty, and it won't even be a song parody.

Please don't stop, Teemings is one of my favorite things to read.

[Dogzilla]

I'm still pissed off I only get to be a One Hit Wonder. I had visions in my head of the Chicago Reader eventually picking up my work, then the Utne Reader... the Mother Jones... then a book contract. Okay, I was dreaming out loud but still.

However, if keeping this thread alive and campaigning for public outcry will save Teemings... count me in.

I realize Teemings isn't the only place we can all get published (without getting paid), but it's really nice to know there is a place for SDMB members. Teemings gives us writers a slight advantage over just cranking something out and hoping to find someone to run it. At least you'll read our work because we're members, if for no other reason.

I promise to write more dog stories if you'll just hang in there.

[Eutychus]

Hmm ... well ...

It seems to me that maybe we could just do with a few months off then. Maybe once I get some things in my home situation squared away and recharge some batteries here we could get back to it.

Well, okay ... go ahead and if you have submissions, go ahead and sent them in and I'll reconsider. Whatever you have; text, cartoons, photo essays, whatever.

In the meantime, be on the lookout in this forum for an idea I had this afternoon to pass the time for a fill-in issue.

[Persephone]

Are the editors really demanding and change every second line you write, or does your stuff generally make it through unscathed? If unscathed, then I might submit next time.

Caught@Work, I'm the senior editor, and Juniper200 is the associate editor. These are really fancy terms for "spellcheckers." ;)

In other words, we don't change much of anything. Spelling errors, the occasional punctuation error. Nothing that would change the actual content of your submission. And if we have a question, we ask. Really!

[Scylla]

Originally posted by Eutychus

In the meantime, be on the lookout in this forum for an idea I had this afternoon to pass the time for a fill-in issue.

I think an all bestiality issue is the way to go.