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.
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!
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.
Thanks, essvee and GfH. That is, in fact, how my husband eats oreos - all sandwich cookies, in fact. Now the Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup] does it too. I live with two weird people…
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!
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?
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.
“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.
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.
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)
