# Teemings #14 : "Dry Bones" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324 "2002-12-08T17:43:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324/21 "2002-12-11T13:54:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324/22 "2002-12-11T14:18:17Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324/23 "2002-12-11T14:38:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324/24 "2002-12-11T14:48:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324/25 "2002-12-12T23:59:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324/26 "2002-12-13T01:06:40Z")
> [@](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324/27 "2002-12-13T01:14:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-14-dry-bones/141324.md?page=1)