Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:58:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org> wrote:

> You've bragged in the past about your copyediting, challenging
> anyone to find errors in the WSFA Journal.

More of a friendly challenge than bragging, intended primarily to get
more people to read it.  Including people who don't normally read
fanzines because they find typos as painful as sour notes.

> I do not share your love of minutiae, and have no desire to engage
> in the act of reductionism you call editing.

Hannah Shapero was quite annoyed that her name was misspelled.  I
think it's important to keep our artists and authors happy, so they
will come back next year.  I don't know and don't care whose fault
this was.  I just want to make sure it doesn't happen again next year.
I volunteered to proofread the thing.  I volunteer to do so next year,
and hope I will be taken up on it.

> And finally, I urge you to make of use some sort of legitimate
> layout program, or even word processing software.

If you want to make a motion that the club pay for the appropriate
software, I'd be glad to second it.  Other than photocopying costs,
the WSFA Journal is produced on a budget of zero.

> Hard copies of the journal with url's at the top and 'page 1 of x'
> at the bottom is amateurish.

I think it's good to have the URL, so that people know they can find
that issue, and other issues, online.  I think 'page 1 of x' is even
better.  With some old WSFA Journals, I can't tell whether there are
pages missing or not.  And some loose pages in the WSFA archives
obviously come from WSFA Journals, but I have no idea of telling
which issues.

But I'm always open to suggestions for how I can do it better.  If
most readers prefer no page numbers, I'll be glad to leave them off.