From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Is the WSFA journal eligible for fanzine Hugo?
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 16:20:36 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Ted's uncomfortably right, as usual.

How about, "Trust me, whatever criticisms your submissions garner won't kill
you outright? And of course, what doesn't kill us makes us older."

Ernest Lilley

Home/Office: 703 371 0226
EJ: 757 581 4146
email: elilley at mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted White [mailto:twhite8 at cox.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 4:15 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Is the WSFA journal eligible for fanzine Hugo?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Lubell" <samlubell at verizon.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:59 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Is the WSFA journal eligible for fanzine Hugo?

> At 06:02 AM 3/6/2005, you wrote:
> >Moreover, if the journal is not of sufficient quality for members to
> >consider it for an award, and since we have enough Hugos in the club to
> >launch an attack on a small city, not to mention the wisdom and
experience
> >of venerable (if cranky) fans...why aren't we helping the editor make it
of
> >that quality?
> >
> >Ernest Lilley
>
[...]
>
> I know that I'm guilty of not writing much for the Journal since I
stopped
> being editor and I'm going to start writing more.  But I think that club
> members who have been afraid to write should give it a try.  You get your
> name in print, on the Internet, and on the WSFA Journal author page at
> http://www.wsfa.org/journal/index/author.htm.  Check that page to see if
> you are listed, and if not, try to write.  Trust me, no one will
criticize
> your writing.

Let me get this straight.  You agree with Ernest that we should do all we
can to raise the quality of the WJ with better contributions -- but, "Trust
me, no one will criticize your writing."   Do you see no conflict there?

--Ted White