Wait. What? That's not what I heard...

[maygra]

The No Stairway Anthology


To be upfront and honest, we're not quite ready for the reveal. Neither the comm nor the website are entirely ready, not all the process and procedures have been honed or tested, and our proposed staff have neither been allowed to review the project nor opted in on any level.

However, I seem to be doing a poor job of defining just what this project is and what it intends -- mostly because we've been using the procedure process to help refine our scope and better define our mission and goals -- but I did hear what people were saying and we did make note of their concerns. We can't guarantee this will satisfy everybody, but we do hope it at least gives people a place to start assessing what we plan on doing instead of what they think we are doing -- or even why.

People form opinions and take positions that are entirely valid to them -- and the information in the link below may change no one's mind, and it is as likely as not to generate more questions and possibly more concerns. Fair enough. But I'm sincerely hoping that at least some information -- as opposed to speculation -- might at least give the project a chance.

So, please go here: http://community.livejournal.com/nostairway/

at least this way, if you still think it's a bad idea, at least it will be the right bad idea.

*and for anyone keeping track, the "Anthology" part of the idea jumped in and wrestled us all to the ground around midnight Friday. *g*

Comments

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Because the process is geared more toward literary or hardcopy publishing than it is Just recommendations with caveats: i.e. there's a submission process, there's a screening process, there's an editorial review. What there isn't and won't be is a requirement for extensive rewrites on already published works. IF people want to go that route because they aren't accepted, we'll do our level best to assist them, but acceptance is based on a story as submitted, not on acceptance and implementation of edits.

And because the anthology volumes themselves will be themed. Some of them will be general and broad, others may focus on specific characters or types or stories by genre or theme.

If that single word is really a stop-block then I'll consider removing it, as for the other, I'd like people to be at least as serious about their writing presentation-wise, as I am about promoting it.

And given how I tend to post my own stories? There's a reason why I'm on the administrative staff and not on the editorial board, which is pretty much the same reason why I never did any of the heavy lifting when we published FWE. Ithink I have a fair grasp on what's good writing, but I have less of a skill at coaxing people (or myself) to make it better or even consistent.