The Obligatory Article

Otherwise known as “Editor’s Note”

Or, “News and Updates”

Heh, if Deyna and Cyra hadn’t been able to write their articles this month, we would have looked like an advertising agency. Sheesh. As it is, we’ve got some exciting new features to announce in this issue.

Care to take a look?

Our usual lineup is still around, of course—Spring’s got her usual What’s In a Name (this time on real-life names), Ben Miff contributes a lovely (is that the word I really want to use?) article on villain-ness, and Fidget gives us an excellent SPAG poem on a word that might be confusing to some of you, “there” and its many variations on spelling. SolegaleMoon’s next installment of her fan-fic is here as well, and it is an excellent one, I might add.

Vitora has an article on point of view, and Northwind of Otters has contributed a very useful commentary on the merits (and drawbacks) of outlining. Miss Brookring has given us yet another hilarious humor article, and finally, Geo Holmes contributed a touching story/article about the next generation of ROCers.

On to the announcements. The Golden Pen will be springing two new features on readers, both coming before too late into next month. One is called RP First Aid, and will be a place for—oh, go and read the article already! No need for me to be repetetive here.

The other is one that I consider more exciting. The Golden Pen is holding its first survivor contest, a science fiction story featuring human characters, called The Brink. You can sign up for it by reading the article and clicking on the link at the bottom of said page.

One more note before I let you go: Strider has created the beautiful cover for this month, as well as the logo you’ll see above the article list. Many thanks to him for the excellent images. And Vitora and her newfound love for Photoshop 6.0 teamed up to make the logo on this very page, and you’ll probably see more of her work in the months to come.

If you would like to contribute to Yn Nor, ask questions related to the e-zine, website, or survivor contest, or contribute next month’s cover, please email me at willows_the_golden_pen@yahoo.com. Also, you can discuss this issue at the forum—feedback on articles is always welcome. Oh, and one more thing (yep, I’m going to keep saying that…): if you want to directly send in a cover, please leave all text off. In case of two or more contributors, I would like to be able to use all images I receive, and obviously not in the same month, so text (a title and date, really) would simply mess things up.

Happy Fourth of July, and have a fun, safe summer!