The
Obligatory Article
Otherwise
known as “Editor’s Note”
Or, “News
and Updates”
Gack. My classes have started. You may all tease me now—I deserve it.
Who cares
about me, though…let’s get down to the goodness of the month—the football, the
basketball preseason, the end (YES!) of baseball, the—oh, sorry. I mean, of course, the articles in this issue
of Yn Nor. Yes, of course.
We’ve got two covers this month,
one being the official cover and the other still available for the public to
view…here, actually, and it’s by one Ben Miff. (Notice, those who
participate in the Nonsense forum, what the picture actually is.) Please, readers of the ‘zine, contribute to
the cover section. I really really really really don’t want to have to do one
most months, as my artistic talent is way below limited. However, if you do not submit an appropriate
picture by a few days before the start of the next month, I will be using my own picture as the
cover, and yours will be relegated to the “secondary cover”. (Sorry, Mr. Miff…you’re the first to suffer
the consquences of this rule. It’s just too
much of a hassle for me to either wait to the last minute and have to make a rushed
cover then, or to make one at the last minute and then have it wasted by
someone else submitting late. Soggy.)
Fiction is a little low this
month, as my creative inspiration is still
gone and no one else seemed to be in a short story mood. That said, however,
let us applaud the return of a long-lost feature…SolegaleMoon’s previously
untitled fan-fic, now known as South Wind! The author would like to let the readers know
that these two chapters are “filler”, and that next month’s submission will
start to delve deeper into the plot. You
can also read the descriptive essay (it’s fictional, actually) The Market, by Vitora.
There are a couple of poems; one
is Northwind’s The White Stag, and
the other is Vitora’s Here. (Just so you know, look at Here sideways so you can see the wave
effect.) Of course, Fidget gives us yet
another wonderful SPAG poem, the title of which should be familiar to most (it’s
a Christmas song, sorta). There’s also a
goodly supply of humor—Spring’s crowd-favorite What’s
In a Name, focusing on foreign words this month; her Halloween story, about
what happens when you mix dear ol’ BJ’s world with that of the
trick-or-treaters; and Ben Miff’s excellent guide on how to survive our forums.
Once more, Yn Nor
is featuring a book review, on Erin Hunter’s Into the Wild; and a Redwall-related guest article (though maybe
Daquira is here to stay…) about the pros and cons of dueling.
And finally, the icing on the ‘zine’s
cake: the writing articles. Geo Holmes
once more brings us a way to get past writer’s block, that of the character interview, and Vitora gives some pointers on what makes
humor humorous. Another installment of
Character Design is here, this time heading back to the basics of character
creation. Northwind talks about the
short story in her article, about the ins and outs of writing short prose. Finally, we have our second Yn Nor Workshop, on freewriting this month.
I think I’ve about typed my
fingers off now—you may all kill me, for I did my articles the day before. All of them. Except for the essay. And so don’t feel bad if you procrastinate…even
your beloved (eh?) editor does it.
Happy Halloween…
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