The Obligatory Article

Otherwise known as “Editor’s Note”

Or, “News and Updates”

I lie here, curled up in my new fuzzy Sonics blanket, a-ready to gloat. And pardon me if I sporadically laugh at you during this article—I still have a nice long while until school starts…twenty-seven days from this writing, actually. So ha ha ha. Now on to the important stuff (tee hee).

Despite being absent for a month due to its writer’s many-hour job, the fan-fic staring Mynede the weasel-ess will be back next month in all its two-chapter glory. (Hmm. Many dashes.) SolegaleMoon once more will grace us with an installment of her story, and though she claims that it’s filler to set up next time’s big one, I personally wouldn’t believe her. It’s good, really; and you can read it come the October issue.

There’s fiction here though, too—a piece by Vitora, a short story called Midnight Dance, and a poem written by Northwind of Otters entitled Light and Shadow.

Well, humor abounds in this issue, as usual—and not your typical breed of humor. Eh, it’s typical for such a wild, bizarre place as the Golden Pen Forums, but…ordinarily, I wouldn’t say that llamas in Redwall were typical. But…well…here, they are. As well as explosive factories, penguin priests, and shrines made of banana bread. However, if you want to know more about that nonsense, you’ll have to come and visit us sometime. Anyway, as well as the article by Spring about llamas coming to Redwall, she’s also contributed another one of her excellent What’s In a Name series, detailing rocks and minerals and the like. And looking for humor a little more on the realistic side? Try this month’s Random Interview, with the one and only FwirlDaSkwirl. Okay, well, it’s not exactly realistic, but it’s still better than llamas. *shudders*

As usual, Fidget gives us a wonderfully informative and clever SPAG poem, this time with a more detailed explanation afterwards. Ben Miff adds another to his series of Character Design articles, explaining character interaction and how it can affect your story. As is appropriate for epic survival fics, Operation: Sandstorm! has been given two articles, one from Cairn and one from Vitora, so that people interested in reading the current posts but not all the past six pages per team can quickly catch up and jump right in to the story.

And of course, we have writing-help articles—Windsong’s dialogue rant, a very useful piece on how to compose memorable and realistic dialogue; Geo Holmes’ dialogue activity, to get your writer’s block out of the way; the first in an activity series, Yn Nor Workshop, with which you can create a character from scratch; and Northwind’s excellent piece called Poetry on Demand, explaining the finer points of writing poems.

How could I forget our wonderful (and annoyingly cute) cover? Many thanks go to Windsong for her excellent artwork.

I hate to say it, but it seems as though RP First Aid isn’t going anywhere. Readers of Yn Nor, if you’d like to advertise, there is absolutely nothing stopping you. Go on, shoo, quickly now, post where you’d think people would be interested, ‘cause we aren’t getting anyone in need of RP help.

For now…until next month… Hee hee hee! 27 days! *snickers*

Uh, yeah. Farewell, and enjoy the issue!