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!