Your friends here at DU have launched our new online literary magazine!

[joeybee12]

Those of us who visit the Writing Forum have lunched our first issue of our online literary magazine, The Necessary Language. You can visit it (and we hope you will) at www.thenecessarylanguage.com

We started this as a way for us unpublished and under-published writers to get a forum for our work. We also see it as a learning experience, so we do not edit pieces submitted.

The magazine will be quarterly, and if you’re interested in submitting to future issues, you can PM me (although I leave tomorrow for 3 weeks in Europe!) and I can give you more information. We ask that submissions be sent in plain text to [e-mail]

Currently we take fiction—short stories, short shorts, poetry, artwork and photos. In the future we may take non-fiction and essays if there’s a great interest in this.

In the meantime, have a look, and tell your friends. We want EVERYONE to read this!

Na shledanou!

(Note to Mods—this is being posted in a few forums so we can reach as many of our fellow DU’ers as possible—please don’t lock! Thanks!)

:bounce: :loveya: :hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. And I have posted a link to it from the index

of the company website

[oneighty]

2. And I read those stories

even read mine again Hahahahaha

It is a nicely set up site with good stories. I hope it lasts.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear 180!

It had better last! I love it!

[oneighty]

4. I am preparing

a long boring study on futility and failure for the next edition.

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[frogmarch]

5. Is the website down?

When I tried to access it just now, I got a "This Page Cannot Be Displayed" notice.

[oneighty]

6. Try

www awesclarkdemocrat.com

That worked for me.

thenecessarylanguage.com did not.

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[frogmarch]

7. Thanks. Is there

a link to the necessarylanguage website posted on the awesclark website? If there is, I sure don't see it.

[oneighty]

8. I have it in my bookmarks.

went right to it.--the aws one.

thenecessarylanguage.com does nothing for me.

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[frogmarch]

9. When I

enter www.awesclarkdemocrat.com into my browser's search slot I get a Wes Clark support page.

[oneighty]

11. hmmm

I guess I cannot help.

My bookmark takes me right to the necessarylanguage page

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[oneighty]

10. Joeybee is in Europe

Guess might have to wait his return.

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[frogmarch]

12. Darn.

I've already read the stories and poetry there, and I enjoyed them so much that I wanted to read them again.

Maybe you can tell me what the story guidelines are. For instance, are all fiction genres accepted?

[oneighty]

13. I think any type

of writing goes.

Joe will be learning from the first issue.

You read 'KAZUKO'? that is mine.

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[frogmarch]

16. The site's back up

Yay! Now to bookmark it.

"Kazuko" is the most realistic story I've ever read, and the writing style is totally unique. Wonderful can't begin to describe "Kazuko." Why aren't you famous, 180?

[oneighty]

17. Kazuko

Is a true story about Kazuko and me. I wrote it with tears and great emotion.

Thank you for the kind comments.

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[joeybee12]

14. Yes! All forms and genres we'll take!

Greetings from Prague--hope you see this--gotta run!

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. We did, we did and I found

the one I actually intended so it will be submited for next issue, it is a horror piece...

Now back to work with me after sharing a great wikki like object I found on the web, which I am using for my universe notes

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

[Adelante]

19. frogmarch, see my post below nt

[frogmarch]

20. Thanks, WesDem

Just now saw it. :thumbsup:

[Adelante]

18. The link is working

http://www.thenecessarylanguage.com/


alternate:

http://www.awesclarkdemocrat.com/necessarylanguage

I'm hosting it on my blog site, but the first link should be fine.

[frogmarch]

21. Thanks for the

links, WesDem. Now I have both ways in bookmarked.

Thanks too, for hosting The Necessary Language on your blog site. :)

[Adelante]

22. I'm happy to do it

I think it's a wonderful project :)

[joeybee12]

23. Ano, dekuje vam mots!

[frogmarch]

24. Can anyone tell me

how to go about submitting a story to Necessary Language? Do we just email the story to the addy shown at the website, or do we email joeybee for permission first? If we are supposed to just go ahead and submit, do we format the story for paragraphing, italics and the like? If so, do we use real HTML with < >? I understand submissions should be in plain text, so I assume we should use HTML tags for italics and so forth when we submit. Yes? No?

I know joeybee is out of the country, but I thought maybe one of you guys could clue me in so I'd get an idea of what's what.


Thanks. :-)

[oneighty]

25. He will likely

answer this post. If not I have the info.

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[frogmarch]

26. 180...

Thanks. I was getting a story ready, and it dawned on me I didn't know how to go about submitting it and how to format it and stuff.

It's not an emergency, of course. Just thought I'd throw it out there. I can wait for joybee to respond if he sees my other post, or you could PM me the info if you wouldn't mind. Either way is okay with me.

[oneighty]

27. Joey

Is shooting for the first of May which will require the stories be in his hands about a week or more before then. PLenty of time. I will PM the addy later.

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[frogmarch]

28. Thanks

Yes, plenty of time. Okeydokey then, 180. Muchas gracias.

[Adelante]

29. [e-mail]

That's where you send it :hi:

[frogmarch]

30. WesDem

Thanks. :-) Do you know how submissions should be formatted for italics, paragraphing and the like? (Or don't paragraphs have to be tagged for HTML?) And does The Necessary Language use brackets for HTML codes as DU does, or does it use < >?

I emailed the questions to The Necessary Language, so if you're not sure or would rather joeybee address them, I don't mind waiting till he replies.

I'm looking forward to the spring issue of TNL, even if I myself chicken out and don't submit anything. :P It's a wonderful opportunity for DUers to showcase their work.

[Adelante]

31. Best is not formatted except for paragraph breaks

The formatting seems to get stripped out, anyway, and lost paragraph breaks are really a pain. But once the piece is up, you have the chance to look it over and specify changes, so any jazzy formatting you want done can be done. Be sure to put the text inside the body of an email and not as an attachment. No chickening out! :spank: Did you see the new DU journals? How cool is that?

[frogmarch]

32. OK, Wes Dem

Thank you much. :-)

I haven't checked out the DU journals, yet. I'll do it now. Yes, how cool is that?

[Adelante]

34. Your Journal looks lovely

I hope I find some time tomorrow to get mine going.

[frogmarch]

35. Thanks!

I'm still messing with it a little. Fun!

I hope you do get yours going tomorrow. (I've been checking to see if it was.)

[mdmc]

33. very cool