I think if you created a bible, you'd have to go much farther afield to get enough submissions to fill a book. And that's not even considering the time required to haggle over what went into a bible. We spent at least an hour on several separate occasions haggling over just what made someone eligible for inclusion in the first antho. If I recall correctly, we eventually determined that you had to currently live in Monroe or one of the adjacent counties -- former residents ineligible, non-residents but frequent visitors inelgible. But it took us something like three hours of hashing and re-hashing to get there. So how do we get to a bible, unless someone just gets to make it and nobody gets to criticize it?
Shared futures: That's one of those things that sound kind of neat to me when I first hear about them. But when faced with the idea of plunking down cash for one, I usually demur. Kind of a "great idea for somebody else to read" attitude. And while I like the idea of the challenge of writing into someone else's world, in practice I just don't think I'd do it. So again, you'd be limiting the submission field to people who are interested in volunteer sharecropping, if you will, and you're faced with the prospect of having a lot more reasons to reject someone. So again, your field gets smaller. I take basically the opposite view: I think there should be a very simple statement of theme, and permissive judgement on compliance. I think that's how you get the most people participating, and the best field of potential submissions. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:23 AM, cd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Having listened to Metatopolis, I'm thinking we should have made a > bible and followed it. Another idea, maybe not for the next antho, > would be a shared future. > > > I'm thinking that we need to break the next one down into > > smaller tasks with more hands to help keep things moving. We're all > > busy people and nobody wants to get bogged down with a huge job. > > We also need a longer submission period, I opine. > > cd > > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
