On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Heather Tucek via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
> As per request from a caver unnamed, I'm posting this here too. You know, > just in case I haven't already royally pissed you off yet. But you know > what? Worth it. > > > > The Texas Caver has just been sent off to the printer. This is the May > issue of the Texas Caver. Why is it almost August and the May issue is only > finally being printed? Why, it's because no Texas Cavers actually send in > trip reports to be published! We can't make a newsletter/magazine if > there's nothing to put in it. > > I know LOTS of you have gone on a number of Texas caving trips in the past > couple of months. I know LOTS of you went on plenty of AMAZING TAG trips > this month. Why is no one sending in articles? Jill spends an exorbitant > amount of her personal volunteer time making the layout, editing, adding > photos, etc. All the things needed to make the Texas Caver a great > publication. We won one award at the Publication Salon at the NSS > Convention. ONE. How many did other organizations win? You know why? > Because they actually have stuff to publish!!!! > > There's an article about Texas Caving in the most recent NSS News. Why? > Why isn't that article in the Texas Caver? Just because it goes in the > national magazine doesn't mean it can't also go in the local magazine. If > you're going to put one together for NSS, go ahead and copy Jill on your > email! (I've seen this a number of times, not just this month). > > Bottom line is, if you want to see your Texas Caver magazine in the mail > anymore, you need to man up, be a part of the answer instead of the > problem, and start sending in your trip reports and photos. If you don't > want to publish something because you think you can't write, have someone > copyedit it for you first. I'll be happy to go through and fix spelling and > grammatical errors, as long as you SEND SOMETHING IN!! > > > > > TL;DR > Start sending articles and photos to the Texas Caver or I will camp on > your front doorstep until you write something down. I know who you are. > > /end rant > > > -- > *Go find out!* > -Heather Tuček > UT Grotto, DFW Grotto > TSA Secretary & Membership Chair > NSS 59660 > (512) 773-1348 > trog...@cavechat.org > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cavetex > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > > -- Charlie Loving
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