Newsletter: Coming Soon...

[Ishida Sai]

Alright, you guys. We're starting to set up the Newsletter pretty soon. Eva and I (possibly Piper) will be working on making the Newsletter. So in this post is a plethora of aspects we must inform you about.

• 1. Each Newsletter posts will be completely up-to-date for each month. Yet we will make necessary changes to each of its sections like "Lonely Hearts" (article for people looking for partners) and "Staff Announcements" to be completely up-to-date for people, even if the month hasn't passed yet.
  
  
• 2. We will be relying on you guys to make summaries about your characters and the threads they are in. We only wish about 1 or 2 paragraphs minimum. Though we will make correct grammatical edits if necessary, so don't be too surprised if it looks different.
  
  • And of course, with Nascent's permission, we will award 25 points for each summary submitted to us by PM's. That's right. 25 points. With a twist, whoever has the best summary for the thread(s) they are in with another person are awarded these points.
  
  
  
• 3. There will be articles about open threads for anyone to join as well as Canon threads which has to do with this site's plot.
  
  
• 4. There may be also a plethora of Advice columns or even an interview of random characters!~ So we will randomly pick someone as our victim guest. We will be sending a PM, asking to interview you. And, of course, please don't let anyone know. We want to keep everyone in suspense.
  

So that pretty much sums it all up. Just be patient guys. We'll get this going soon, just enjoy your day~ And don't forget to vote! I'm setting the deadline until---

MAY 27TH, SUNDAY!

So hurry up and vote! Have a nice day.

[Eva Liu]

I say we combine 2 and and the first part of 3, and stick it into the Classifieds section with the Lonely Hearts. It feels kinda pointless for us, or the thread participants, to write a summary about a casual "I bumped into X at the park and had fun" thread and put it alongside summaries of the Zoo thread, for example. "Newsworthy" non-site plot threads: stuff like The Reckoning, or less spectacular but still unusual happenings such as two students barging into the school lobby raging drunk and trying to beat up everyone in sight. Not newsworthy: X and Y met here and went to go eat food.

I'm not sure if Mission Summaries are worth putting up here, but we can figure that out later seeing as there actually aren't any that have been completed yet (they're all still in various stages of completion).

Recap:

We'll have a Classifieds section, and this is where you hype it up and let people know that you have open threads they can join, or characters they can partner up with.

For our Lonely Hearts part of Classifieds, please let us know if you are actively seeking a partner and submit your paragraph or so about that character. The concept is based on newspaper dating requests, so it's meant to be a bit silly and exaggerated. You're going to sell your character, but don't flat-out lie about things.

I'll add in a rough example later on.

[Eva]

Unfortunately, I've been too occupied with staff work to be able to really devote any amount of time to this, plus Sai's been pretty pressed for time lately.

This is just a shout out for any interested parties who may be willing to take up this task. I can help out with advice about direction, etc. and Sai already has a few things written up if you need examples. You are in no way bound to carry out only the ideas that we've laid out so far; input is greatly appreciated.

Honestly most of the work you'd be doing is organizing all the information into an easy to read format, acquiring thread summaries from participants, and coming up with IC-related funnies columns and such.

[tokoz]

I think this looks pretty cool, actually. I'll take up the job. *Puts on old newspaper editor visor and glasses.*