[Northkeep] Question about the Saga and a suggestion

Kathryn Helstrom kiamichikate at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 18:25:29 PDT 2011


Greetings to the Esteemed Lady Ismet!

Indeed, filling out the #$%&# paperwork can be annoying.  I am on a quest to
make this part of the submission process as easy and simple as possible.  If
anyone sends me an article, poem, recipe, photo, etc., they want published
in the *Nordic Saga*, I will do my utmost to get the paperwork done in a
fashion to minimize any annoyance.

Just send me the article!    The rest will come together.  I will do what's
necessary to get the forms submitted according to SCA law.  It is just part
of life in the 21st century, dealing with frivolous lawsuits and
hyper-sensitive lawyers, from which we all try to escape by playing in the
Current Middle Ages. I view this as my part of making the game fun, by
taking away as much as I can of the mundanity of publishing an article in a
newsletter.  Look for the simplified *Nordic Saga* Publishing Instructions
to appear on this list soon.

Facebook, Twitter, and other WWW sources are faster and more current for
news, photos, and commentary.  However, the growth of online magazines has
also skyrocketed, and traditional articles abound in those as well.  We just
need to make the *Nordic Saga* more relevant.  It is a perfect venue for
folks of all persuasions to produce a properly edited and illustrated
missive.  For example, the Scotch Eggs recipe has been posted on this list,
but two months from now when I want to make them, it'll be a @#$% pain to
try to find that email.  However, if the recipe is published in the *Nordic
Saga*, well, then, it's in my SAGA folder on my computer.  Easy to find.
 Ideally, we will have so many articles coming in that we will have to have
a Table of Contents in each newsletter!

Send me those articles!  Send them to kiamichikate at gmail.com

Ismet, thank you for your suggestion to publish the handouts from classes.
 This will be a great source for me!  This prompts me to ask: Does anyone on
this list have some of your old handouts in a folder on your computer that
you could just forward to me?  I'll publish them, along with photos or
artwork, as you like.  Don't sweat the releases.  I'll make it as easy as I
can for you!

Heartily,
Franziska von Locknitz
Chronicler for the Barony of Northkeep



On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner <
BurgBorrendohl at valornet.com> wrote:

> On 10/21/2011 8:45 AM, Marc Carlson wrote:
>
>> g.   Filling out the $#%# paperwork is a drag.
>>
> This is one of the main reasons I had a hard time when I was chronicler and
> it has actually gotten more $#%# from what I hear.  I would have some
> pictures from a NK event and/or photo opportunity and finding people who had
> moved or were no longer active to fill out the paperwork was a pain.
>
> As a Chronicler I got copies of other groups' newsletters and was also
> impressed by the number of articles that were submitted.  However, to be
> fair, many of those articles were submitted by the same prolific writer
> (probably a close friend or family member :-) of the chronicler) or just
> someone who had a lot of knowledge to impart.  On the Chronicler's list it
> was a constant complaint that they couldn't get their groups to submit even
> officer's reports.  I must take a moment to thank Honorable Lady Debroa for
> consistently providing sheep articles.
>
> I like the idea of a newsletter for a group, but in all honesty, I wonder
> if it has surpassed it's usefulness.  In today's world of the internet wiki
> pages and Facebook (and whatever else is out there that I don't know
> about--still living in the email stages here), information is more quickly
> dispersed on the world wide web.  People would post wonderful stories about
> Gulf War happenings, or an event they attended on NK list and I would
> constantly beg them to let me publish it in the Saga instead next time.  But
> it rarely happened.  I started a series of posting persona stories, but soon
> that was also done in a slightly shortened version on the NK page Zubedah
> set up (please, this is not a complaint against Zubedah--I loved her pages).
>  I found myself trolling other lists and begging interesting stories from
> people who posted.  My husband's squire brother, for example, was a very
> amusing story teller and I included several of his.
>
> As Marc has pointed out this has been a problem for a long time.  When we
> used to subscribe to the Saga with payment the first time I was Chronicler,
> I approached a member (no longer active) to ask if they wanted a
> subscription.  She told me, "I don't subscribe to the Saga because there's
> never anything in it worth reading."  Well, that hurt my feelings, but it
> shouldn't have.  After all, if there's nothing in it, it's because no one is
> submitting anything, it's not the Chronicler's fault.
>
> And from a previous suggestion, I was assured by the Northern Regional
> Chronicler that recipes could not be copy-write protected.   Of course, that
> was several years ago, I don't know what the current party line is now.
>
> Another suggestion: Teachers, when you make your handouts for your classes,
> give one to the Chronicler to publish.  It's already written.  I can't tell
> you the number of times I wanted to take a class, had a time conflict and
> would have appreciate the handout.  And the Chronicler is advised to take
> forms with her/him to events like Winterkingdom.  Approach visiting teachers
> and ask permission to print their class handouts. /Most/ are flattered.
>
> Sorry if I'm long winded again...but a subject dear to my heart.
>
> Disclaimer:  Nothing said here was intended to offend or accuse anyone and
> if it was taken that way, please forgive me,
>
> Ismet
>
>
>
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