DargonZine
Volume 13, Number 6 |
Distributed: 6/30/2000
Circulation: 760 |
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Dargon Project, a collaborative group of aspiring fantasy writers on the
Internet. We welcome new readers and writers interested in joining the
project. Please address all correspondence to
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DargonZine 13-6, ISSN 1080-9910, (C) Copyright June, 2000
by the Dargon Project. Editor: Ornoth D.A. Liscomb
<ornoth@shore.net>,
Assistant Editor: Jon Evans
<godling@mnsinc.com>.
All rights reserved. All rights are reassigned to the individual
contributors. Stories and artwork appearing herein may not be reproduced
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Editorial
If you've been with us for a while, you'll know that each year one
of our writers hosts our annual DargonZine Writers' Summit, where our
contributors get together to talk about writing, conduct project
business, get to know one another, and have fun. This year's Summit was
held a couple weeks ago in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was hosted by
Dargon veteran Mark Murray.
This year, the working sessions were run by Jon Evans, and he did a
fabulous job moving us through a number of topics and activities, which
included discussion about how and why we write, incorporation, our
ongoing revision to the Dargon town map, our mentoring system for new
writers, a spontaneous writing exercise, and some great improvisational
storytelling.
Once the working sessions were over, the fun was only beginning.
Our weekend included excursions to the Andy Warhol Museum, Church Brew
Works (an old church which had been converted to a brewpub), the
Duquesne Incline (a scenic overlook of downtown Pittsburgh at night),
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Ohiopyle State Park (featuring an
amazing natural water slide), and an entertainment center where we
supplemented Summit traditions of go-karting and miniature golf with a
new activity: bumper boats.
Kudos go to Mark and Jon for putting together a very productive and
wonderfully enjoyable weekend. Photos and more detailed writeups of all
our Summits can be found on the Web at our Dargon Writers' Summit page,
<http://www.dargonzine.org/summit.shtml>.
In other news, people seem to be responding well to the ability to
"rate" each story, which we premiered in the Web version of our last
issue. We have included the rating sidebars in the stories in this issue
as well, and if the response continues to be favorable, we'll shortly be
adding those side bars to all our stories, both in our back issues as
well as future issues. Please try it out, and let us know what you
think!
In this issue Mark Murray, our recent Summit host and the owner of
DargonZine's mentoring program for new writers, begins a new series that
resumes his lengthy saga featuring Raphael and Megan. Similarly, our
one-time editor Dafydd begins another chapter in his extended Talisman
series, which has been slowly advancing from Dargon's ancient history to
the present. While the Talisman epic still has a ways to go, the events
of "Talisman Five" will start bringing the story together to its
eventual climax.
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