tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69378434316017068662024-02-08T11:33:59.857-08:00My People's Friend Magazine Odysseysimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12815263684393507334noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6937843431601706866.post-48476323659731642652008-08-15T13:38:00.000-07:002008-08-15T14:00:41.683-07:00WoohooI have some peoples friends.. :D<br /><br />How excitings that!<br />All of you will agree that in terms of it being a long time<br />Very is not quite the word.<br />Extremely might do though.<br /><br />So as of tomorrow I shall start reading them and making notes<br />Obviously I'll be straight back here<br />Making astute observations about their content while mocking them relentlessly.<br />Entertaining and informative is a maxim to live by.<br /><br />Personally I'm not really looking forward to it<br />Eviscerating them is going to be fun but reading the actual stories *shudders*<br />Obligation compels me to though, so, needs must I guess<br />Perhaps though it wont be all that bad<br />Levity might insue<br />Energising me, compelling me to read more<br />Seducing me to their compelling worlds where everything works out all right<br /><br />Freakier things have happened...<br />Realistically though it will devolope into a tedium<br />Intresting at first then<br />Ennui setting in and a steady decline<br />Never the less I will persisit<br />Doggardly fighting on for you dear reader<br />Striving forth for your occural entertainment..<br /><br />:Dsimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12815263684393507334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6937843431601706866.post-67637299873505852212008-08-14T13:53:00.000-07:002008-08-14T13:55:57.705-07:00So.. a short while has turned ino over two weeks... lol.<br /><br />ho hum. at least I can still remember the website address which is a vast improvement on my other online consistanty journal type things.<br /><br />Still no People's Friends MAgazines though. *shakes fist*<br /><br />hopefully this sunday, hey?simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12815263684393507334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6937843431601706866.post-85731688930091264842008-07-27T14:18:00.000-07:002008-07-28T15:07:33.788-07:00sunday - adventrue continuesSo my mission to go to my Granddad's and nick his back catalogue of "El Frienderino" failed misserably as the usual visit to my granddad's transmorphed quite viscerrally into a barbeque at my uncles... so it goes. On the plus side I got to dump tackle some of my cousins... so you know that particular lining was fairly silver if not eventually blood splattered...<br /><br />Online reading has continued... "El frienderino del la peoples" has both short fiction contained on a page of about a 1.000 words, 4 page spread of a about 4,000 words and serials which are eaten by the elderly at breakfast.<br /><br />Fuck you and your derisive groan. It is late. humid as buggery in a greenhouse while ten thousand kettles perpetually boil and I've been drinking. be thankful that I can still type.<br /><br />...but also they have a kids story section.. which the stories run at 500 - 800 words, and they accept stories of the rhyming vernacular (see <a href="http://b3tapoemproject.blogspot.com/">this</a>... ignore typos. Also, mine are the two under the name of arrangedletters) which is going to my first aim to get a foot in the door so to speak.. I would of said to get a foot in "the friend" but that just sounds coarse.<br /><br />My idea as it stands so far is a nice little rhyming couplet jobby about Curiosity getting put on trial for murdering the cat. which will act as a parable of some form of how children should be encouraged to be curious to try and gain understanding of things they don't know etc... so dunno how that will go..<br /><br />still need to get some magazines though so I can mock them on here and take the piss/do an analysis of running themes through the stories and such.<br /><br />that'll do for now.<br /><br />speak to you in a few days no doubt.<br /><br />xsimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12815263684393507334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6937843431601706866.post-5984359951064788332008-07-26T04:32:00.000-07:002008-07-26T06:27:52.928-07:00Setting out the plan.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >For some strange reason, which I still don't fully understand, the idea struck me that I should set my self a challenge of trying to get a piece of short fiction published in People's Friend magazine.<br /><br />If your unfamiliar with the magazine you probably not aking your pension yet.<br /><br />This is what the "Friend" has to say about what it wants:</span><br /><br /><p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >"First, a bit about the</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >most important people —</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >the readers. Without them</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >there would be no</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >magazine!</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >They range in age from</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >about thirty to well over</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >eighty. They like being entertained — and dislike being depressed. They like realistic material, but not so realistic — with sex, violence, drugs, drink, etc</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >— that they are frightened or saddened.</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >They still believe in the sanctity of marriage and the importance of the family.</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >Our readers like people</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >— ordinary people, with</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >problems they can sympathise with, and in situations they can relate to. They're optimistic — they like to see something good coming out of a situation, or the redeeming side of a character.</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >They're practical women — and men — with ordinary interests and hobbies. They're always</span><span style=";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >willing to give a neighbour a helping hand and enjoy being with a group of friends.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Yes — they are traditionalist. And proud of it! So they like to see their values reflected in their "Friend". Many say that's exactly how they regard the magazine — as a friend</span>."</span></p><p><br /><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:14;color:grey;" ></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">This is far removed from where my usual comfortzone is while writing so, thought I why not test my self and see what I can do. I shall try and keep this regularly updated with the goings on of the process and such,</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:100%;color:black;" >Tomorrow, I'm going to my grandad and purloining the back catalogue of "friends" that he has to get some source material on style and subject matter and such. Fun!<br /></span></p>simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12815263684393507334noreply@blogger.com0