In Search Of … Writers
Edit: Submissions are now closed.
So it’s been a couple weeks since Jeff was able to break radio silence; Tuesday‘s been pretty busy, as well. And as much as I enjoy blathering on here, Fleen’s really set up to provide more than one viewpoint. So if you’re opinionated about webcomics, today is your lucky day.
Jon made an appeal for contributors back when we started up, which was pretty much met with the sound of crickets. And honestly, who would bother applying to write for a brand-new blog with no track record? Well, Jeff and I did, sorta, but we we’re strange. But since today marks four months since we started writing in earnest (in advance of the announcement, actually), and since we seem to have attracted some mindshare, it seems like an opportune moment to re-solicit. To quote Jon:
If you’re interested in being a contributor, send us at least two webcomics-related sample posts and me and the writers will try and pick a couple of candidates from amongst the interested parties. The compensation is so small that you may not even notice it is there, but I promise you it will be a fun gig.
Now that we’re established, Jon’s not really into the day-to-day overseeing of the site; it’s pretty much me that you’ll have get past (although, a copy of your submission will be left for Jeff via a dead-letter drop; when he’s certain he’s not being watched, he’ll send us a coded reply via secure channels). The original criteria remain:
- a post a day, barring major circumstances
- has to be about webcomics (although perhaps tangentially so)
- you have to be able to write in a clear and cogent manner (disciples of Strunk & White, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and This American Life always appreciated)
- you can’t be a webcomics creator; we’re looking for audience perspectives here
Extensive webcomics reading habits are not a prerequisite. In fact, if you’re relatively new to the scene, watching you discover things for the first time and reporting on it would be downright useful. And don’t feel that you have to know lots of people on the inside — trust me, you’ll be getting email from them soon enough, and finding out that they’re pretty much cool people to know. So fire up the text editor of your choice, send us some words — review, analysis, critique, interview, wildly inaccurate jokey piece that gets mistaken for serious — and let us see what you got. Who knows? You could be the next Eric Burns, and then fame, fortune, and Peeps are yours for the asking, my friend.
