Re: [epub] Re: set publishing dates , UKJ

[ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

From: ray@twoscoops.com

On 30 Nov 99, at 17:29, HMS wrote:

> From: "HMS" <hms@jet.es>

> I started with the good intentions of writing a bi-monthly ezine. It
> hasn't worked out that way. I've now gone monthly.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Pressures of work, certainly.
> But....
> I'm sure it depends on content.


You had enough content to go from 6 pubs a year to 12  ?  It's 
great when results exceed your plans like that!  

 I started as a weekly, went to a daily in September (although 
currently Two Scoops is back to a weekly for the month of 
December due to family issues and zine renovations).   

> But to write with the hope that you are actually trying to get a
> concept over, time constraints are the least of your problems.

what I found was that most worthy topics for my audience could 
not be crammed into cute little stand-alone paragraphs.  Instead 
each week becomes a five-part series, on a semi-consistent 
schedule of rotating formats: 

book studies, word studies, 'how-to' studies, etc.  

I write approximately 22 main articles a month, plus many of the 
accompanying bonus feature articles (that is the "second scoop" of 
two scoops-- each day a Minding Your Mind article, plus a variety 
of bonus articles, hence, Two Scoops)

Jan 2000 will determine if Two Scoops goes back to a daily, or 
remains a weekly, while the Two Scoops Business Edition, 
TwoScoops Kick Butt Edition and TwoScoops World Tour editions 
will all definitely be weeklies to start with.  (You saw it here FIRST, 
folks-- three new members of the Two Scoops family!)  

But returning to the thread --- if you don't publish on a regular 
consistent schedule that people can depend on, I fail to see the 
point of using this venue.  Artsy, avant garde, cultural and literary 
stuff can come out whenever it pleases, but for business purposes 
even when we work for ourselves we absolutely must "punch the 
clock", so to speak... errr.. in my humble opinion, anyway. 

Cheers! 

Ray Whiting
Publisher, Two Scoops
http://www.twoscoops.com 

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