Spring Break, Site News

A Posts entry from Wednesday, March 21, 2007

4:11 PM

Raptor ManAs you may have noticed, the site hasn’t been updated very frequently as of late. Several of our writers have been, or are now, on Spring Break, so updates will be touch and go for a week or two. But there’s good news.

First of all, there’s a new layout coming that will solve some of the navigational issues that some readers have mentioned. Posts can be organized by author, more precise tags and less precise tags, and categories. Also, we’re going for a wider layout, since most monitors aren’t square these days.

But most importantly we’ll soon be opening the floodgates of submissions.

As you may have guessed by our spoatic updates, the staff’s main focus isn’t on writing for the blog. The blog is something to keep people interested and a way for us to express our seemingly endless opinions on lewd youtube videos, trendy music and bizarre politics. Ideally the main focus of the site will be on the “magazine” section we’re currenly crafting.

In about two weeks we’re going to be accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, scholarly essays, art, photos, music and other recordings. These will then be carved down by our staff into the source material we’re going to use to create our magazine. We’re hoping to creatue a unique multimedia presentation of the work of young artists and writers. This will take a month or so once we close submissions, which should occur when we feel we have enough material to present.

Thanks for your patience, we look forward to reading your work.

One Comment

Bryan Klausmeyer

I edited out a part of this because I’ve reconsidered everything. I’m going through an existential crisis not unlike Charlie Kaufmann in Adaptation. But what I think the readers should know is that the next incarnation of the Howler will be something a bit more intimate. I want the readers to feel like they’re reading personal narratives, and I want the structure to be focused around personalities. Personalities are far more compelling than synthetic structures, because it’s so impossible to define the nature of a structure. The design will hopefully reflect this conflict if I am able to successfully wrangle it.

I will probably be writing a long post about this trying experience when things settle down. I can’t stop thinking about the problem and it has lent itself to sleepless nights of false starts and brief epiphanies crushed under the weight of the hopelessness of my inability to comprehend what the Velvet Howler even is.

I really need a deus ex machina, and Andy Rutledge is only making me doubt myself. Le sigh.

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