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Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« on: September 16, 2011, 04:19:53 PM »
I am setting out the magazine .... if there is one thing I hate when reading a magazine it is getting into an article only to find "Continued on page 63" and having to leaf through to find the last paragraph.
SO I set a word limit of 650 for any articles submitted...... Because I can fit that onto one page.

This month 6 YES SIX people have sent in articles that are over 800 words.  Banghead Banghead Banghead

This means that I am spending hours re-arranging adverts (which normally sit in the same place month on month) to fit things in on facing pages so that the readers do not have to keep thumbing back and forth to find the last paragraph or two of the item they are reading.

B@ST@TRDS!  cussing:


Thank you for your attention ..... I feel a little better now.

Breath in slowly ..... and out .... repeat 6 times. Take valium and move on.
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2011, 04:23:43 PM »
It'll be more interesting like that....  whistle:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2011, 04:36:01 PM »
YOu could put "continued on page 63" and not have a page 63 like eveilgrin:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2011, 04:39:00 PM »
Quote from: Nick on September 16, 2011, 04:36:01 PM
YOu could put "continued on page 63" and not have a page 63 like eveilgrin:

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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2011, 04:40:41 PM »
Or Part 1 of 2....  whistle:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2011, 07:53:43 PM »
Or 2 of 3
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2011, 08:01:46 PM »
Or make the font smaller until it fits on one page.

Probably nobody reads them anyway.   whistle:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2011, 08:05:45 PM »
Or translate them into Welsh  whistle:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2011, 08:06:09 PM »
I thought this was a thread about some new small city car  rubschin:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2011, 08:08:35 PM »
 doh:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2011, 08:47:17 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on September 16, 2011, 08:06:09 PM
I thought this was a thread about some new small city car  rubschin:




It could well be Uncle have you lost your verb verb verboom?
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2011, 08:58:14 PM »
Ahhh...Nicole

nicole et papa
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2011, 09:02:56 PM »
I had one of those.

A Clio, not a Nicole sadly.  noooo:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2011, 09:03:11 PM »
Pert alert  cloud9:
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Re: Verbocity ~ The Bane of My Life
« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2011, 09:27:35 PM »
Quote from: Nick on September 16, 2011, 09:03:11 PM
Pert alert  cloud9:

More like perv alert.
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