Editors: wish to thank, wish to elder

RantWoman reminds her readers of previous commentary about one would-be editor in her vicinity.
http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2013/04/edited.html

Were RantWoman to elder this Friend, she is grateful to trip over this item which does the job MUCH more nicely that RantWoman has found words to do:
http://www.lambswar.com/beyond-my-experience/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LambsWar+%28The+Lamb%27s+War%29


RantWoman's inner editor insists RantWoman omit a blog link for a particularly vivid shut-up message. RantWoman notes that one issue would be use of the phrase "season yourself." Another issue would be the former title attached to the erstwhile editor. A third issue: said Friend has the specific accessibility-related   job the Friend has because of a lot of blind people agitating and making people think outside their boxes! This does not guarantee the Friend is required instantly to know how to deal with every insufferable blind person who comes along, but it does make RantWoman feel entitled to ask the Friend to try.  In any case, RantWoman requests her readers hold in the Light the existence of such shut-up messages along with a tangle of other stresses of community. Now back to Editors!

RantWoman is thrilled, thrilled to report that recently she has had two different extremely positive experiences with editors, editors who were enthusiastic about RantWoman's initial offerings, editors whose suggestions made lots of sense or who could handle RantWoman needing to undo some of the proposed changes and tweak them herself.

In the first case, the WA Council for the Blind newsletter, the editor wanted RantWoman to interact about 6 more times with the article than RantWoman planned to. The editor let slip "usually we do not work this hard with articles, but yours is so GOOD." Did RantWoman mention that flattery will get you EVERYWHERE?

RantWoman notes that the newsletter does not overflow with visual interest. It's a newsletter by and mainly for blind people. RantWoman's article appears under her own name but it is a ways down the page under a heading something like Stars from Yesterday, Stars for today, Stars for tomorrow.

The WCB newsletter.
http://www.wcbinfo.org/newsline_june2013.html


Then there is Quaker print:
In the July August 2013 Western Friend. Sorry, though, looks like you either get to pay to get the electronic copy or find a print copy.
http://westernfriend.org/

Digression, of course having nothing to do with Disability: Understand RantWoman is naturally thrifty and not disposed to having paper clutter up her apartment. RantWoman's Meeting has a LOVELY library. All else being equal, RantWoman would read her Quaker publications at her Meeting's library. Except of course that RantWoman as a practical matter CANNOT read the print editions and is not charmed by the thought of paying for an electronic subscription so that RantWoman can read with one of her forms of electronic reading.

Remind RantWoman to bring up with Quaker publications some sort of library distribution option for the electronic version. OR offer a discount for electronic only versions. Look, RantWoman GETS that the more full-price subscriptions a publication can spread costs over, the better as far as staff and editing and other desirable standards. And RantWoman needs ways to share resources. And RantWoman is not clear of a path through this, which of course is why RantWoman gets to labor some more with Friends,. SIGH.