I can't believe I didn't see this earlier. Good god, I've been way too busy.

You are welcome for the issues and I loved it as always. I seriously wished I could have found my favorite Halloween Poem but I couldn't.

As usual, it was a great issues and might take into consideration with the jewelry <3

Funny note, it is 21 days after Halloween and I am still listening to "This is Halloween" by P!ATD and watching "The Nightmare Before Christmas." My 2 year old is such a demented little monster and loves the movie. I love him <3

Great issue Darky! I really like this, it is a good change form only having one really big LI a month. This way you can focus more on one thing and making it really great! I think you should definatly keep doing these minis.

  the article about How to Focus was really really helpful. I can use that in any thing form doing my daily math work to creating a graphic that I dan't want to make, or even when I am in Church listening to the preacher. I should defiantly try this next time I have to focus cause I have to say I have one of the shortest attention spans when it comes to thinking about some thing.

  Thanks for another great LI Darky!!! I love it and don't wait to long for another one, I don't have good patients either.

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IT IS HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!
Muahahahahah this will be so damn helpful in my new history classes... We went from a teacher that shows what she's telling and talks to you to a teacher that sits and talks to the computer and shows nothing..... Not gewd, people, not gewd.

And those foods nhom nhom nhom!!! I'd really want to try the crepes and quesadillas ones YUM!!

Since my life doesn't seem like it's getting any...slower...anytime soon, I would love to bring the LI back to its previous rate and possibly introduce special mini LIs in the middle.
I can't do it alone however. Not gonna happen. I need help.

This is a call out to all of the current member of the LI family and to anyone interested in helping. If you're interested in applying to/ continue working on the LI, could you please fill in the following form and post it here?

1. Are you an existing writer? If yes, which articles do you want to continue writing?If not, what kind of articles are you interested in?
2. Are you interested in helping with the graphics?
3. Are you interested in helping with the tumblr and/or website?
4. Are you interested in writing a multi-chaptered story for the LI?
5. Are you interested in making a comic for the LI?
6. Are you interested in proof reading?
7. What is your schedule like? We'll need to agree on a deadline for each person. That way I can have time to revise and the artists will get time to work on the graphics.
You'll also need to let me know ahead of time (two weeks at least) if you won't be able to make it that month. That way, I'll know that I'll have to replace you for that month. Or at least I'll find someone who would be interested to help for that month.
7. Finally, do you have any ideas or suggestions?

Keep in mind, that if you can't make it these days, you can apply again later. No probs at all.

Also if anyone, even if you're not applying, have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to let us know! You can PM me or post here!

1. Are you an existing writer? If yes, which articles do you want to continue writing?If not, what kind of articles are you interested in?
-yes. Poetry and LI Dictionary
2. Are you interested in helping with the graphics?
-I cannot do graphics
3. Are you interested in helping with the tumblr and/or website?
-This I can do
4. Are you interested in writing a multi-chaptered story for the LI?
-I can. I'll make time to do so. I need to get back into writing anyway.
5. Are you interested in making a comic for the LI?
-Again, not my field.
6. Are you interested in proof reading?
-I can do this as well.
7. What is your schedule like? We'll need to agree on a deadline for each person. That way I can have time to revise and the artists will get time to work on the graphics.
You'll also need to let me know ahead of time (two weeks at least) if you won't be able to make it that month. That way, I'll know that I'll have to replace you for that month. Or at least I'll find someone who would be interested to help for that month.
-We'll have to work this out month by month sadly due to school but we may be able to come up with something.
7. Finally, do you have any ideas or suggestions?
-Not off the top of my head.

Just e-mail for question, info, deadlines, etc.

Hi again Darky :) Been a while, huh?

1. Are you an existing writer? If yes, which articles do you want to continue writing? If not, what kind of articles are you interested in?
I used to be a writer for the LI. I'd love to start again if you don't mind!
The quest on OMD at the moment gave me an idea. I would like to do an article a month on a specific part of English culture. I haven't seen anyone else doing this yet and it would mean that I get to cover everything from fashion to architecture to dog shows :D Plus, I know most people on OMD aren't British so it would be very interesting. You could tell me what the theme of the issue is so I know what to focus on. Would that be okay?
2. Are you interested in helping with the graphics?
Sorry, I'm really bad at graphics or anything tech-related so nope.
3. Are you interested in helping with the tumblr and/or website?
Once again, very bad at tech-related stuff.
4. Are you interested in writing a multi-chaptered story for the LI?
I'd love to!
5. Are you interested in making a comic for the LI?
No, sorry.
6. Are you interested in proof reading?
Sure!
7. What is your schedule like? We'll need to agree on a deadline for each person. That way I can have time to revise and the artists will get time to work on the graphics.
You'll also need to let me know ahead of time (two weeks at least) if you won't be able to make it that month. That way, I'll know that I'll have to replace you for that month. Or at least I'll find someone who would be interested to help for that month.
I'm really sorry about how unreliable I was last year :( I promise I'll be much more reliable this time and I'll get the articles finished by the deadline you set! Just let me know when you need them by.
7. Finally, do you have any ideas or suggestions?
None that I can think of.

Just finished reading your mini issue! That was really helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this beautiful magazine and thank you Janghyunae for requesting the theme.

1. Are you an existing writer? If yes, which articles do you want to continue writing?If not, what kind of articles are you interested in?

Yup.. Sorta. OMD fashion. I don't mind any work though. A bit lazy but I'll do it. I shall be more responsible this time. Scouts honor.

2. Are you interested in helping with the graphics?

a) Depends on how.
b) I can make graphics like pictures and stuff. It'll be hard for me to do magazine pages and I know I'll probably ruin em. :/

3. Are you interested in helping with the tumblr and/or website?

Depends on how. :D

4. Are you interested in writing a multi-chaptered story for the LI?

Not alone. :D

5. Are you iterested in making a comic for the LI?

I can't draw very well. :D

6. Are you interested in proof reading?

YESSSSS!!!

7. What is your schedule like? We'll need to agree on a deadline for each person. That way I can have time to revise and the artists will get time to work on the graphics.

I go to school in the morning, come home at 2 PM and some days even at 4, eat, take my evening nap, wake up, eat, go onto OMD, if there's exams I'll study for around 20 minutes and then I go to sleep at 2 AM. :)

7. Finally, do you have any ideas or suggestions?

Picture make-up and clothing tutorials.
And pretzels. :)

Waw so many apps... -shoves mine in- Give Darky more stuff to read!! Yeaaah!

1. Are you an existing writer? If yes, which articles do you want to continue writing?If not, what kind of articles are you interested in?
I am not but I would like to. I currently run a fashion blog (mostly asian fashion but it has many types of it) so I would be leaning towards the fashion articles such as OMD fashion and Fashion Out There. I could help every now and then with the Kitchen section since I like to try new things (-ahem create magic potions-). Some curiosities sound interesting too and maybe the "SOS" articles. As some might know, I'm from Portugal and we have a very diverse vocabulary and I always found it interesting, it also made me try to search more on other languages as well so I could probably help with the Dictionary too. Lastly, the music section sounds interesting too and I'll suggest some more things down below (I think I just volunteered for almost every article...? Sorry)

2. Are you interested in helping with the graphics?
I can but I don't find myself at ease with it so, unless it's utterly necessary, I'll gladly give that spot to someone else.

3. Are you interested in helping with the tumblr and/or website?
Absolutely! I honestly really like the tumblr way of work so I can totes help with anything associated to it. The website, I can work my way on it as well.

4. Are you interested in writing a multi-chaptered story for the LI?
Bring it.

5. Are you interested in making a comic for the LI?
I could help with that. I'm not sure to what extent but I can help.

6. Are you interested in proof reading?
That sounds great, I miss doing proof reading actually.

7. What is your schedule like? We'll need to agree on a deadline for each person. That way I can have time to revise and the artists will get time to work on the graphics.
You'll also need to let me know ahead of time (two weeks at least) if you won't be able to make it that month. That way, I'll know that I'll have to replace you for that month. Or at least I'll find someone who would be interested to help for that month.
I have monday morning and wednesday afternoon free and I'm also free until 11am and after 5pm, max 8pm when I have meetings. Full weekend free.

8. Finally, do you have any ideas or suggestions?
We could do an art class! Since so many of us are artists in some way, we could show easy tricks or something like that, show different types of drawings (traditional and digital) and so on. I remember when I bought WITCH's magazine, they would teach how to draw each chara. And that brings me to the comic section and maybe the multi-chapter section: we could have events on people drawing the characters or we could set our own visuals of them and also teach how to draw them.
Something that could also be nice is an "Active section". You know how people are getting more and more addicted to the internet and they are losing their active side so maybe an article with fun stuff to do that helps that (instead of those maybe boring and expensive gyms everyday and so on). This also reminds me that most of us are females and, there's a part of us that is already adults and so on, but there are some that are still young and I've noticed that this part is "lacking" some things that are maybe basic such as posture (be it walking, eating, whatever), how to dress "healthily" (this includes right bras!), and much more.
I'm sure I'll remember more along the way but I'll just shut up for now...

Uh how about a deco article?!

Idea:
Like, when posting on tumblr, separate every article and tag them (e.g. #Fashion Out There, #And You Are) so if a person is looking for a certain article, it'll be easier to look up.
...
Oh, but like, you'd have to post the magazine from last page to first page to make them look in order. (You can also tag them #Issue no _ so if ppl are looking for a certain issue, they can find it too.)
...
Oh but then people can't reblog an entire issue- hm well you can also post another post with the entire issue compilation???
...
Okay, idk, but I feel like it might be somehow sort of useful, so I'll post this anyway.

Now that's what I'm talking about! I didn't expect so many girls to apply...let alone be so excited about this! I have a good feeling about this

Now...I'm currently working on deciding on whom is going to work on what. It's a great relief to know that I'm not going to be working on them all :D *phew*

But before I communicate any of that, I want to discuss two things:
1. Our presence on the web
2. Our communication regarding the LI
3. Team Name <- I'll tell you why this is important

For our web presence, and as xemo mentioned above, we need to make some decisions. I've been thinking about that in the last few days and came up with some sort of an action plan. But seeing that I've been in la-la-land lately, I want you girls to tell me what you think.

Our Website: The website, I've already started putting an initial design on Wix. I'm trying to think of the best way to have collaboration on that, but so far, it seems like only one person can work on it with one account...Still researching this.

Anyways, our website will get the complete magazine uploaded to it at the beginning of every month. It's not going to be in the form of picture pages like here, but actual combination of images, text and videos. It's going to link to our tumblr and facebook.

Our Tumblr: What I'm thinking is this. Unlike the website, ti's not going to get the whole issue on the first day of the month. Instead, it's going to get an article every day of the month until we run out of them. In the end, we're going to publish one post with all of the picture pages . That way if someone wants to share one page, they can. And if they want the whole thing, they also can. It will encourage people to follow.

I think I found a way to make more than one person admin of one tumblr page, so it's going to be easy for us to each share our finished articles. Of course we'll have to agree on the timeline of which article gets published when

Our Facebook: It's going to be directly linked with our tumblr, and it's going to be a group page. Same admins, most probably, are going to be responsible on sharing the same articles on both.

Is that okay? What do you think?

2. I don't like us spoiling our surprises here on the board. Soooo, I'm torn between depending on:
- PMs and emails
- Google Group
- Faecbook private group

Which one does each of you prefer?

3. We need a name. The free wix template goes like this:
Company/Team Name.wix.com/Website Name

I was thinking of some. I don't think I like them, but here they are. If you have ideas, share!
- Bookmark'ed
- WritersAlliance
- Tales About Us

That will also allow us to later, maybe, create different online magazines if we wanted to. All under the same team name.

What do you all think?

P.S: Our first issue is going to be released on the 1st of May. Meaning...we have the rest of this month to finish admin stuff, deciding on who will be working on what, deciding on roles  and next month to finish the articles (give or take).

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I don't have face book so either PM's or Google Group is awesome by me. :)

Well, for one thing, I am not allowed to go on Facebook, but Tumblr and all that other stuff is fine by me. Second, I would rather private messages and e-mails, rather than Google Circles because for me, Google Circles is for family and friend communication. And I can't for Facebook, so yeah. As for the name, I really like Bookmark'ed or Tales About Us. Bookmark'ed is my favorite. Will add more to this later... :)

I can't really using something OMD related as a title if we're going to have this as a website outside of OMD. Copyright issues. As much as I want to :(

I went with Writer Alliance since most of you girls liked it. I also went with lovely-insider since li would have made it very hard for us to be discoverable through search engines. THERE WERE A LOT OF LI's OUT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did however add a Did you know tip on our home page saying what Janghyunae posted about...That 'li' means 'I've read'. THAT WAS WAY TOO COOL!

Oh the reason I didn't go with webs is because the templates are so limited and our website would have looked like any other website. Wix also is better if we ever wanted to purchase our own domain and make it an official magazine ;)

oh. It seems like we're going to go with emails and PM then. I will make sure to email each of you on her own to avoid sharing your email with the others if you don't feel comfortable.

Finally, I'm now looking at all of your requests and matching you with articles. I've PMed some of you qith questions regarding their preferences ;)

If you prefer me to contact you through email, lemme know!