| DargonZine Volume 13, Number 6 |
Distributed: 6/30/2000 Circulation: 760 |
| Editorial | Ornoth D.A. Liscomb | |
| Magestorm 1 | Mark A. Murray | Yuli 1017 |
| Talisman Five 1 | Dafydd Cyhoeddwr | Vibril 16, 1010 |
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DargonZine 13-6, ISSN 1080-9910, (C) Copyright June, 2000 by the Dargon Project. Editor: Ornoth D.A. Liscomb <ornoth@shore.net>, Assistant Editor: Jon Evans <godling@mnsinc.com>. All rights reserved. All rights are reassigned to the individual contributors. Stories and artwork appearing herein may not be reproduced or redistributed without the explicit permission of their creators, except in the case of freely reproducing entire issues for further distribution. Reproduction of issues or any portions thereof for profit is forbidden.
Editorial
by Ornoth D.A. Liscomb
<ornoth@shore.net>
IIf you've been with us for a while, you'll know that each year one of our writers hosts our annual DargonZine Writers' Summit, where our contributors get together to talk about writing, conduct project business, get to know one another, and have fun. This year's Summit was held a couple weeks ago in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was hosted by Dargon veteran Mark Murray.
This year, the working sessions were run by Jon Evans, and he did a
fabulous job moving us through a number of topics and activities, which
included discussion about how and why we write, incorporation, our
ongoing revision to the Dargon town map, our mentoring system for new
writers, a spontaneous writing exercise, and some great improvisational
storytelling.
Once the working sessions were over, the fun was only beginning. Our weekend included excursions to the Andy Warhol Museum, Church Brew Works (an old church which had been converted to a brewpub), the Duquesne Incline (a scenic overlook of downtown Pittsburgh at night), Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Ohiopyle State Park (featuring an amazing natural water slide), and an entertainment center where we supplemented Summit traditions of go-karting and miniature golf with a new activity: bumper boats.
Kudos go to Mark and Jon for putting together a very productive and wonderfully enjoyable weekend. Photos and more detailed writeups of all our Summits can be found on the Web at our Dargon Writers' Summit page, <http://www.dargonzine.org/summit.shtml>.
In other news, people seem to be responding well to the ability to "rate" each story, which we premiered in the Web version of our last issue. We have included the rating sidebars in the stories in this issue as well, and if the response continues to be favorable, we'll shortly be adding those side bars to all our stories, both in our back issues as well as future issues. Please try it out, and let us know what you think!
In this issue Mark Murray, our recent Summit host and the owner of DargonZine's mentoring program for new writers, begins a new series that resumes his lengthy saga featuring Raphael and Megan. Similarly, our one-time editor Dafydd begins another chapter in his extended Talisman series, which has been slowly advancing from Dargon's ancient history to the present. While the Talisman epic still has a ways to go, the events of "Talisman Five" will start bringing the story together to its eventual climax.