New Management
12 years ago
Hello all, Sean Rivercritic here.
I've been talking with Duroc/Sean, and have volunteered to keep the site going.
Now.
It is NOT my intention to change anything about the guild itself, what it stands for, who its members are, or anything else potentially relating to that nature.
It is my goal, however, to really use the guild to promote better writing within the fandom. How I plan to do that will be revealed in the coming week as I get everything together.
My first goal will be to get the forum back up. I believe that having a set aside place to discuss things about the guild and about writing in general would be a big help. The forum would be open to both members and non-members.
A little bit about myself, for those who don't know me:
I've been around the furry fandom for around six years, active in it for a little over three. I've been drawn to it ever since, well, I really found out what it was.
This is not my first time attempting to promote furry literature. I was a manager at a Borders Bookstore a couple of years back, and with support from my local area management was able to get a few books into my store. You can see a picture of part of the section here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5654670/. Thanks to
rikoshi for still having this picture up.
During that time (and since then) I've been working part-time as an editor for furry literature. A couple of you may have heard from me before under the name AnthroAquatic. The website for such can be found at www.anthroaquatic,com.
I haven't released any written works of my own yet, but I am working on a story I hope will end up being decent. We will see that one when we get there.
I think that's it!
I'm going to leave things there for now. If anyone has any questions for me, please feel free to comment here, email the FWG email (furwritersguild@gmail.com - though if you email please specify that the question is for me), or send a note, whether it's to the FWG FA account or to my personal one. I'd be more than happy to answer anything.
I hope that you will all take well to me, and that we can work side by side to help improve the genre of furry literature as a whole.
Thanks, everyone. Thanks especially to Duroc for starting all of this and for making the guild what it is today. It takes a lot of determination to be able to run something non-profit like this for so long, and even though he's already had one journal full of thanks, he deserves another. So thanks.
~
Sean Rivercritic
I've been talking with Duroc/Sean, and have volunteered to keep the site going.
Now.
It is NOT my intention to change anything about the guild itself, what it stands for, who its members are, or anything else potentially relating to that nature.
It is my goal, however, to really use the guild to promote better writing within the fandom. How I plan to do that will be revealed in the coming week as I get everything together.
My first goal will be to get the forum back up. I believe that having a set aside place to discuss things about the guild and about writing in general would be a big help. The forum would be open to both members and non-members.
A little bit about myself, for those who don't know me:
I've been around the furry fandom for around six years, active in it for a little over three. I've been drawn to it ever since, well, I really found out what it was.
This is not my first time attempting to promote furry literature. I was a manager at a Borders Bookstore a couple of years back, and with support from my local area management was able to get a few books into my store. You can see a picture of part of the section here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5654670/. Thanks to
rikoshi for still having this picture up.During that time (and since then) I've been working part-time as an editor for furry literature. A couple of you may have heard from me before under the name AnthroAquatic. The website for such can be found at www.anthroaquatic,com.
I haven't released any written works of my own yet, but I am working on a story I hope will end up being decent. We will see that one when we get there.
I think that's it!
I'm going to leave things there for now. If anyone has any questions for me, please feel free to comment here, email the FWG email (furwritersguild@gmail.com - though if you email please specify that the question is for me), or send a note, whether it's to the FWG FA account or to my personal one. I'd be more than happy to answer anything.
I hope that you will all take well to me, and that we can work side by side to help improve the genre of furry literature as a whole.
Thanks, everyone. Thanks especially to Duroc for starting all of this and for making the guild what it is today. It takes a lot of determination to be able to run something non-profit like this for so long, and even though he's already had one journal full of thanks, he deserves another. So thanks.
~
Sean Rivercritic
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Second, one thing I would like to see is a link from the FWG's front page to the forum. I actually have to Google the forum any time I want to go to it, because there's no way to access it from the front page.
There was a link on the main page, but the forum apparently wasn't working anymore. These free forum hosting sites tend to have a boatload of problems. That being said I still plan on using one of them. Hey, free is free!
There will be a link on the main page as soon as I get it up. I'll probably add it to the homepage in the meantime, then add it to the links on the side. I'm working with limited web page coding knowledge, and while Google Sites does make it easier, it's not something I've worked with so far.
But yes, I will definitely make that happen.
V.
I am very appreciative...
V.
Then again, going too mainstream isn't always a good thing...
and then again you have the true classic like Beauty & the Beast...
V.
It's occurred to me that non-questions I should probably just reply to with my personal account. Makes a bit more sense in my mind, at least.
It's less about if Borders was still around and more about if bookstores that aren't Barnes and Noble were around. They're gonna doom themselves by pushing too hard into the Nook.
Wait, they still work? It totally wasn't letting me into the site. Wanna give me a link? You can totally cross-post it as I won't be home for another...10 hours or so. Day jobs and all of that nonsense.
Thanks a bunch!
At any rate, this is the URL I use:
http://www.hostingphpbb.com/forum/durocpig.html
But yeah, if you can post something, that'd be fantastic. If you can't, then I appreciate the trying. I hope to have another forum up in the near future. I just need to, well, learn what I'm doing. Or find someone to do it for me. I'm sure I can call in a few favors.
I'd probably end up hosting the new forum via AnthroAquatic, simply because I know it's a domain that won't be going anywhere.
So yes, new forums are absolutely top priority. XD
Still definitely a new priority. I'm bored at work today so I'm already looking into it.
Welcome aboard and thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping this resource alive and running!
This is great news, thanks so much for stepping forward and helping to keep thing going!
It's probably moot to offer, but if you need help or someone to rant to, feel free to message me lol
I haven't been as active in the FWG as I probably should be, but I'll likely be in touch sporadically. Among other things, I'm the writing track lead of Further Confusion this year (and last) and have been working at sadly glacial speed on getting a new furry magazine up and running called Claw & Quill, which will also have a mission of promoting furry writing, although that won't be an exclusive focus.
Hope to see you around! Everything sounds great; we could always use more material that promotes furry writing.
I've made appropriate changes to the Furry Writers' Guild article at WikiFur - feel free to update it in the future with new members and information.
Also, please let me know if you need technical assistance - I have a certain amount of experience with MediaWiki and Drupal and would be fine hosting a FWG wiki on WikiFur's server if you decide to move off Google Sites, for example. (I just don't have time to run such a wiki on an editorial basis.)
As soon as the domain expires I will probably be moving this off of Google Sites. It's a fairly decent platform but has tended to be buggy at times. Can't argue too much with free, though. I'll most likely be adding the domain onto my own account and just copying the site over there.
As far as requests for technical help...I may cash that in sometime in the near future. My knowledge on such things is fairly limited. Would be much appreciated. Just have to find out where I'd need help.
Feel free to stop on by the forums and see what kind of stuff we have planned for the future. www.anthroaquatic.com/forum