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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeff37923" data-source="post: 3403939" data-attributes="member: 26008">JTAS and Patron Encounters for paid gaming stuff. Triond for my forays into very low pay - crap publications.Unpaid work includes about two years of a regular op-ed column in the Norris Bulletin (local paper), some guest editorials in the Knoxville News-Sentinel, some poetry and short stories in a local goth fanzine called Nocturnal Emmissions, and a regular column in the Traveller fanzine Stellar Reaches. I've got a couple more articles that are waiting to be printed, but haven't yet, so I'm not counting them.I've got to say, writing for Stellar Reaches, although unpaid, has been one of the most rewarding experiences so far. My most recent article submitted is radically different from its original form. Flynn is a good editor and suggested a different approach to the article that I hadn't considered, which led to a substantially different tone for the article, and thus made a much better article once written. I had not known just how a good editor, who is involved in the content of his publication, can grant you such an enjoyable experience when you write. Most editors I've found are like on/off switches - they either love what you wrote and will print it or they hate what you wrote and won't print it, they hardly ever get involved with the writer to help create something worthy of being printed. Flynn is a breath of fresh air that way.I'm not a journalist, but the one I do know who is a staff reporter for the Knoxville News-Sentinel has a love-hate relationship with his profession. To be a staff reporter, he had to sign an exclusionary contact that prevents him from getting any work published under his own name. I keep telling him that he should just use a pseudonym, but he's afraid of losing his job should his boss find out and I can understand that.</blockquote>

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