Jim Wards latest 900 Word is up. Its not a rant.

[JacktheRabbit]

Re: ???

I am not a fan of Jim Ward. But the 900 word essay was okay and interesting. But what did he do that he critized Psion for??

Or am I just slow today

Jim Ward wrote his 900 Word in Word and when he moved it onto the web some of the punctuation didnt come through right and instead came up at code text.

 

[Drawmack]

All that he has to do is delete the # leving it be &number; and that will pull the punctuation into html. That is why even though I hate front page when a client hands me something in word I paste it into front page then copy it out of front page and into my real html editor.

Anyway onto the 900 words, there's some interesting and positive things this week.

This year Fast Forward is having amazing success with Bob Salvatore's DemonWars concept. So much so that we have decided to bring in some other huge names for 2004. Tracy Hickman, of Dragonlance fame among many other successes, is going to help us create a huge fantasy world later in the 2004 season. Ed Greenwood, of Forgotten Realms fame among other wonderful things he has done, will also be joining the Fast Forward line of products with an amazing new fantasy world. We are very excited about having these people help us create new and unique role-playing product.

I sincerly and truly hope that these star players hit homeruns with some of their product for Fast Forward. I can't imagine the hickman's doing anything substandard.

Column E: This is the final proofing stage—lately in order to make sure that we are not in trademark violation, we have inserted a final proofing step after typesetting. It has helped us catch several minor things, and this all helps to increase the quality of our products.

Though I'm sure that this was, at least in part, prompted by the recent pulping due to license violations. It also seems that they have been listening. We complained, loudly, about the editing of their works and they added another editing phase. I appluade the effort and hope that it pays off.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

I sincerly and truly hope that these star players hit homeruns with some of their product for Fast Forward. I can't imagine the hickman's doing anything substandard.



Though I'm sure that this was, at least in part, prompted by the recent pulping due to license violations. It also seems that they have been listening. We complained, loudly, about the editing of their works and they added another editing phase. I appluade the effort and hope that it pays off. [/B]

I hope your right. They aquired rights to do a game based on Crossgen comics,so i'm hoping there is a change for the better. It would be a shame if a product with a lot of potential like this tanked. In the past i haven't seen anything from them that i'd call really intersting, but as was mentioned they have a bad rep here, which makes me nervous about buying thier products.

I really hope the increased editiing and addition of big name talent leads to a turn around for them. I'd rather see them, and everyone else for that matter, produce more top notch stuff because in the long run the more compainies producing good stuff the better it is for us as players.

 

[rpgwriter]

Editing

I'm married to an extremely experienced freelance editor (she has worked with authors published by Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson, Pinnacle, Kensington, etc) who has recently started doing some work for Fast Forward. She has been offered more work in the future, so I think they are responding to the complaints.

Just my two cents....

-J

 

[MulhorandSage]

Yeah at times there has been quite a bit of it. The main problem though is lots of it has been earned by Mr Ward.

He talks the talk but he certainly does not walk the walk.

You can criticize Jim's opinions and his perceived thin skin, but he's spent close to thirty years in this business. That qualifies as having "walked the walk" to me.

Scott Bennie

 

[JacktheRabbit]

You can criticize Jim's opinions and his perceived thin skin, but he's spent close to thirty years in this business. That qualifies as having "walked the walk" to me.

Scott Bennie

That was his excuse too.

Didnt fly when he said it and it doesnt fly when you say it.

 

[Mark]

Re: Editing

I'm married to an extremely experienced freelance editor...

Does she have an extremely experienced freelance editor sister...?

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Re: Re: Editing

Does she have an extremely experienced freelance editor sister...?

I thought I told you to go to the Hivemind?

 

[Mark]

Re: Re: Re: Editing

I thought I told you to go to the Hivemind?

If you keep forgetting to use the "Rolley-Eyes" Smiley, you're going to lose your near-exclusive rights to it...

 

[dsfriii]

A 2nd sister

Does she have an extremely experienced freelance editor sister...?

Does she have a second sister she does not have to be extremely experienced???



Sorry I had to say it.....