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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 4068450" data-attributes="member: 508">THE ECOLOGY OF THE GRAY RENDERThis is another of the fiction-and-footnote &quot;Ecology&quot; articles I had sitting on the Dragon editorial desk in 2000 when the new editor decided to scrap that format.&nbsp; I should explain the format for this one, as it's a standalone story and was to be done up a bit differently than most of mine.&nbsp; The story itself is a &quot;journal&quot; by Vrak, the barely-literate companion of a nature-loving cleric.&nbsp; His writing abilities are rather poor; had this been published, Dave Gross was going to have the first and last sections done up as &quot;illustrations&quot; of the actual pages of the journal, with the rampant misspellings and everything.&nbsp; The rest of the journal would have been typed up like a normal article, with the words spelled correctly but the actual word usage the same as how it was originally &quot;written&quot; by Vrak.&nbsp; (Thus, rambling, run-on sentences and such would remain.)&nbsp; When I originally sent &quot;The Ecology of the Gray Render&quot; in, I had the entire article (minus the footnotes) misspelled as if written by Vrak, and Dave said I just about sent his assistant editor up the wall!&nbsp; The &quot;first and last sections misspelled&quot; idea was a compromise that Dave came up with, and I admit it gets the concept across (hopefully) without irritating the reader too much.&nbsp; To preserve this concept, I'm putting the first and last sections in italics and keeping the misspellings intact; these are intended to show the viewer what the &quot;actual&quot; journal entries were like.In any case, I hope you enjoy my take on &quot;The Ecology of the Gray Render.&quot;Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 4068450, member: 508"] [B]THE ECOLOGY OF THE GRAY RENDER[/B] This is another of the fiction-and-footnote "Ecology" articles I had sitting on the [I]Dragon[/I] editorial desk in 2000 when the new editor decided to scrap that format. I should explain the format for this one, as it's a standalone story and was to be done up a bit differently than most of mine. The story itself is a "journal" by Vrak, the barely-literate companion of a nature-loving cleric. His writing abilities are rather poor; had this been published, Dave Gross was going to have the first and last sections done up as "illustrations" of the actual pages of the journal, with the rampant misspellings and everything. The rest of the journal would have been typed up like a normal article, with the words spelled correctly but the actual word usage the same as how it was originally "written" by Vrak. (Thus, rambling, run-on sentences and such would remain.) When I originally sent "The Ecology of the Gray Render" in, I had [I]the entire article[/I] (minus the footnotes) misspelled as if written by Vrak, and Dave said I just about sent his assistant editor up the wall! The "first and last sections misspelled" idea was a compromise that Dave came up with, and I admit it gets the concept across (hopefully) without irritating the reader too much. To preserve this concept, I'm putting the first and last sections in italics and keeping the misspellings intact; these are intended to show the viewer what the "actual" journal entries were like. In any case, I hope you enjoy my take on "The Ecology of the Gray Render." Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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