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Birol · Apr 7, 2006

Is it true that I should not use colored papers when printing my manuscript? Does that mean I should use black paper instead of white since black is the absence of all color and white is the combination of all colors. If I do use black paper, what color ink should I use when I print my manuscript?

Aconite · Apr 7, 2006

You kids today. In my day, we had dirty-bone vellum with holes in it and nothing else, and we were glad for that!

Birol · Apr 7, 2006

Are you suggesting we shouldn't make use of improvements in technology and that the publishing industry shouldn't move with the time?

MacAllister · Apr 7, 2006

Look, if its worked fine for the last two hundred years, why on earth should we change everything around for the young turks who wanna submit on black construction paper with glitter-ink?

Birol · Apr 7, 2006

I wasn't asking if we should change things. I was asking what is proper. Sheesh. Can't you two stay on topic?

Deleted member 42 · Apr 7, 2006

Birol said:
Are you suggesting we shouldn't make use of improvements in technology and that the publishing industry shouldn't move with the time?

Paper? Paper is for wimps, and what's the point of vellum? Couple of centuries, a little damp, and your ms. is over.

Real writers use clay tablets. Think about it. They're portable, recycleable, and durable; easily lasting thousands of years with almost no care. Just bury them in a nice dry hole in the ground.

Dawno · Apr 7, 2006

Vellum puts nasty lines in the text when I submit in Periwinkle Crayola. I prefer a nice 100% cotton rag 25lb. in bright white.

Aconite · Apr 7, 2006

Medievalist said:
They're portable, recycleable, and durable; easily lasting thousands of years with almost no care.

Sure, unless you drop them. Shards all over the frickin' place. Give me a good, rollable sheet of vellum any day.

Birol · Apr 7, 2006

Medievalist said:
Paper? Paper is for wimps, and what's the point of vellum? Couple of centuries, a little damp, and your ms. is over.

Real writers use clay tablets. Think about it. They're portable, recycleable, and durable; easily lasting thousands of years with almost no care. Just bury them in a nice dry hole in the ground.

Except for when you drop them.

MacAllister · Apr 7, 2006

Not to mention all the postage. Geez.

Perks · Apr 7, 2006

Easy now.

Birol · Apr 7, 2006

Since you're here, Perks. What do you think? Black or white? Rag content, vellum, or tablets? You're the FAQ mod, doesn't that mean you have all the answers?

Perks · Apr 7, 2006

Yes I do -

Answers are $1.50

Answers which require thought - $4.10

The right answer - market rate

Dumb looks are still free.

Dawno · Apr 7, 2006

Do you take Platinum Amex?

Aconite · Apr 7, 2006

Paypal?

Perks · Apr 7, 2006

Paypal and money orders by carrier pidgeon.

Birol · Apr 7, 2006

Wait a minute. Jenna's letting you make money off this gig?

*Lori pulls out her Rules of Indentured Servitude and starts reading the fine print.*

Aconite · Apr 7, 2006

Hey, hey, she's my little valentine. I get a cut until she buys her own replacement.

Dawno · Apr 7, 2006

Uh, you'd go Paypal over *Platinum Amex* ??? Why do I pay the dang annual fee for that thing if nobody will accept it...

Birol · Apr 7, 2006

You're helping support the economy?

Dawno · Apr 7, 2006

Oh, ok - Thanks!

Yeshanu · Apr 8, 2006

Medievalist said:
Paper? Paper is for wimps, and what's the point of vellum? Couple of centuries, a little damp, and your ms. is over.

Real writers use clay tablets. Think about it. They're portable, recycleable, and durable; easily lasting thousands of years with almost no care. Just bury them in a nice dry hole in the ground.

Clay tablets? Are you nuts? They break far too easily.

Every writer worth her salt knows that there's only one proper medium for her deathless prose--stone tablets. If it ain't written in stone, it ain't worth reading!

Deleted member 42 · Apr 8, 2006

Yeshanu said:
Clay tablets? Are you nuts? They break far too easily.

Every writer worth her salt knows that there's only one proper medium for her deathless prose--stone tablets. If it ain't written in stone, it ain't worth reading!

Actually, they don't. I've dropped cuneiform tablets a number of times, and never even had a chip.

Really.

Yeshanu · Apr 8, 2006

Medievalist said:
Actually, they don't. I've dropped cuneiform tablets a number of times, and never even had a chip.

Really.

Just give 'em a couple thousand year. You'll see.

MacAllister · Apr 8, 2006

Ruth...Lisa being Lisa...she might well have been handling the couple-thousand-year old ones.

::geekly admiration::

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