MEW, would less be more?

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Jouni

 

I’d be happy to proof read an article up to about 6 pages for you, especially if you write it using word. I’m sure it wouldn’t be to great a task.

 

It woudl be a shame for others to miss out on your ideas,

 

Neil

[JouniPParticipant @jounip]

Dennis and Neil

 

Thank You for encouragement. I will make a try.

 

 

Jouni

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Let me know if/when you would like someone to look an article over.

 

Neil

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

I don’t think I have rejected any article.

I have had a couple that were too long but nothing has been rejected outright.

Most articles are used eventually.

I don’t know of any magazine nowadays that acknowledges contributions received.

Editors just don’t get time, they are too busy editing.

Also, I get hundreds of emails a day. Not all model engineering related but they all take time to look through.

This is why occasionally articles get lost, either CDs in storage or on my hard drive, lack of time.

All articles are edited. Some take an hour, others take two or three days which is why they get put on the back burner.

I don’t change the writing style. If I did all articles would read the same.

regards David

[JouniPParticipant @jounip]

Neil, Your offer is kind, and I will try to write an article. Some other MEW forum readers made a similar offer by personal message and I can’t use all of them. At least, not with first article. But, if this first, not yet written article is a great success, I’ll make an another one, and I will ask someone else to check it.

Yours
Jouni

[Harold Hall 1Participant @haroldhall1]

I have looked David at your comments regarding confirming receipt of an article and can fully appreciate the amount of correspondence you get, with the two magazines and your AimForProfit internet marketing business, putting you under pressure.

However, I do feel that confirming receipt of an article should be a priority. In my case, whilst not receiving confirmation from you in the latter years, you did publish mine quit quickly in most cases so I was soon reassured that it had been received.

Presently, I have an article with “The Woodworker” which has been with them for fourteen months(they are very well supplied with articles). Initially, they agreed that an article would be worthwhile, and then, with the confirmation that followed after I sent it, I am fully aware that it has been received. If this was not so, then I would be by now asking myself have they received it.

Surely, receipt of articles is a very small proportion of the whole and a simple reply such as I had for the above “Hallo Harold The disc has just arrived; many thanks” Would not be too time consuming. This was easily appended to the email that I sent saying the disc was in the post, as I did with the articles I sent you. If those sending articles to you do not do this then perhaps it could be put in your guidelines as being worthwhile if internet access is available.

As you are short of articles then perhaps not receiving a confirmation may be putting off some from coming up with more, thinking that the first was not suitable.

Good to see you back in the editors chair after your illness, do hope it is now a thing of the past.

Harold

[Robert DoddsParticipant @robertdodds43397]

Slightly skewed to the current direction of the thread but does anyone else get a different mag to that declared on the envelope.

Today I got MEW 185 in a package that had MEW 186 printed on the wrapper. And its been like that for months.

It’s all very confusing to an old un especially when I’ve already read most of MEW185 on the digital channel

Bob D

[mattParticipant @matt27093]

Posted by Robert Dodds on 12/12/2011 23:40:14:

Slightly skewed to the current direction of the thread but does anyone else get a different mag to that declared on the envelope.

Today I got MEW 185 in a package that had MEW 186 printed on the wrapper. And its been like that for months.

It’s all very confusing to an old un especially when I’ve already read most of MEW185 on the digital channel

Bob D

Edited By matt on 13/12/2011 09:04:05

Edited By matt on 13/12/2011 09:05:00

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

MEW is always one issue out.

It is because someone in management included a plans handbook in the sequence.

This means we will always be one issue out.

regards david

 

 

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