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Ok I'm sorry but I have to agree with all of their concerns except mine are from a different stand point.
I run my own website and I would NEVER tell any of my writers that they can't write for another site. ESPECIALLY since I can't afford to pay...
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- About Me:
- I am the Editor In Chief of TheStartScreen.com and I have been playing video games for 16 years. I am a gamer but I am really a geek at heart, I have only been writing about video games for over a year now but it has definitely become something I truly enjoy. I am still some what of a noob and continue to strive to improve on my work. I launched my own site on Dec 21, 2008 and I hope to take it far. Check it out and let me know what you think :)
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- http://www.thestartscreen.com
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- At 12:24pm on January 4, 2009,
Jeff "Switch" Sorensen said… - I mean that as a compliment, especially since you're the Chief. I appreciate that nobody on your staff is writing 1500-word expose's on ... well ... anything.
Anything over 550 words got cut to hell by my old editor in college, and I think It shows control over your content when you can say what you need to without turning it into a chore for your reader ... even my gaming column got kept to 475-485 just because that's what fit neatly in a single "column" of our tabloid-sized paper (11x17in.)
It's something that really bugs me on a lot of sites (and in game journalism in general). From what I could tell, your people don't seem to have that habit.
- At 10:03am on January 4, 2009,
Jeff "Switch" Sorensen said…
- I dig your site ... especially because everyone seems to more or less respect the concept of the "word count."
Hope it goes well for you.
- At 7:44pm on September 30, 2008,
Celeste O'Neill said… - Hi Amanda
I am also a female gamer, and i am trying to break into professional videogames journalism. Looking at your profile, i can see you are new to the job yourself. Can you tell me whether you feel you have met resistance within this industry due to your gender, or do you think this has actually helped?
- At 4:49am on June 15, 2008,
pennyman said…
- what like we're not friends on here also!
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