On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, D. Starner wrote:
Andrew Sly writes:
Something very similar to this has been attempted before, with rather dismal results. Hardly anyone seemed interested in writing a little synopsis (or "blurb")
What do you mean "has been attempted before"? If you mean the newsletter, you've got less than a week to write it up, and last time I submitted something to the newsletter, it got dropped into the void. If you're interested in synopsises, then express that interest and where we can direct the result to, and I'm sure people will respond.
I mean that this has been tried before. (admittedly, it was a while ago, late in 2000) And, after the initial contributions, the interest died out. If enough people would like to contribute a brief synopsis for texts in the collection, we already have a place in the catalog they can go. (although I don't know about the mechanics behind it) When I tried to make a few of these myself, I found that writing a good brief syopsis of a novel was harder than I would have thought. Andrew