Book 2 Important Request, Please read

rover

rover

Moderator
Staff member
Local time
12:03 PM
Joined
Jul 30, 2003
Messages
13,897
OK, the mail box is filling up.

One issue.......

We had asked somewhere, that the text (Bio and photo descriptions) be kept to 150 words. Due to the number of participants we need to conserve space. We want the focus of the book to be the images of course.

Some of the text we have received is well over this limit. I must ask a favor of everyone.

If you feel you have submitted text over the 150 word limit, please edit your submission yourself, and resend it. I have to ask that you take the initiative on this as there is so much stuff now that has to be touched we cannot go threw every one and count words. At some point in the future when push comes to shove, we will notify participants individually, but right now I ask that you please use your good judgement, this will help us out quite a bit.

Also, if you are close to 150, that is ok. There are some that are quite lengthy though, those are the ones that need to be edited.

One other mention, we have been asked by some members for whom English is not their native language to edit their submissions to correct grammar and the like. We will be doing this and truly appreciate the diverse participation in this project and at RFF. We will not be editing every submission, only those we feel need some adjustments. If you have an objection to this regarding your submission, please send an email to the rff email box and we will comply with your wishes.

It looks like things are going forward quite well.
 
rover said:
We had asked somewhere, that the text (Bio and photo descriptions) be kept to 150 words.
Click to expand...
Is this 150 words for each piece of text, or 150 words in total? (I'm sure you specified it somewhere, but I must have missed it...)
Cheers
Vincent
 
Revised bio sent. I also changed my mind on my photo submissions at the last minute... sorry about that.
 
vincentbenoit said:
Is this 150 words for each piece of text, or 150 words in total? (I'm sure you specified it somewhere, but I must have missed it...)
Cheers
Vincent
Click to expand...

150 words total.
 
rover said:
OK, the mail box is filling up.

One issue.......

We had asked somewhere, that the text (Bio and photo descriptions) be kept to 150 words. Due to the number of participants we need to conserve space. We want the focus of the book to be the images of course.

Some of the text we have received is well over this limit. I must ask a favor of everyone.

If you feel you have submitted text over the 150 word limit, please edit your submission yourself, and resend it. I have to ask that you take the initiative on this as there is so much stuff now that has to be touched we cannot go threw every one and count words. At some point in the future when push comes to shove, we will notify participants individually, but right now I ask that you please use your good judgement, this will help us out quite a bit.

Also, if you are close to 150, that is ok. There are some that are quite lengthy though, those are the ones that need to be edited.

One other mention, we have been asked by some members for whom English is not their native language to edit their submissions to correct grammar and the like. We will be doing this and truly appreciate the diverse participation in this project and at RFF. We will not be editing every submission, only those we feel need some adjustments. If you have an objection to this regarding your submission, please send an email to the rff email box and we will comply with your wishes.

It looks like things are going forward quite well.
Click to expand...


I was close but I cut excess on my # 1 picture so I am now under...ah did the 150 include camera info :confused:
 
Ralph, please clarify: is it 150 words total, or 150 words per picture description and per photog's bio?
 
Frank,

I believe it's 150 words TOTAL (for both photos and photog's description/bio). :)

I cut mine back and resent the "lighter" version into Rover just two seconds ago :D

Cheers
Dave
 
i think the bio is limited to 150 words.

the text for the pics should be relatively brief.

remember there are at least 100 shooters in this book compared to the 25 in the first book.

joe
 
150 total? EEEEK.
If so, I completely misunderstood.
And, if so, I will revert to "merciless" mode and get editing.
 
Thanks for all the work you are doing.
I kept my text very small and hopefully with not too many errors :)

Feel free to edit as needed.
 
Well, I guess I need to trim down my text... Do you know for sure at this stage whether it's going to be one or two pictures per photographer? Obviously this makes a difference as to whether the 150-word limit should apply to two or three pieces of text (bio and caption(s)).
Cheers
Vincent
 
Less than 150 means you don't have to be creative and write too much. We should all like that. My total was less than 90 words for titles, location, film/camera, date and a bio. Easiest writing assignment I've had in a long time.
 
back alley said:
i think mine came in at under 75 words.

i can't be sure as i don't normally try to count that high...;)

joe
Click to expand...

heh... excellent Joe. Re the "don't count that high" comment. I don't either. I went to the word count feature in the word processor..
 
jan normandale said:
heh... excellent Joe. Re the "don't count that high" comment. I don't either. I went to the word count feature in the word processor..
Click to expand...


word count feature?
really?
i never heard of that!

i have word perfect & word...do they have this mystery feature?

joe
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom