Medium Blog - Contribut(ors|ions)

Question

I'm in the process of moving our current blog over to a new platform (Medium), as part of our birthday celebrations.

Now let's face it. Our old blog didn't really get off the ground. Part of the reason for that was because of the entry barrier to the platform (Wordpress), requiring Yet Another Login Credential. Part of the reason was that we didn't have enough people committed to writing things.

So, with a fresh platform let's have a fresh start. I'm now looking for two sets of people:

1. Contributors
   We need people who are willing to write for us. It doesn't have to be much - maybe an article a month if we have enough people - but this is the essential bit of a successful blog.
2. Editors
   OK, more like curators. These people - called "editors" by Medium - are people who are willing to help me out with administration. I can't keep a whole blog running by myself! I don't entirely know what this role entails, but it won't be a massive commitment.

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Answer 1

I'm interested in...

Writing/contributing, either on a one-time basis or more frequently:

• ✓ Monica Cellio (heavier on writing/presentation/etc and probably some fiction; probably some "what I learned from the WB community" stuff; light on science)
• ✓ HDE 226868 (mostly harder science articles, but also focused on applying these principles to a world, not simply working on calculations; an astronomy/physics focus, if needed)
• ✓ James ...I wanted to support last time and didn't get around to it, hopefully Ill get more motivated this time around. I like the process discussions and tips and tricks for making a logically consistent world.
• ✓ Samuel (How to make science and engineering plausible (anti-scoff tips), the mysteries (and non-mysteries) of electricity, how to do research like a grad student, etc.)
• ✓ Vulcronos - Fantasy and building consistant worlds with magic.
• ✓ knave - Conlangs for those like myself with no linguistic background. This would probably be a multi-part series, covering grammar, coming up with vocabulary, and how to make it less like English, and using my own conlang as an example. Also willing to share my world if that's something we'll be using it for.
• ✓ Serban Tanasa. Here are a few ideas, feel free to grab some of them if they haven't been covered yet... Might post ongoing short stories if I get around to polishing a bit.
• ✓ JDługosz (John Długosz). I have an interest in having Hard SF and not-stupid-SyFy-move SF "track" increased knowledge of science and of the readers. In fact, expanding on that with explaination and examples would be a perfect first post. I'm an experienced (non-fiction) writer and technical editor/contributing editor from the bygone days of dead-tree curated article collections.
• ✓ Mikey (Mikey Lynch) - I am interested in City Building, as I was quite literally building entire cities in Abu Dhabi, and have studied the history (even pre-medieval), economics, law, etc. of settlement and urban planning in my masters. Would I be restricted to that 'tag,' though?
• ✓ PyRulez - Hard SciFi mostly, maybe some magic, probably only occasionally.
• ✓ Tim B - Will write something occasionally, probably not regularly though.
• ✓ Thales Pereira - People-oriented city building, fantasy realms and large-scale world building. Focus on smart use of magic interwined with technology. I'm also inclined to write articles in the sense of "How Stuff Work", trying to explain the physiology and habits of fantastic creatures in a "encyclopedic" way. I'll post once in a while.

Editing/curating:

• ✓ Monica Cellio
• ✓ HDE 226868
• ✓ James
• ✓ bilbo_pingouin
• Serban Tanasa
• Samuel
• JDługosz (John Długosz)
• We've got enough editors for now. Feel free to add yourself here, but we may not need any new blood for a while.

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