Issue, issue, issue
Here, the word ‘issue’ takes on a double meaning – one, the descriptive one since it is obvious that we really have a one-page output; and two, the probable question that we are now getting complacent with the making our ‘petty project’. Perhaps the first one would only hold. We, well yes I, have our (my) own reasons for opting to a one-page release.
In reality, we are only two in the core of this thing, Essej and I, having proceeded with the project without the (semi) prof guidance of a friend. The reasons, I have said already in an earlier issue.
Then vacation came that greatly complicated the matter. My partner, having no extensive communications means (a bad thing for two people having a common work to do, you see), could not comply now with our agreement to release a written-issue for this month. Having no update at all, I decided to resort initially to a one-page written issue, then looking with all those pile of books I have mercilessly imposed upon myself, I decided resolutely to have a one-page Adobe-facilitated last issue.
A Look Back
There is not so much to look back really. We have only released three issues that barely had readership at all (even an intimate never bothered to touch the copy I lent). But it’s good to realize for now (at least) that readership is not a big-time issue yet. One thing that’s important here is that we get to pool our thoughts and creative ideas (if there are, really), and have it as a collective output, meant to be shared to the people.
Although in many instances I have felt the sways of my thoughts for the project, I know that our desire to focus this thing on
What’s Next?
I personally wonder too what’s in store for this little zine project of ours. Sold it to somebody else and get away with the burden of a release every month? Nah, not that gross I think. In fact, plans are undergoing to fully revise LZ in a manner that it shall be treated more seriously by the chance readers. Although we were not able to fully have a dictionary-type meaning of the slogan we gave for it, we nevertheless want to adhere to what ‘socio-lit’ mean to us. We are not literature masters, but certainly each person is in complete freedom to express his/herself under the many forms of lit.
Expect LZ to be relatively readable: easily by the common people and other who understand such endeavors, and tolerably by those who are more after the ‘form’ than the contents. And a possible ISSN, don’t you think? (Smugs)
Cheers!
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