Anonymous Coward · 2y

Is there a reason there are more than double the amount of artists as there are writers? Do writers get an increased word count as a result of there being so few?

This is a common struggle for mods in a zine. It's a matter of pagecount in the final zine. When printing, we have to take into account the costs (especially since we are an independent project), which are largely determined by how many pages long the zine is. One artist in this zine can take a max of 3 pages. Our wordcount limit is 2.5k per story, so one writer in this zine could create anywhere between 5-8 pages of content, depending on spacing and formatting. And in this zine, we have 6 total writers (1 guest and 5 contributors from applicatons). Since writers often need double the space, in order to have an equal amount of content--and to keep costs down--zines tend to accept double or more the amount of artists. However, writers who are accepted into the zine and have strong NSFW writing skills will be encouraged to create for the hard kink add-on, which will have a higher wordcount limit to allow them more freedom.

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