Have I mentioned how much I appreciate the feedback I get here?
Have I buttered you up enough to maybe get a little more?
Okay, here's the sitch. A few days ago (which, given how frantically behind on everything I am just this minute, probably means more like a couple of weeks -- sorry about that), I got a lovely letter telling me how much the writer enjoyed the wish list. She wanted to know if it would be all right to make a poster -- just one, for her own personal use -- of the list.
I'm going to say yes. First, though, I'm going to kick myself very very hard several times for not having thought of making such a poster myself.
I've talked to the printer who does the mag, and it looks like we could get these pretty cheaply. So my graphics guy and I were playing with what exactly said poster might look like.
A poster of the whole list as it originally appeared in the magazine is perfectly possible. I worked at a political bookstore for years, and we sold that kind of all-text thing all the time.
It's a busy look, though. My layout guy thinks it might look nicer if there weren't so many words.
Well, I wrote the list. I can edit the list -- tighten it up by keeping the main points, but making them shorter and punchier.
I don't know if that's what people who like the list enough to hang it on their wall would want, though.
What do you think?
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A poster sounds good, and I would defer to your judgment on the editing question -- as long as, if you edit, you don't take the edge off.
(I suppose it'd be going in the wrong direction to ask you to add "library" and "playground" to #3. :) )
I am the one who requested the poster, and in my humble opinion, your wishlist is SO PERFECT in its original form that I wouldn't remove a single comma. In fact, if you reproduce it exactly, even though you've so kindly given me the permission to make one for my own personal use, I would buy one from you to support you instead. Please don't change a thing - just print it large enough for me to proudly display on our home classroom wall!
Fondly,
-k
How 'bout two different versions? A shorter, punchier version for the shorter, punchier homeschooler [raises hand] and the original.
:D
I love the original, but I'd want a shorter version for full scale display. Maybe it could read like a series of really funny thematic bumper stickers.
hmmm....bumper stickers...
I think a shorter list would make a better poster, though I can definitely see where some folks want to see the whole thing preserved!
My favourites are: #1-3, #6, #10-12, #18, #20, #24.
Thank you so much for your wit, and all your hard work! And congratulations on your success :)
Ruby in Montreal
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