FHB articles, how many have written one?
Oak River Mike
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I know Hazlett has as I am refering to one right now on valleys. How many others have?
I know it doesn’t pay much but sure would be great to see your name on the pages and nice for a resume for the future.
Mike
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CAP (Cliff Popjoy - sp?) has done a number of them.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
10 year roof, Great Moments, Nov 1990 issue, was only thing I've ever submitted.
Jim Bloddget has done articles on a regular basis.
Edited 6/5/2008 10:16 am ET by junkhound
I had a Q&A published last year. It was a lot of work even just for that. But as you said, it was nice to see my name in print.
I've tried to work on articles 3 different times, but they've all fallen through. They want articles that appeal to a wide range of people, from pros to HOs. That's tough to do with trusses.
I've spent a lot of time submitting outlines and such, only to have it end up being a waste of time.
Based on my experience, I wouldn't recommend trying it unless you REALLY want to have something you've done published.
I've done a bunch of tool review over the years (7?).
- Kit
there was a question about dope here on breaktime that i answered that was then printed in the magazine.
segundo knows dope
that should be my tag line
I've done a drawing board, a Q+A, a feature article, and a tool review. I've found the pay to be fair, similar to design/build wages, and the process to be interesting. There is a lot of working with the editors (for me anyway)--it's not like they publish what you write the first time through.
There is a thrill to seeing your name in lights, and I suppose it would be good for a resume, but mostly it's just a fun change of pace and the editors (I worked with Dan Morrison and Rob Yagid) are great guys to hang out with and talk with about construction (and other things).
I submitted one that didn't get in--don't think they quite knew how to classify it--it was after I'd worked a year as a framing carpenter and mainly talked about safety and was somewhat humorous (one line I thought was funny (but others may not!) was "After you've been working in the rain and the only thing still dry is the lint in your belly button..."). A couple years later they did print a similar aticle by someone else on safety on the job (but not nearly as hilarious as mine!).
We'll all pay you a milkbone if you publish it here. :) I love naval lint humor.TFB (Bill)
I wrote one but FHB rejected it. Along with the rejection letter, I got a nice note stating that they get a few dozen proposals every week and obviously can't use them all.
Oak River Mike,
I was paid for a little piece I submitted a while back..
Dinosaur had one a year or so ago. About making wood storm sashes.
Every once in a while I come up with what I think would be a good idea for an article. But i've never acted on it.
Yeah, I did that one on the storm sashes, then another on design f-ups in bathroom remods (which got killed after a year of revisions because the editorial board had stretched it so far outta shape it no longer made any sense even to them; but I got paid). I also have done a few Tips, and a GMBH and several WTD's. I'm working on a WTD with Rob Yagid right now. Nails. I'm supposed to be doing a full-length article on Jobsite First Aid but it keeps sliding off to the left or the right. Maybe that long post I did to Sphere tonight will kick me in the butt to get it started....
Didja see McDesign's Tip in the current issue? How to make Cut-out Paper Dolls....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
I've seen a lot of tips, that I 've been doing for so long that I think everyone knows them. It must be every other issue or so that I'm thinking " If only I'd sent that one in."
Plus, at my glacial typing speed, I'd have to get a second job to be able to afford to do much typing.
"the editorial board had stretched it so far outta shape it no longer made any sense even to them"So how do you like the publishing business?;)You write an article on how not to design a bathroom, and they turn it into "How not to write an article! LOL
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!
Surprisingly, the article I wrote in '90, the editors did not change a single word.
An eye diun spel tu gud ether, but DW proof read it. .
So how do you like the publishing business?
What's not to like? They paid me for it anyway. ;o)
What happened with that article isn't that uncommon in the magazine biz. My editor commissioned the article based on my original idea, which was 'how to avoid blowing your bathroom remod budget on stoopid design'. A year or more later, the editorial committee (consisting, I presume, of my editor, the managing editor, the executive editor and The Editor) looked the first draft over with an eye to what they needed to round out the upcoming issue (for which it was tentatively scheduled, possibly even as the cover article I was told).
Each one of them wanted to add a bit of his own vision to this article, with the result that collectively they wound up asking for an article on how to design bathrooms, even though that was not any individual's intent. But the real problem is, 'How to Design a Bathroom' is not a magazine article, it's a book.
Nevertheless, I re-wrote the article completely, trying hard to keep it within the pages allotted to it and to maintain the original bad-design-as-the-root-of-all-evils vision while still including all the other info everybody else was looking for. But when they saw the finished copy, they realised it was no longer either fish or fowl, and it got killed.
Happens all the time. That's why there's a kill-fee clause in all publishing contracts.
If anybody wants an article on how to design bathrooms in 5000 words or less, I've got one ready on the spike. Copyright reverted to me on payment of the kill fee. (That's standard, too.)
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Mike,
I wrote an article for the current issue (July '08 #196), Reproducing Historic Architectural Details (Master Carpenter column p.110).
I've also had a "Trade Secret" published on the back of the dust jacket.
Have a couple of things in the works now...you never know what will make it in...it is cool to do work, and do writing and photography to go with it. BT can be good practice for an article.
My current article started here as a thread.
Cheers,
BC
basswood,
Thats awesome as I just went and read it and the wife and I have been to Winona! Which is quite a ways from where we live in Florida!
I think there is a restaurant called Finn & Sawyer on the river in that area? Been ten years since we were there so hard to remember.
Very nice article by the way.
Mike
I made it in the Breaktime section several years ago.
Does that count?
wrote two and did outline submittals for two more.
None of them published.
They like my free stuff here tho. Used several quotes from BT for those pages
Welcome to the
Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime.
where ...
Excellence is its own reward!
I wrote one on my experience suing (and winning) a client for non-payment.
Unfortunately, my attorney advised against going ahead with it.
Forrest - tips only