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National Fantasy Fan, v. 5, issue 1, January 1946
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-3- WHERE EVER you might be in the country you can call up somebody and say, "Hello Bill, this is Joe." You've never met Bill. Maybe you have been writing to him, or maybe he's just seen your name in a fan magazine. And that's the same as already being friends. Now this is something where I know what I am talking about. I've been all over the United States in the past five years, and there were always people wherever I went with whom I was already friends, although many I had never seen before. BEGINNING in 1946 we will have conventions once more. Fans will come from all over the nation to meet one another and to renew old friendships. It is a lot of fun to meet people that you have never seen before, but with whom you are already intimate in correspondence. 5. UP TO now I haven't said much about fan magazines, but you can't be much of a science fiction fan without getting at least a few of them. Some fans try to get them all. That's pretty hard. A good collection of fan magazines is another pleasure. FAN magazines (called fanzines, or fanmags, or just fmz) are amateur publications published without profit by a fan as the creative part of his science fiction hobby. You see, when a person does enough reading, it's only a matter of time before he reaches the point where he has to write something. Not everyone can be a professional writer, but everyone can be an amateur, and so the amateur magazine was born. USUALLY you start by witing something for someone else's fanmag before you publish your own. It may be a letter, a fact article, a story, a controversial article, poetry -- anything goes. You find out what each magazine wants by reading them. There are innumerable fanmags. Some you get by subscription, some you get by being on the preferred mailing lists which are a result of general fan activity, some are free for the asking providing you write a letter of comment after reading it, and others come by belonging to an amateur press assn. such as the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. (See Appendix 2.) WHAT I wish to emphasize here is that fanzine publishers are always delighted to print good selections by new fans. They will crawl to you on hands and knees if you have something worth publishing. Do not be deceived into believing that breaking into amateur print is a high and mighty and difficult thing. It is not, as long as you have something worth saying -- and there is always somebody who is looking for an item for his next issue. In addition, the NFFF maintains a manuscript bureau which helps in getting good writing to the fan publishers who need such. There is little that gives more pleasure than seeing something of your own in a fanmag, and there is no better way to beome better known, for with correspondence you may become acquainted with only a few people. By being published in the fanzine you will become known to all of fandom. 6. YOU are already in the largest club of all: the NFFF. The many activities open in this club can be found in the various issues of the official organ. There you will find announcements asking for volunteers for some job, to serve on a committee, to help on some project. If you have the time and the means, respond to any of those calls.
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-3- WHERE EVER you might be in the country you can call up somebody and say, "Hello Bill, this is Joe." You've never met Bill. Maybe you have been writing to him, or maybe he's just seen your name in a fan magazine. And that's the same as already being friends. Now this is something where I know what I am talking about. I've been all over the United States in the past five years, and there were always people wherever I went with whom I was already friends, although many I had never seen before. BEGINNING in 1946 we will have conventions once more. Fans will come from all over the nation to meet one another and to renew old friendships. It is a lot of fun to meet people that you have never seen before, but with whom you are already intimate in correspondence. 5. UP TO now I haven't said much about fan magazines, but you can't be much of a science fiction fan without getting at least a few of them. Some fans try to get them all. That's pretty hard. A good collection of fan magazines is another pleasure. FAN magazines (called fanzines, or fanmags, or just fmz) are amateur publications published without profit by a fan as the creative part of his science fiction hobby. You see, when a person does enough reading, it's only a matter of time before he reaches the point where he has to write something. Not everyone can be a professional writer, but everyone can be an amateur, and so the amateur magazine was born. USUALLY you start by witing something for someone else's fanmag before you publish your own. It may be a letter, a fact article, a story, a controversial article, poetry -- anything goes. You find out what each magazine wants by reading them. There are innumerable fanmags. Some you get by subscription, some you get by being on the preferred mailing lists which are a result of general fan activity, some are free for the asking providing you write a letter of comment after reading it, and others come by belonging to an amateur press assn. such as the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. (See Appendix 2.) WHAT I wish to emphasize here is that fanzine publishers are always delighted to print good selections by new fans. They will crawl to you on hands and knees if you have something worth publishing. Do not be deceived into believing that breaking into amateur print is a high and mighty and difficult thing. It is not, as long as you have something worth saying -- and there is always somebody who is looking for an item for his next issue. In addition, the NFFF maintains a manuscript bureau which helps in getting good writing to the fan publishers who need such. There is little that gives more pleasure than seeing something of your own in a fanmag, and there is no better way to beome better known, for with correspondence you may become acquainted with only a few people. By being published in the fanzine you will become known to all of fandom. 6. YOU are already in the largest club of all: the NFFF. The many activities open in this club can be found in the various issues of the official organ. There you will find announcements asking for volunteers for some job, to serve on a committee, to help on some project. If you have the time and the means, respond to any of those calls.
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