Taking back my piece of the pie.

I made the decision to leave the voice to the editors and move on with other projects but perhaps I was a bit hasty in my decision. After a couple of weeks not only did no one reply to my notice at our office but I hardly think anyone even visited the make shift office I created to give us a place to gather our thoughts and prepare our up coming issues.

When I picked the Editors for the paper I had to make a decision between two sets of people. I made the decision based on one persons words he made regarding an article he wanted to include that I felt might be slanderous and cause some bad feelings about the paper. The last thing I wanted the Voice to become was a rag spewing hatred and jealousy around the land so I made my decision and moved on. I regretted the decision because I know that person is a reasonable and intelligent person that would have let it go had I discussed the ramifications of such a work and at the time he did have a right to be angry. But as the decision was already made I moved on and the paper released our first issue without a hitch.

When the second issue was about to go to press was the same time all the Order of Norton drama came to a head and it was mentioned by one of the editors at the time that they thought we should write a story about how they felt that the OoN was a sham. I shut that down quickly because not only did I not agree with the statement but it was hateful and took away from the fact that Jimmy worked so hard to put on the contest. Instead I wrote a story from my heart about the greatness of the contest and what all it did for Valorn.

In reflection I realized what happened was exactly what I deemed I did not want to happen when we started the paper. I informed the staff that we would skip an issue to give me time to ponder my thoughts. I decided I wanted to step away from the paper to work on other projects but over the last two weeks I thought about it and the Voice was my baby…. My brainchild of a paper that is informative and fun for all in Valorn. Seeing a lack of concern, as in no one made a single comment on my resignation or attempted to get anything together for an upcoming issue I took pack the Voice and let go one person that will probably be followed by another if I get no response soon.

The Voice will go on. It may not have a regular monthly release, it may not have as much content as before but it will be exactly what it is intended to be. An informative and accurate news source in Valorn or my name isn’t Dirk Dragonstale! I shall seek out great writers of both factual articles as well as poetry and stories to liven adventurers days.