Santa Lives in HELL, This Week at The Cheers!

Oh Hi! You still here?

This week at The Cheers you can read the first of a few stories I'll share about life as Santa Claus for special events. OK, the main story in this column is just an expanded version of the post I had here earlier in the week, but there is some good stuff you didn't already know.

I'm not too sure about some of the weird things they're doing at The Cheers.

First, they've got some sort of device within the code that finds keywords from particular articles and links them to other articles within the magazine, past or present. That's kind of a good way to encourage a few more folks to read but it makes the articles look crappy.

Next, they're now having automatic page breaks inserted into stories. So my columns which have traditionally been 1000-2000 words (usually about 1500) are being broken up every 500-600 words and turning them into 3 page pieces.

Now who in the internet(s) is going to see that and read all three pages? Most people will freak out even though they may already be very used to reading my work. I really hate this because now I feel I have to write 500 word pieces just to keep people's attention regardless of how much story is actually told. Have you READ some of the crap there that is a single page? Very piss poor work!

Oh well, in theory the people that are interested in what is being written will stick around right? I need a real paying writing gig! Of course if enough people e-mail the editor and tell him to change it, maybe this can be fixed. ;)