Hey fellas (and lady fellas),

Bit of an odd situation, but I thought someone around here might be interested. Basically, earlier in the year I was in discussion with the owner of a well known game valuing site that a few of you around here may have heard of. He wanted some original writing for his site, and I drafted a couple of sample articles to see how he'd like them. He did like them, very much, but due to unforeseen circumstances, the opportunity to publish on his site has now closed.

I have two articles basically ready to go: Top ten loose NES values and Top ten loose SNES values. Now, you may be thinking "oh great, click bait top ten article, PASS!", but I assure you these are substantial bodies of work, over 4,000 words apiece, written in a semi-formal style and well researched.

Obviously, the focus of the articles are stories of the history of each game as a collectable, as well as value fluctuation over time. Of course, sometimes this story needs more of a description of the game itself or it's development and release, other times it is more of a look at the history of the game within the collecting community.



So, what am I asking here? Well, I have two articles I poured tens of hours of time into, pages and pages of thorough research, about a subject matter that is quite volatile and could quickly make the content of each article redundant if values change too much. I want a home for these two articles, at least, so that I can share my work with people who are interested! It would be a shame if like me and two other people ever read them!

Anyone who wants to host these on their site, can think of a site that might be interested in hosting them, or even if someone might be interested in not only these two but perhaps continuing the series of articles with me, please let me know!

And, yeah, not just gonna post them on NA because I can already see the TL R replies in my head, lol!

I would send them to whomever runs the Nintendo Age e-zine on here who i think is Ferris Bueller amd then the editors of amy other gaming sites. Yoi never know. I know the e-zine is always looking for contributions. It would be a better option tham jusy posting it to a thread here. Just a thought though. I have no real "in's" anywhere.

The e-zine is deader than disco.

Someone was looking for content for the front page of NA....anyone remember who? Gloves maybe?

edit: try PMing Gloves if it wasn’t him he should be able to point you to whoever was

This would be more "past it on the forum and u link to it from the front page". But yes this is exactly the stuff I was looking for.

How dare you! Disco is coming back. Back I say! It will never die!

 

No lie the new American Eagle ads in the mall all feature disco lol

Ha yeah guess i havent been paying attention too well.

Get these articles up. I want to read them!

I want you to read em too, trust me! But really don't feel like NA is the appropriate venue, unfortunately.

As I mentioned on Discord - maybe try Medium.com. You can always put them up on there, then share them here.
 

What is the issue here? Easy to post the articles? Are you trying to get paid - is that what it boils down to?

Not necessarily. The original agreement I had was that I would be paid for the publication of these articles, and that was at least part of the motivation for me writing them. However, as I say, that deal fell through.

I am open to publishing these articles for free, now that they have already been written, and really I just want people to see them. However, as I also said, not sure just dumping them on a post here on NA and getting like 20 page reads is really doing them justice.

If you have any ideas yourself, I'd love to look into them too!  

Disco will come back before the e-zine.