Maura Magazine

The text size and style on the web app is delightfully huge. I can even read it with my glasses off!

Sorry, iOS app, not web

what you mean the ios app that you can find at http://maura.com/app ???

(sorry everybody)

hooray!

can you get this if you don't have an iphone/ipad? i don't know how apple apps work...

nope

bummer

but like can i get it on my macbook?

:(

still nope

:(

yeah it's a bummer but I can understand it - much easier to paywall on a iOS device than on the web

I think people who have subscripts can still share articles though? or something, idk

can't believe i have to own one of the most common pieces of technology in media to read this thing that appeals primarily to people in the media

i'm stapling printouts at kinko's right now, send $3 to Maura Zine, PO Box #454

i'm burning it to DVD-Rs right now, will be mailing free copies to those who want one

so not owning a specific brand of smartphone is somehow "backwards" to you lot? smh

i've chosen not to go for an iphone for several reasons, primarily because i can't fucking stand touchscreens

can't believe i have to own one of the most common pieces of technology in media to read this thing that appeals primarily to people in the media

I'm just sad that I can't read it! Nobody is being incredulous itt as far as I can see, just disappointed.

i've chosen not to go for an iphone for several reasons, primarily because i can't fucking stand touchscreens

― lex pretend, Sunday, January 13, 2013

posts very much in character etc etc

Likewise, would purchase but don't have the correct device to read it on.

maybe an android version will come out soon ... hahahahahaha *falls over and dies*

droid

Get in!!!!

according to maura there's an android version in the works and very tentative possible plans for a print version. I do think its silly there's no web version with a standard paywall.

android is a bugger because of all the versions and screen variants and etc etc. probably quite simple for a print venture of this kind though.

the app itself is very simple—probably too much so. first thing I wanted to do was make the text smaller, but there's no setting anywhere. also I subscribed, but I can't get to issue 2, and there's a 'your subscription has expired' message in the corner. probably just teething problems, I dunno. haven't read anything yet, only just woke up, geez.

subscription appears to be okay now, but the 'expired' message is still there, and it's still nagging me to subscribe. hmm.

btw i wouldn't have known about this magazine without lex's pvmic. cheers lex.

I had to restore the app to get it to register my subscription and let me have the second issue.

same, but the 'expired' message is still there ON IPHONE and ipad. app works though (apart from the nag pop-up).

AA go to back issues then restore and that should be your problems

SOLVE your problems

sorry, we are still working through some bugs

and thanks to everyone who's already subscribed! an android version is far off if it ever comes, but there'll be supplemental content on the web site (and we'll eventually unlock some pieces there as well)

Just caught up on both issues. Loved Michele Catalano's piece in particular.

i am among the iphoneless, but i cheer maura on from under my rock. :-)

the reissue interview in issue 2 was really fascinating stuff.

thanks so much everybody <3

Haven't read the thread yet. Does this magazine feature a column with advice on Dating In These Mixed-Up Times Whilst Maintaining Yr Independence Of Thought?

Sorry

Ha ha.

Maybe you could ask luna to write it.

Anyway, looking forward to upgrading my phone so I can listen to this.

I can't tell if you're making fun of me or not.

No, I'm making fun of the same thing you are complaining about on the other thread. But couldn't figure out how to signal that, don't know if there is an emoticon.

No ipad or iphone here, but if this is ever distributed via print/pdf, I'll subscribe.

/laughingwithyounotatyou

#letmaurapaywall

No ipad or iphone here

whiney's gonna zing ya

thanks everyone <3 (and thanks teardrop! i am just feeling SEN-SI-TIV-I-TYYYY about dating stuff atm)

ha damn i was sitting here all day thinking i'd be able to get it onto my ipod but i can't :(

oh no what's the prob

^ this has become more or less the standard info regarding "i want to be a writer" that I've heard from more or less every writer i know and yet they're all still writers, go figure

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, September 9, 2015 1:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well think about it, what ulterior motive might they have

they have a side hustle in finance?

tbh, i assume the reason most contemporary freelance pop culture writers write is because they enjoy having the finished product to look at / enjoy getting paid to be clever / enjoy the writing process to some degree / enjoy having their say
those have been major motivators for me when i dabble but i can't imagine writing for a living; freelancing is hard enough piecing together a budget when you have multi-month contracts

i respect the fuck outta anybody who does it; you're all astronauts to me

lol i definitely balance my freelance writing with a day job and suspect i'd die if i ever went completely freelance

I live by Wallace Stevens' stray remark about why he likes jobs: "After all, I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books as well as supreme fiction."

lol i definitely balance my freelance writing with a day job and suspect i'd die if i ever went completely freelance

I've done it for a few months at a stretch. Back in 2008-2009 I did it for almost two years, but that was back when I was able to collect unemployment for 96 weeks. That helped a lot. These days, forget it. I have a full time job that has nothing to do with either music or journalism, and I write about whatever I feel like, whenever the mood strikes (which it mostly doesn't).

i really hate pitching stuff. which is why i don't pitch stuff. and why i don't write more. i pretty much only write if someone asks me to. and that doesn't happen very often. but 85% of the good stuff i've ever done has come about because someone asked me to do it. so, it works for me. i'm like the slow food movement of rock crit.

i almost never pitch either, it feels awful

I do pitch but it does feel awful every time

i freelanced A LOT when i had a 9-5 which feels pretty crazy in retrospect, but i also didn't have a kid then. now, i have a non-9-5 job that ends up leaving me with lots of little pockets of free time to get writing done, but i also have kids, so i'm kind of handicapped a +1 and a -1 that even out. but now i kind of only write what i want -- the ideas i'm too excited to not see through, or the assignments that pay too well to turn down -- and i'm happy w/ that. bouncing between writing and a different kind of work makes me enjoy both more, i think if i only wrote i would enjoy it less.

Social media presence has def helped the reception of my pitches, but it's thanks to a full time job that I can do this shit. I will never underestimate having the sort of job with uninterrupted computer time for a couple hours a day.

related: http://priceonomics.com/the-priceonomics-freelance-writing-program-s1000

sorry to clog the maura thread up with "the difficulties and wonders and challenges of being a freelance writer in the aughties"; is there a better thread?
should i maybe make one?

do freelancers all have day jobs to provide their income?

side note: why is that site called "priceonomics"? That just seems like a weirdly redundant coinage, it's like saying "Relitheology"

thx for that curmudgeon, reposting.

Air Supply? Really? Haha :)

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new issue in a week if everything comes together. thanks anyone who has held onto their subscriptions (they're going down in price bc of the intense delays i experienced all last year (and this year so far lol) in getting issues out)

Sorry for cryptic post. Maura was just on the CBC 20 mins ago discussing that particular Antipodean atrocity.

ah lol