PrettyThin

I was trying to think of what you would be called if you were one of the people who submitted content for one of the PrettyThin projects. Would you be a PrettyThin Girl? It just sounded off. So I came up with this. You would be PrettyThin. You are what PrettyThin represents, but you are the life force and flesh and blood of it, because you are the content. You're the one making up these projects.

This is how you contribute content...

You've been doing this for a while, but from now on, project ideas that are good come into this section so people can submit content for them.

To give a good idea, tell me how yo envision it. What would we do with it on the site or how would we share it. What would it look like. And what kind of content would you ask for.

Where do you send it? pretty.thin@yahoo.com

A lot of you write songs and send the lyrics my way. Let's take it to the next level. Record it as an mps and send it to me. Give it a name, and what name you would want to be known as on the album. When we have 10 songs, I will put it on an "album" and make it available to everyone to hear.

Start sending me mp3's!

Do you want to be a part of the yearbook? You can have a page dedicated to you. This is how it works...

Send me a picture, but a high resolution picture. Something that could get printed in a book. PrettyMuch every camera takes a high res picture, so just send me what the camera takes. Pictures on most cell phones won't cut it. The picture doesn't have to be fancy. I know there are some professional models, and there will be some professional pictures in there, but it's not about that. It's whatever you want to show.

Some people don't care if their face is in the photo, and some do. Make sure you tell me which when you send the picture. Don't cover up things yourself in the picture. I don't want huge smilie faces across everyone. I can do the PhotoShop editing so it looks good. Just tell me what to cover so I can.

Send me some words. It can be poetry. It can be a quote. It can be thoughts or a journal entry. You can type it out or take a picture of what you wrote on a napkin or in a book and send that.

And what name do you want to go by.

These will be on each page. Once we have 100 submissions, we make a yearbook. We might have several volumes each year, we might have one...who knows. It all depends on submissions.

We will piblish a PrettyThin book of poetry every 3 months, collecting all the poetry submitted by members into a printable book.

To submit poetry to this book, go to the Your Thoughts section (the blog) of PrettyThin and submit an entry. Make sure to categorize the entry as poetry.

I will collect poetry and come images every 3 months and offer a version that you can publish to put on your table or view online.

People ask me all the time "how should I lose weight."

Well, we all have our current weight, and we all have our desired weight, our goal weight, our expected possible weight....

I am going to put together a book of diets. People who have great ideas or experience, success stories and receipies. This is a book of experiences. You may be someone who has tried things and failed or tried things and succeeded. Send your experience by email and be included.

What you should include in your email:
- you current weight and where you once were or where you want to be
- what you tried and how it worked or how it failed
- words of encouragement, your experiences, and ideas you have

Make it interesting. Make it valuable. Make it something you could see yourself wanting to read.

Some people requested making themed books for sale to keep in a dresser or on a coffee table.

These are the categories so far. They're just like the PrettyThin Yearbook, but more specific to a theme.

- Scene
- Fitness
- Bitch (and I hope everyone by now knows this means power and the fight for individuality)

Send the images along and make sure you let me know what theme it's for. Also include some words, a name or screen name, and anything else you want. Once I get enough pictures, I will start printing them up.

So far, these are all your ideas. Keep sending more.

Where do you send ideas? pretty.thin@yahoo.com