So I was going to make a "Latin Zine" this past semester.  It was to be a collaborative project with my officemates but it fell through, mainly because I was going to do ALL of the writing for it and I just didn't have the time for that.  Zach did some illustrations for it and Deana ended up doing nothing at all.  I still want to re-work this into a zine of sorts.  I was going to give this to my class, so it assumes that you already know a little Latin.  It is intentionally written in a breezy, conversational style.  Of course, this is really an unfinished rough draft.  I don't write about verbs.  I started an outline on a verbs section but verbs would require as much space as all of the other parts of speech combined, I think.  

Other planned articles included "Why Study Latin?" and "The Secret Language of Philology."  In the former I would talk not about GRE scores (*yawn*) but personal fulfillment and joy.  The latter was a positive spin on the arcane terminology Philologists use as a guild cant, a cool metalanguage.

One project I really would like to work on is writing a zine or book which is all about grammar but which isn't boring.  I personally love reading Smyth or Allen & Greenough and find grammars exciting.  I'd like to convey the experience of reading a grammar but in easy prose rather than a reference manual.  A book that explains the ins and outs of the language that one can just read, and having read it, understand the language better.

Tore  Janson's A Natural History of Latin is inadequate since it is mainly an external history of the language.  The chapter on grammar at the end is too cursory and overly filled with tables.  Ostler's new Ad Infinitum is far superior but still doesn't contribute to one's actual knowledge of how Latin works.  Well, it does some.  Anyway.