Shared by JeSais we were just talking about tweeting stories last night Brevity is suddenly feeling fat, or at least a bit wordy. Here’s the new lit mag on the block, making brief even briefer: escarp is a selective, Twitter-based review of brief (140 chars or less) poetry and prose (including fiction and nonfiction). Call it a Twitterature review: escar […]
During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l'oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air. Before: Lockheed camouflage - before. After: Lockheed camouflage - after. Lockheed camouflage - stre […]
The online journal Drunken Boat has recently released issue eleven, featuring essays under 1,000 words exploring how folks — in this worldwide financial crisis — cope with the end of the prolonged age of consumption. Here’s the opening from Cal Freeman’s excellent “Some Notes from Dearborn, MI”: We are the bellwether species, that frog with the extra leg in […]
Any you keep playing and driving hard and finding your voice and submitting and driving hard and resubmitting and … remember the 9 steps to being a winner (see Little Miss Sunshine if you don’t recall). And you’ve got to love it! It is an intimate part of being a writer!
Hey, that’s exciting. I’ve heard you have to get a bunch of those out of the way before the other stuff happens. I know, being a visual artist, that rejection is just part of the deal. Not everybody can like everything. That’d be boring, or something. I’ve only ever received the rejection notices for writing… because I gave up on it so long ago. But I am excited to retry now!
Yay!!!!!!!!
You are inspiring.
MY COUSIN IS COOL!
Katie
PS Do you recommend wordpress for a blog hoster?
I’m going to do it!
[...] did manage to submit one brief essay to Brevity magazine. I also received one more rejection letter (from Prairie Schooner) in the mail for the piece I submitted at the end of last semester. I feel surprisingly proud of myself. Sure, [...]
Any you keep playing and driving hard and finding your voice and submitting and driving hard and resubmitting and … remember the 9 steps to being a winner (see Little Miss Sunshine if you don’t recall). And you’ve got to love it! It is an intimate part of being a writer!
Congratulations! And so the rejections pile up. But every once in a while, submissions lead to acceptance.
Hey, that’s exciting. I’ve heard you have to get a bunch of those out of the way before the other stuff happens. I know, being a visual artist, that rejection is just part of the deal. Not everybody can like everything. That’d be boring, or something. I’ve only ever received the rejection notices for writing… because I gave up on it so long ago. But I am excited to retry now!
Yay!!!!!!!!
You are inspiring.
MY COUSIN IS COOL!
Katie
PS Do you recommend wordpress for a blog hoster?
I’m going to do it!
[...] did manage to submit one brief essay to Brevity magazine. I also received one more rejection letter (from Prairie Schooner) in the mail for the piece I submitted at the end of last semester. I feel surprisingly proud of myself. Sure, [...]