Every time I receive a rejection from a literary journal I tell myself ”It’s a badge of honor. ” Sometimes I even do a happy dance and shout out a little whoot whoot, you know, as if it were something to celebrate. And in a way it really is. When my work is rejected, [...]
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I have been quite remiss in updating this blog, but rest assured it is NOT because I’m not writing (though truth be told I could be writing more). Last semester I took a Fiction workshop. And I grumbled and groused the whole way through. I found writing fiction to be difficult, overwhelming, kind of [...]
I really AM okay with this… ya gotta play to win, right!? Not all the writing prompts worked well for me… For this particular session, we received an envelope filled with randomly selected letters that was supposed to inspire us to write about our destiny. My first response:Note I had to cut up a letter to make that work. And then I came up with this: [...] It’s bullshit. I want to win. I’m tired of being nominated. Yeah, I said I didn’t really care, that I was so honored to get invited in for an interview…. that I totally would understand if they had the single, non-soccer mom, non-property-owner, no tax deductions, north county coastal liberal perspective covered. But I [...] Yeah me! I made it through to Round 2, and the producer has asked for more writing samples. Let me preface the next commentary with saying that 1. I love KPBS and 2. I welcome the opportunity to apply for the Citizen Voices project and 3. I have no idea how I would [...] My entry, Letters From Heaven, was selected for San Diego Writers, Ink Audio Anthology : Year 3. Whew. After all the rejection I was feeling like maybe I am not a writer. But maybe, just maybe I am better out loud than on the page. The coolest part is that we get to re-record [...] I just applied for a blogging gig. For KPBS radio/tv. KPBS is recruiting bloggers for an election-based project called Citizen Voices. Six people will be selected to blog as “citizen journalists” for KPBS.org from January 2008 through November 2008. Selected applicants will be trained (beginning Nov. 2007) in journalistic ethics to maintain fair and [...] Aren’t we all? I know I just posted that very negative post. I wrote it earlier. I don’t feel that bad anymore, but it did feel cathartic to expunge it from my body. To get those words out of my head… So please, don’t feel you need to comment with words of support. I [...] … and yet another “rejection” for my pile… no scholarship for the Taos Summer Writers Conference from the A Room of Her Own foundation. And even though on my last post I said I wasn’t hopeful, I lied. I was still hopeful. And no letter even. Not even a thank-you-for-your-application- but-you-suck form letter. [...] |
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