Would you send poems into a place that had a print journal, and has added an online journal, and they're different? So you're submitting for both, and some things will go in one, and some things in the other, and you don't know which or what until after an acceptance?

so i was talking to a friend about medical care last night. there is nothing so weird as talking to someone about medical care. especially other people's medical care ( Read more... )

Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Copy the instructions into your own note, and be sure to tag the person who tagged you ( Read more... )

Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers, Charles Bernstein (Harper's Magazine).

i googled today for "toile" and realized i meant "voile" in a story. i had a vision of fabric in my head - but had to check the word. could i have done that with a dictionary? maybe. but google/wiki/fabric sites were so much clearer. and i got to "voile" from searching for "sheer fabric" ... i could not remember "voile" (i had "toile" popping ( Read more... )

for better and for worse

i am starting the novel

i have kissed the page

after the baseball game tonight, there were fireworks.

i can't decide if i like the kirby krackle dots of golden light best, or if i like best the red/green/white/flashing/BANGINIG effect that looked like an endless number of xmas trees caught in a cataclysmic event, zapping into existence and then exploding out of it.

but good fire works are

do you think a writer should write stories with a theme in mind the way text books teach themes?

(the text book says that a story has a theme (or themes), and it is a universal message the author wants to communicate to the reader, like, "better safe than sorry" or "don't trust something which is too good to be true.")

http://www.amazon.com/Dzur-Vlad-Steven-Brust/dp/0765301482

ok, so it's been around since 2006, but i've been distracted, and only just found out, so i'm awesome excited. : ) : ) : ) : ) : ) : )

new Taltos book (to me) ! new Taltos book (to me) !

if i were a ghost ...

if i were a magazine ...

if i were a fashion designer ...

if i were a celebrity i would ...

if i were a note ...

if i were a date ...

my answers: ( Read more... )