Insomnia segues into grand news
Oct. 7th, 2003 06:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdonarkWhen I awoke at 4:30 a.m. this morning, I expected only to read friends' posts. I did not expect an e mail response from one of the poetry submissions I did last Summer. But there it was--"I really enjoyed very much...." and "I would like to publish..." and "...in the forthcoming edition".
As one who has for years relied on the pleasing sales of an eBayed self-published chess poetry chapbook (and lately, a side journal) for my personal light verse "transmissions of culture", it's really cool to have an on-line magazine I find delightful pick one of mine for publication. If this were a 40s biopic, we'd dissolve now into a voiceover as I typed my bit of biography into a reply e-mail. I'm really pleased about this. I never like to say where something is appearing, until it has appeared (jinx factor, and all that), but it's fun to just know it's appearing.
On another topic, I've realized that I want to write another nanowrimo novel. But I must make a confession--part of the reason I want to do so is to be able to hang out in Denny's with the other kids, perhaps with a hot fudge sundae or scrambled eggs, talking about books and things that to me are "real". Never mind that some of them are in constant communications with agents, and most of my publishing experience takes place at the copy shop at Office Depot. I just like the ambience of people who think and dream. I'm always intrigued, by the way, with sci fi people who are in serious writers' cabals and on first name bases with famed obscure "hard science" genre authors. What a cool, self-created universe. Maybe I should start a poetry circle--less dogmatic than a church, and so much easier to get people to attend and offer scripture.
As one who has for years relied on the pleasing sales of an eBayed self-published chess poetry chapbook (and lately, a side journal) for my personal light verse "transmissions of culture", it's really cool to have an on-line magazine I find delightful pick one of mine for publication. If this were a 40s biopic, we'd dissolve now into a voiceover as I typed my bit of biography into a reply e-mail. I'm really pleased about this. I never like to say where something is appearing, until it has appeared (jinx factor, and all that), but it's fun to just know it's appearing.
On another topic, I've realized that I want to write another nanowrimo novel. But I must make a confession--part of the reason I want to do so is to be able to hang out in Denny's with the other kids, perhaps with a hot fudge sundae or scrambled eggs, talking about books and things that to me are "real". Never mind that some of them are in constant communications with agents, and most of my publishing experience takes place at the copy shop at Office Depot. I just like the ambience of people who think and dream. I'm always intrigued, by the way, with sci fi people who are in serious writers' cabals and on first name bases with famed obscure "hard science" genre authors. What a cool, self-created universe. Maybe I should start a poetry circle--less dogmatic than a church, and so much easier to get people to attend and offer scripture.
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Date: 2003-10-07 04:27 am (UTC)You're one of the next ones on my list of "hand-written letters", which I've been turning out a couple at a time. What would you like for your personal accompanying poem to be about?
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Date: 2003-10-07 04:36 am (UTC)Great!
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Date: 2003-10-07 04:41 am (UTC)I've always meant to ask about your userpix. Sorry to betry my customary ignorance, but what are they?
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Date: 2003-10-07 05:45 am (UTC)Three cheers to you, Robert :-D
Hip-hip Hooray!
Hip-hip Hooray!
Hip-hip Hooray!
*drops hundreds of balloons all around you*
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To seek and be rewarded by success is sweet. But to have success find you is ambrosia!
I want to do so is to be able to hang out in Denny's with the other kids
I can only smile envisioning you in that, your true element.
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Date: 2003-10-07 07:27 am (UTC)Thanks for the kind wishes. I still have not tackled your splay, but I want to do so soon!
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Date: 2003-10-07 08:47 am (UTC)as Jack Kerouac is reputed to
have said from the sidelines,
when Alan Ginsberg first read
HOWL in public.
~paul
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Date: 2003-10-07 11:26 am (UTC)~paul
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Date: 2003-10-07 09:06 am (UTC)And yes, I totally understand not wanting to talk about where it is and all that until it's up, but I'm looking forward to reading it!
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Date: 2003-10-07 03:00 pm (UTC)time in a bottle
Date: 2003-10-07 06:12 pm (UTC)I stopped piano lessons without getting very far, and never learned guitar, so my electric autoharp is as close to melody as I get. So your piano/guitar skills certainly cause me envy :).
I tend to be very DIY about this writing sort of thing, although I'd published a few things before in magazines. It was fun to have someone out in the wide world be kind enough to publish me again. Thanks for the congratulations! Oh, and I learned my lesson Sunday--no more tactics! I'll be a boring player once more :). I'll be the only positional player on FICS, I'm sure.
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