Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Taking a bit of a breather, folks. This regularly-scheduled post will return next week!
Taking a bit of a breather, folks. This regularly-scheduled post will return next week!
Heirlooms Has Arrived!
One of this week’s highlights: the arrival of my pre-ordered copy of Heirlooms, the debut collection of linked stories by my friend Rachel Hall. This is a gorgeous book (yes, go ahead and judge this one by its cover!).
You’ll discover more about Heirlooms and its wonderful author in the October issue of The Practicing Writer, which should be going out in just a couple of days. (Rachel will be the featured Q&A participant.)
In the meantime, however, I recommend that you read this terrific interview, published on Saturday over on The Rumpus. (more…)
Tally Time!
The most recent updates (for August) have begun to be posted over on Poetry Has Value. As always, I encourage you to read all of the posts from my contributing bloggers.
But if you want to skip directly to my submission, you’ll find it right here. (more…)
Revision Strategy?
Several days ago, a rejection came in for one of my poems, one that I didn’t happen to have out (currently) elsewhere. This is a poem that I thought might also match well with a venue that doesn’t seem to take simultaneous submissions. So when I considered “next steps” for the poem, I went to revisit the “new” venue’s guidelines.
Which is where I saw that said venue also prefers poems no longer than 18 lines.
I’d already figured that it might be time to apply additional revision to this poem. And the fact that the poem exceeded the 18-line limit helped jump-start the process in this case.
Next time I need to revise a poem and can’t quite begin to envision how to go about it, I may use a similar approach—even if the guidelines don’t compel me to do so.
Oh—I did, then, submit the poem anew. Stay tuned for the outcome! (more…)
I Did It!
It doesn’t feel as though I’ve “accomplished” much, writing-wise, over this past week, but in the spirit of Lisa Romeo’s annual “I Did It!” lists, I’ll share a few things that I have managed to do over the past seven days.