ha ha i have recently been flogging husband (who is usually an actor or director) through 5 short stories for Radio New Zealand.
He keeps coming disconsalatly (spelling?) out into the family room and pathetically moaning - It's such hard work.
But when I praised them he perked up a bit. And when they accepted them and sent him the contract - he perked up even more.
cheers - jen> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:30:13 +0300> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: publishers (Re: A Question for Lurking List Members )> To: [log in to unmask]> > ouch P! or P-ouch, in a pouch.> > I write solely for fun as well. I'm trying to get out of inadvertent> attempts at grandeur, they're not 'me' really. it stems back to a time> when I more or less shamelessly borrowed from Ted Hughes. no more> > KS> > On 11/10/2007, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > Martin Hey a man of my own heart!! - I like writing it is fun!! It gets me> > by ---I can write clichés to get up Finnish Trolls noses :-) and I can do> > smilies --and I can have to get a poem done when there is a nasty job to do> > around the house-I can put apostrophes in the wrong places -and above all it> > brings in piles of money (for cat food mainly)> > Cheers P silver surfering> >> > -----Original Message-----> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On> > Behalf Of Martin Dolan> > Sent: 11 October 2007 15:19> > To: [log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: publishers (Re: A Question for Lurking List Members )> >> > I wrote a long ramble in response to this and other postings on the> > topic, which I deleted to save you all the effort. I left the following> > by way of summary:> >> > Jeez. I write stuff. Sometimes I like doing it. Sometimes I don't like> > doing it it, but do it anyway. Some people read it or listen to it (most> > don't). Some of them like it. More might if they had the chance (most> > still wouldn't). I'd probably feel good about pleasing more people. But> > I'd write stuff anyway. My day-job pays for it.> >> > Not much of an ars poetica, I know, but it works for me.> >> > Regards> >> > Martin> >> > Joseph Duemer wrote:> > > Sure, Jon, but this isn't really news, is it? And even if that is the main> > > or only reason to publish poems -- to get them on your vita -- such is the> > > way of the world. Are you suggesting that poetry is too pure for such> > social> > > contexts? That appearing in a journal corrupts something previously> > > undefiled? And how is the reductive focus of getting another line on your> > > vita tied up with the epistemological issue of "realness"? Is an> > unpublished> > > poem on your hard drive even a poem at all?> > >> > > jd> > >> > > On 10/10/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > >> > >> The main reason to publish poetry is as a credential to prove that> > >> you're a "real" poet. This is quite literally the case: there's a> > >> clear hierarchy of prestige among journals and book publishers, with> > >> the level of prestige correlating exactly to the amount of "realness"> > >> which publication in them confers on the poet published in them.> > >>> > >> To put it another way, more practically, and more bluntly, the reason> > >> to publish poetry with a journal or book publisher is so you can add> > >> the name of that journal or publisher to your resume.> > >>> > >> (I seem now to hear from all over the world scattered cries of> > >> "EEEK!!! WHAT HE SAID!!!!!...")> > >>> > >> --> > >> ===================================> > >>> > >> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/> > >>> > >> ===================================> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> > --> > No virus found in this incoming message.> > Checked by AVG Free Edition.> > Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.14.4/1055 - Release Date: 07/10/2007> > 10:24> >
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