More on rejection… Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Light discusses what it’s like to be responsible for reviewing unsolicited manuscripts. I agree with her: It’s not as easy as writers seem to think. She talks specifically about the comments at RejectionCollection.com, where writers send and react to the rejections they’ve received. (Thanks to Inner Bitch …
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Rejection and publication
“Two years ago, the manuscript of what was to be “Everyday Matters” was lying in a drawer. At the time, it was pretty much like the book that’s in stores today but it was called simply “A New York Diary”. “In late January, 2002, I had lunch with a friend who had just published a …
David Foster Wallace parody competition
DFW Parody Competition Finalists. An excerpt from my favorite entry: The Y-shaped Styles of Certain Flowers So. There are two people on a date and they’re eating dinner, and the guy is telling this long involved story about another guy who was having some difficulties and was diagnosed as having some sort of quote-unquote syndrome, …
All Things Hodgman
I recently came across this interview with John Hodgman for Media Bistro. I’m a big fan of Hodgman. He went to school in the Boston area (as I did, although not at the same school and with only perhaps a year overlap, time-wise). He writes really funny yet introspective stuff. He appears frequently on This …
Upcoming Event: Gist Street Reading Series, Feb 14
From the mailing list announcement from Sherrie Flick: “The February Gist Street is on SATURDAY, February 14th. That’s right–a Valentine’s Gist. Come with your honey, come stag–but please do come to hear Anthony McCann and Matt Rohrer read their poetry. “Both in from Brooklyn for the occasion, these guys have promised love poems and other …
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Fan fiction promotes writing skills in children
An article in Technology Review, “Why Heather Can Write,” looks at the fan fiction communities that have sprung up around the Harry Potter books and their influence on children’s creativity and literacy. From the article: “Like many of the other young writers, Agonistes says that Rowling’s books provide her with a helpful creative scaffolding: