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Confessions of an Unpublished Mind
Now that things are under way at After the MFA, it’s only fair to come clean about something. Unless you count my high school literary journal — of which I happened to be editor-in-chief — I have...
View ArticleMaybe We Should Just Stop
Book and lit blog, BookFox (which I just discovered from my logs of links to this site) has a post about literary journals and their response times. I quote: I’ll have a tiny journal like Apple Valley...
View ArticleLet’s See, Now… What Else Can We Outsource?
It was probably arrogant and short-sighted of me to think journalism would ever be spared from the outsourcing wave. I’m all for emerging economies, but this is beyond bullshit. A publisher in Pasadena...
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What the Internet Has Done for Writing
Found this while browsing through the popular writing-related links on social bookmarking site Delicious. I can’t help but get a little annoyed at the $2-blog-writing schemes, SEO “content” farms, and...
View Article4 Years After My MFA — What Would I Have Done Differently?
Now that I’m four years past the official culmination of my MFA in creative writing program, when people ask me “what would you have done differently?” I feel like I can actually answer it with a level...
View ArticleOvercoming the Urge to Quit
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been a bit morose over the last couple of years. I have wanted to quit wanting to write and been indulging that demon as much as possible. But something kept...
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