tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post2808506792882162746..comments2023-10-09T12:06:17.459+01:00Comments on Emerging Writer: On submitting PoetryEmerging Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06539530495238043923noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post-3193504574400926662008-07-19T17:40:00.000+01:002008-07-19T17:40:00.000+01:00Voice, AGH! You've got all my sympathies with you ...Voice, AGH! You've got all my sympathies with you now. But voice only comes when you're not trying; it's like "Don't think of elephants", It's so easy it's too hard. Or it's so hard it's too easy. Or something.<BR/><BR/>I've found the best way is, to sweat your [***] off for years on the<BR/>thing until your frustration finally bursts into a big tantrum of swearing and hair-pulling so that you finally say AH FORGET IT and just dump your bleeding heart all over the page.<BR/><BR/>Sounds dumb, but seriously. I did that and sent it to the Arts Council and then felt like I'd humiliated myself...but they gave me the grant, 15K. So it works.<BR/><BR/>Not that I'd recommend it. I take pills now.Susan at Stony Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385202649291774852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post-37098439766123064562008-07-19T16:43:00.000+01:002008-07-19T16:43:00.000+01:00Hi Susan,Thanks for dropping by. I', struggling to...Hi Susan,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for dropping by. I', struggling to get a consistent voice in my novel, so I'm editing, hence the wordcount is not moving. thanks for askingEmerging Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06539530495238043923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post-19917962555404393932008-07-19T16:06:00.000+01:002008-07-19T16:06:00.000+01:00Thanks for that link, and the comments! Poetry is ...Thanks for that link, and the comments! <BR/><BR/>Poetry is a skill I've never mastered much as I'd love to, and reading it leaves me bewildered as often as inspired.<BR/><BR/>Maybe it's because I use it as a procrastination tool....oh speaking of which by the way...<BR/><BR/>How's the novel coming?Susan at Stony Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385202649291774852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post-88920790128929776112008-07-15T18:07:00.000+01:002008-07-15T18:07:00.000+01:00Or my bugbear, priests and nuns and mountainy men ...Or my bugbear, priests and nuns and mountainy men and gossipy iron-haired married women in rural stories as if rural life has remained unchanged since the 50s. It hasn't. BegorrahEmerging Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06539530495238043923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post-72565746008159877482008-07-15T13:04:00.000+01:002008-07-15T13:04:00.000+01:00Ditto short story writers writing like Liam O'Flah...Ditto short story writers writing like Liam O'Flaherty, Walter Macken et al. All very good in their time but we are in the 21st Century, begorrah.<BR/>I have no objection to hist fic (I love it, in fact) but it must be that, not modern stories written as if mobile phones etc were never invented. Begob.Group 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post-11342229551068678682008-07-15T11:07:00.000+01:002008-07-15T11:07:00.000+01:00Thanks for this - very helpful indeed! :)Thanks for this - very helpful indeed! :)Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07021142277030520755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post-33477986250109999102008-07-13T12:47:00.000+01:002008-07-13T12:47:00.000+01:00Forsooth, that is a most excellent quotation! I wi...Forsooth, that is a most excellent quotation! I will verily use it myself, begads.Emerging Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06539530495238043923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684536971172270103.post-58876019831122918212008-07-13T12:16:00.000+01:002008-07-13T12:16:00.000+01:00I have that book, 101 Ways to Make your Poems Sell...I have that book, 101 Ways to Make your Poems Sell. There is indeed a great deal of sound advice with applicability beyond the poetry world. <BR/>My favorite quote is this: "Poets writing in the manner of the nineteenth-century Romantics are advised to seek publishers from the same era." I've used it myself in workshops :)<BR/>Hope oxegen was sunny :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.com