the ironically named land-grant college review has a funky online submission system that lets you log in and see if they've looked at your work yet. it's a bit of a worry that they say they'll say they'll send a rejection letter when a story's status has changed - do they ever send acceptances? - but I like the pieces they have up on the site and frankly, I've nearly run out of Australian magazines to annoy. I don't like having stories sitting unused; it's bad for my motivation. why should my unconscious come up with new stuff if the old stuff's not being used?
Monday, July 17, 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006
as I spend my morning laboriously writing separate envelopes and filling out forms to enter a regional library competition (with stories that arrived back home, rejected, yesterday), I wonder whether there is any point at all. you can bet Peter Carey ain't filling out his own forms. hell, he probably doesn't even have to enter regional library competitions at all, now that he's got a Booker prize and all.
sigh.
I might just get out the scissors and paste and do me a new BlueBug. at least that's something you can hold in your hand.
sigh.
I might just get out the scissors and paste and do me a new BlueBug. at least that's something you can hold in your hand.
Monday, July 10, 2006
went to see the movie Factotum, about Bukowski, on Sunday; if I wasn't already a writer I'd now be under the impression that being a writer means drinking constantly and never shaving. I could never write drunk. coffee, now that's a writing drug.
anyway, there was a line, something like "whenever I doubt my talent I read another writer and then I know I have nothing to worry about". I googled it - yes, google is officially a verb now, but I can't be bothered googling the dictionary reference to prove it - but couldn't find it. it could be an adaptation of his statement that he can tell when another writer is faking it.
when I read another writer, a good one, I despair. the gap between vision and execution is so wide. but at least I have, I think, I hope, the vision.
anyway, there was a line, something like "whenever I doubt my talent I read another writer and then I know I have nothing to worry about". I googled it - yes, google is officially a verb now, but I can't be bothered googling the dictionary reference to prove it - but couldn't find it. it could be an adaptation of his statement that he can tell when another writer is faking it.
when I read another writer, a good one, I despair. the gap between vision and execution is so wide. but at least I have, I think, I hope, the vision.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
went to the launch of a zine exhibition at the city library last night and added two BlueBugs to the zines clothes-pegged to the walls. the style and topics seem endless - as I guess they are, given a zine tends to be the outpourings of one or two individuals.
