My role in Bad Art Friend, Slice Magazine closing, Bellevue Lit Review & Ploughshares anniversaries, new mystery story anthology, approachable lit mags, mags for hybrid work and more
As a person who has been writing for decades out of personal love, cherishing the sharing with response groups, classes, and workshops, organizing retreats, and persevering and supporting other writers though our walls of rejections, just witnessing the inscrutable edges of this social media scrum among young writers who, as it sounds, are publish and connected, is extremely disheartening.
The most talented and productive writer I know writes daily in a life-built forest of stacked, stuffed journals they never share with groups. They never submit. Things like this are why.
I stay out of such discussions on Twitter because they are detrimental to my creative energy. Not what I subscribe for.
Fine. But you are disrespecting the thousands of sincere writers like yourself who keep trying to get our work out to a wider audience through the many venues that exist. And those who "never submit" are being selfish curmudgeons who for some obtuse reasoning prefer to gloat alone in the isolation. Who knows ifyou might not even learn something valuable if you tried a few magazines and were acceped, or read what peope are writing that might actually move and inspire you? Yours is an act of cowardice, let me say it straight up.
This edition of the newsletter is fantastic - probably the best yet. Thanks, Becky.
All the best in the moving process. Welcome home!
As a person who has been writing for decades out of personal love, cherishing the sharing with response groups, classes, and workshops, organizing retreats, and persevering and supporting other writers though our walls of rejections, just witnessing the inscrutable edges of this social media scrum among young writers who, as it sounds, are publish and connected, is extremely disheartening.
The most talented and productive writer I know writes daily in a life-built forest of stacked, stuffed journals they never share with groups. They never submit. Things like this are why.
I stay out of such discussions on Twitter because they are detrimental to my creative energy. Not what I subscribe for.
Fine. But you are disrespecting the thousands of sincere writers like yourself who keep trying to get our work out to a wider audience through the many venues that exist. And those who "never submit" are being selfish curmudgeons who for some obtuse reasoning prefer to gloat alone in the isolation. Who knows ifyou might not even learn something valuable if you tried a few magazines and were acceped, or read what peope are writing that might actually move and inspire you? Yours is an act of cowardice, let me say it straight up.
Put it another old fashioned way, rephrased - if you cant stand heat, don't bother us busy in the kitchen.