TRIGGER WARNING: This post contains details which may be triggering to survivors of sexual assault. Admitting that you've been sexually assaulted isn't easy. The shame, the self blame, and the humiliation over being violated runs deep. For some, it's easier to pretend it didn't happen, until something jolts your memory and it all comes rushing back. Was it that bad? For me, the trigger was … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Rick Bailey
WHAT? Subjects happen along. What I’m writing today will be shaped by something that happens tomorrow. A few weeks ago I saw a photograph of Heidi Klum stretching a pair of underpants, which reminded me of buying my first pair of microfibers in Florence, which reminded me of seeing, in a church close by the market, Masaccio’s Adam and Eve being ejected from the Garden of Eden, newly aware of … [Read more...]
Why You Should Query 100 Agents – My Search
And how to stay determined while you do! These numbers will tell you why you should make a pact with yourself to query at least 100 agents: Stats from my Agent Search I queried 83 agents in an eight-month period. 35 agents did not respond. Ever. 32 agents rejected my query without further ado. 11 agents requested more material and then rejected it. 5 agents were reading it when I received two … [Read more...]
Frustration, or Lost in Translation
The other day, my seven-year old granddaughter and I made critters out of sea shells. She did the designing and I handled the hot glue gun. I had to do my best to interpret her visions. I learned she's particular. She didn't want anything too crazy or make believe. No putting eyes on any old shell. I'd show her something and she would laugh and say, "Oh, Nana," as you would say to a silly child, … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Ruth Foley
WHAT? Poems. Lots and lots of poems—formal, free-verse, all the stuff in the middle. A list of five things that don’t suck (almost every day). Reviews, talks, emails. Too many emails. But then poems again. Editing Cider Press Review. And when I’m not doing that, there’s water and being on and/or in it; teaching; reading obsessively; a specialty in English as a Second Language; a deep abiding love … [Read more...]
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