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1. A photo collage on the cover of Harp-Strings Poetry Journal (you can view the collage at www.flickr.com/photos/302.../422140063/ )
2. An article on copyright in Poets' Forum Magazine. (Writing the article inspired the poem that Asimov's is using.)
Both are Summer 2007 issues.
I've also been invited to write another article for PFM, and an article (a paying gig!) for my college alumni magazine. Tonight I'll send in topic proposals for the latter.
Our central A/C has died after a generous 27-year run, so when I felt too hot to draft I spent time typing up my handwritten journal. This is an infrequent but regular activity of mine, and since I'm usually inputting months if not years worth I get to rediscover and integrate all sorts of things. This time it was a vague story sketch from 2005, inspired by an article I'd read in 2004. I'm between book drafting and saw how I could possibly make the short story fly: where the conflict lay, the character and plot dynamics, etc. Before then it had been a concept I wanted to play with but wasn't sure how.
So, I've started drafting that -- and will see how far I get as my brain fries pending the installation of a new A/C system.
My anthology submission was an "almost" -- enough so that the editors asked to keep it on file in case they expand the project. "We're not doing this to many submissions, but we thought your story was too interesting to let disappear," they wrote. One of the better rejections. :) Meanwhile I'm free to submit it elsewhere.
2. An article on copyright in Poets' Forum Magazine. (Writing the article inspired the poem that Asimov's is using.)
Both are Summer 2007 issues.
I've also been invited to write another article for PFM, and an article (a paying gig!) for my college alumni magazine. Tonight I'll send in topic proposals for the latter.
Our central A/C has died after a generous 27-year run, so when I felt too hot to draft I spent time typing up my handwritten journal. This is an infrequent but regular activity of mine, and since I'm usually inputting months if not years worth I get to rediscover and integrate all sorts of things. This time it was a vague story sketch from 2005, inspired by an article I'd read in 2004. I'm between book drafting and saw how I could possibly make the short story fly: where the conflict lay, the character and plot dynamics, etc. Before then it had been a concept I wanted to play with but wasn't sure how.
So, I've started drafting that -- and will see how far I get as my brain fries pending the installation of a new A/C system.
My anthology submission was an "almost" -- enough so that the editors asked to keep it on file in case they expand the project. "We're not doing this to many submissions, but we thought your story was too interesting to let disappear," they wrote. One of the better rejections. :) Meanwhile I'm free to submit it elsewhere.
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