Wednesday, March 23, 2011
a federal judge rejects google books settlement;
Google Inc.'s six year struggle to bring all the world's books to the Internet suffered another big
setback at the hands of a federal judge...
HELL YEAH!
maybe i should have called all the editors..
so i just made calls to Glenside News and The Clifton Journal, and both editors seemed interested in printing my article!!
i'm so excited! PROGRESS!
i'm so excited! PROGRESS!
spring break is over
back to work. i am going to submit my newspaper article to my local publication at school, the Glenside News, and my local publication at home, the Clifton Journal.
i am still waiting for magazine responses, although nearly all of the ones i sent queries to stated that it would take anywhere between a month to six weeks to respond to the queries.
i am feeling pretty good about the state of my project, even though i've only been published by one newspaper thus far. what i'm lacking in articles that have been printed, i'm making up for in learning experience.
i am still waiting for magazine responses, although nearly all of the ones i sent queries to stated that it would take anywhere between a month to six weeks to respond to the queries.
i am feeling pretty good about the state of my project, even though i've only been published by one newspaper thus far. what i'm lacking in articles that have been printed, i'm making up for in learning experience.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
sent off 5 more articles
i sent two of them to online publications; one is called thoughtcatalog.com, and the other was the Huffington Post.
fingers crossed!
fingers crossed!
rejection, again
so i've been rejected from Foreword Magazine. it's okay...I DIDN'T WANT TO BE PUBLISHED THERE ANYWAYS.
i'm kidding, i'm really not all that heartbroken. what i seem to have failed to realize is that whatever magazine does decide to publish me then gets the rights to the article, so i can only really be published by one magazine anyways.
heres to hoping i get published!
i'm kidding, i'm really not all that heartbroken. what i seem to have failed to realize is that whatever magazine does decide to publish me then gets the rights to the article, so i can only really be published by one magazine anyways.
heres to hoping i get published!
Monday, March 7, 2011
magazine submissions
i sent out query letters to 10+ magazines today. naturally, the class i had right AFTER i sent the queries explained proper query etiquette...mine were all wrong. so, should a miracle occur and i get commissioned to write an article for a magazine, i shall be glad, for apparently, my queries were downright offending.
acception!
my very first published article! it might only be in Arcadia's The Tower, but i'm happy. on the second page too! if all else fails, i will plaster my thesis spot with this article, making a fabulous collage of my words.
Friday, March 4, 2011
wish i could take credit for this, found while trolling internet
Date A Girl Who Reads by Rosemarie Urquico
(In Response to Charles Warnke’s You Should Date An Illiterate Girl.)
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.
busy, busy, busy!
so the query letter has been written, i've borrowed "the best of the magazine markets for writers 2011" from my writing for magazines teacher, and i will be sending the revised version of my magazine article out next week!
i don't have a target audience for this piece which is the only thing i'm a little worried about. i think it's relevant for any publication, because all sorts of people are buying e-readers, but magazines are targeted to such specific audiences now that i don't know who would be interested in publishing "Thinking of Buying an E-Reader? Five Reasons to Pick Print".
still, i shall try! i'm thinking my final presentation will include 3 different sections; "published, rejected, and pending". that will make me feel better about it...
i don't have a target audience for this piece which is the only thing i'm a little worried about. i think it's relevant for any publication, because all sorts of people are buying e-readers, but magazines are targeted to such specific audiences now that i don't know who would be interested in publishing "Thinking of Buying an E-Reader? Five Reasons to Pick Print".
still, i shall try! i'm thinking my final presentation will include 3 different sections; "published, rejected, and pending". that will make me feel better about it...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
rejection
maybe i set my sights a little high with the LA Times and the Chicago Sun Times, but i've received my first rejections. le sigh.
this week i intend on sending out more newspaper articles on top of some magazine articles. i want to do the revisions on my query letter and send out at least 3 articles.
my lack of posts has been due to the fact that i was in texas for the last week. though it was an amazing trip, i really have to get working on my project.
this week i intend on sending out more newspaper articles on top of some magazine articles. i want to do the revisions on my query letter and send out at least 3 articles.
my lack of posts has been due to the fact that i was in texas for the last week. though it was an amazing trip, i really have to get working on my project.
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