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Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 6937
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 10:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." ~ Isaac Asimov

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." ~ T S Eliot

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers had it." ~ Ernest Hemingway

"To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." ~ Truman Capote

"The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies." ~ William Faulkner

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you." ~ Stephen King

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." W B Yeats

I really loved King's quote. So true for those out there who can't find a reason to read anyone's work but their own.

Love,
e
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Christopher T George
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Username: chrisgeorge

Post Number: 6967
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 12:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hi E

The Stephen King quote is similar to the advice that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a letter to his daughter Scottie when she was thinking of becoming a writer -- that you have to read good literature in order to be able to write good literature. Ernest Hemingway said the same in Ernest Hemingway on Writing available in paperback.

All the best

Chris
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LJ Cohen
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Username: ljc

Post Number: 10573
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 1:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

""You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." ~ Isaac Asimov "

So true, E. A timely message. I've been doing too much wallowing in self-pity and not enough submitting. Today, I submitted 3 short stories to 3 magazines, one to Fantasy and Science Fiction, one to Asimov's Science Fiction, and one to the InterGalactic Medicine Show.

If any of them are returned to me, I'll turn around and send it out again to another market.

The stories aren't doing anyone any good sitting on my hard drive.

xo
ljc
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Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 6941
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 5:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Chris seems the pros know that the river of inspiration runs deep. Thanks for the added trivia on this. Didn't know about Scottie!

Lisa glad it was timely. I posted this for my own inspiration too. Well done on sending out all those submissions! I have to send out a big batch but I don't think I can do much until I come back in town mid-January. Well maybe I can discipline myself over the weekend to organize and submit. You've inspired me.

xo
e
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Kyoto Journal
Fred Longworth
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 5121
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 5:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Don't forget to accidentally enclose a $20 bill with each submission. For Ploughshares enclose a Grant. For Poetry or Paris Review, a Franklin.

Derf
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Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 6942
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 5:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

How about a shoe?
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Gary Blankenship
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Username: garydawg

Post Number: 26319
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 5:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Poetry is therefore I am.

either that or

an old poet
into a froen pond
craaack

Smiles.

Gary
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Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 6945
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 8:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

yes gar--po with or without the bells and whistles..
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Kathy Paupore
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Username: kathy

Post Number: 10303
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 - 9:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

E, my fav quotes the Hemingway one, and of course the King one, I think I jotted that one down somewhere myself.

Kathy
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