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Category Archives: Write
Blogging Reconsidered
Perhaps I want to write without the constraint of dignity and given what I’ve seen online, a blog seems to allow that sort of “freedom.” Maybe telling your boss, coworker, acquaintances and friends potentially embarrassing details about your life is more difficult than broadcasting it to the online universe.
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Why This Blog?
Why am I writing a blog? Aside from the usual cynical self-centered reasons, a significant part of me wants to help you. (My “other careers” were devoted to helping others also.) For almost 40 years I have been trying to become a paid fiction writer, and I wrote my first short story when I was about ten. (I was the goofball who volunteered to recite poetry in my eighth grade class. Sound familiar?) Becoming a … Continue reading
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Tagged askwritefish, blogging, delusions, dreams, fly fishing, Jeff May, Jeffrey Penn May, Pushcart Prize, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Where the River Splits, writing
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Meritorious Rejection
Writing may be the only “profession” that measures success by the quality of failure. While I’ve lost count long ago, I know I must have received thousands of rejections over the years. Some of them have been “successful” rejections from reputable places like Scribners, The New Yorker, The Missouri Review, Boulevard, the new Electric Literature, and many others. Not as good as acceptance, and not nearly as good as being paid, but much better than impersonal forms, … Continue reading
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