I did, because I worked on the lit mag in high school, and if a poem was not about suicide or love gone wrong it was a knock-off of it. And I was a poet once...poets should know, it's iconic.(A little bit too iconic...I really do think.)
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - Feb 02, 2004 9:46:10 am PST #3290 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Holli - Feb 02, 2004 3:06:06 pm PST #3291 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Between high school litmag and bad fanfic, I figure I'm pretty well inured to the worst of what the publishing industry can throw at me. Which is good, because I fully expect to spend a lot of time with the slush pile if I intern for a publishing company.
victor infante - Feb 02, 2004 3:24:31 pm PST #3292 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Between high school litmag and bad fanfic, I figure I'm pretty well inured to the worst of what the publishing industry can throw at me. Which is good, because I fully expect to spend a lot of time with the slush pile if I intern for a publishing company.
Heh, heh, heh.
You think you know. What you are. What's to come. You haven't even begun.
deborah grabien - Feb 02, 2004 3:27:52 pm PST #3293 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Holli, take it from someone who's done both sides of the fence, as writer and as publishing company employee: Victor is horribly, tragically right.
victor infante - Feb 02, 2004 3:30:07 pm PST #3294 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Holli, take it from someone who's done both sides of the fence, as writer and as publishing company employee: Victor is horribly, tragically right.
All I can say is, I hope that you never encounter work as horribly, horribly bad as the poem that made an editor friend of mine reply with the one sentence rejection letter, "I'm sorry. I was looking for something that was actually good."
deborah grabien - Feb 02, 2004 3:32:43 pm PST #3295 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Victor, howsabout falling in love with a manuscript, having everyone agree that the author deserves a Pulitzer, and then having the publisher bring it out in limited midlist with no pr and no backup because all their advertising money is tied up in frontlist writers who desperately need the publicity, like poor unknown Stephen King?
victor infante - Feb 02, 2004 3:34:52 pm PST #3296 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Victor, howsabout falling in love with a manuscript, having everyone agree that the author deserves a Pulitzer, and then having the publisher bring it out in limited midlist with no pr and no backup because all their advertising money is tied up in frontlist writers who desperately need the publicity, like poor unknown Stephen King?
Ouch. Yeah, that sucks.
But to be fair, that book took SK's assistants hours to write.
scrappy - Feb 02, 2004 3:36:51 pm PST #3297 of 10001
Nobody
While working at a big theater in NYC, we once had to reject a play by informing the writer that it was not neccessary to put quotes around every line of dialogue and suggesting that he might actually like to read a couple plays before reworking this one. Also had to point out to another hopeful that in plays one page is about one minute playing time, so a 723 page play about Columbus was a LITTLE long for an evening's entertainment.
victor infante - Feb 02, 2004 3:41:18 pm PST #3298 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
so a 723 page play about Columbus was a LITTLE long for an evening's entertainment.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Oh my. That's amazing.
Betsy HP - Feb 02, 2004 3:42:14 pm PST #3299 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
If only Mr. O'Neill had listened.