Jan Marquart's Blog - Posts Tagged "poetry"
Everywritersresource.com
Any body hear of everywritersresource.com? Well they accept flash fiction and poetry. They just accepted a poem of mine that they will put on line. I'll let you know when it's out. If you sign up for EWR you will receive it when it is my turn to be published. They publish one a day. Happy writing!!!! Jan
This Was a Surprise to Me!
I love reading large books. In the 70's I read Michener's Hawaii. Then QB VII. I loved reading large books because they allowed me to savor a story and live with characters for weeks. I didn't buy thin books. They were simply a tease.
My appreciation grew for those authors as I started writing my own books and found I couldn't write any more than 266 pages, as you can see in The Basket Weaver, www.createspace.com/3553668, without getting really stressed out. Just how did those authors do it? I sometimes feel that I wimped out on my own love for thick books by writing thinner ones. The divide between what I love to read and what I love to write got wider and deeper.
So never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever write poetry. Not to mention the fact that I rarely understood poetry and felt it a waste of time to read something I didn't understand. So when I jotted down a list of words, because moving to another state took my concentration to write books, I can honestly say, I hadn't planned on writing poetry, in fact, I didn't see it as poetry.
I simply started out with words. Just words. I thought they would be prompts for me to remember what I had hoped one day to write about. Then I added an adjective or adverb and I let it stay there. However, I found myself editing the list for meaning, again to remember what I wanted to write, and realized that I had created something else. Was this how the poets did it? Was this poetry? If it wasn't poetry, what was it?
This was a surprise to me! I decided to send these pieces to online publishing magazines and I was stunned. Several of them got accepted. Many will appear in upcoming issues; I don't believe most of them are out yet.
But check it out:
www.everywritesresource.com published Unemployment
Randomly Accessed Poetry will publish two pieces, Poetry and Cycles
Poetry Victims will publish Stalker
Although this is not a poem, www.ladyinkmagazine.com accepted Old Friends - this is already online, as is Henry's Goodbye published by www.Solecisms.
So to all those of you who write and do nothing with your writing: take the next step and send out your work. You just never know...
until next time,
jan
My appreciation grew for those authors as I started writing my own books and found I couldn't write any more than 266 pages, as you can see in The Basket Weaver, www.createspace.com/3553668, without getting really stressed out. Just how did those authors do it? I sometimes feel that I wimped out on my own love for thick books by writing thinner ones. The divide between what I love to read and what I love to write got wider and deeper.
So never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever write poetry. Not to mention the fact that I rarely understood poetry and felt it a waste of time to read something I didn't understand. So when I jotted down a list of words, because moving to another state took my concentration to write books, I can honestly say, I hadn't planned on writing poetry, in fact, I didn't see it as poetry.
I simply started out with words. Just words. I thought they would be prompts for me to remember what I had hoped one day to write about. Then I added an adjective or adverb and I let it stay there. However, I found myself editing the list for meaning, again to remember what I wanted to write, and realized that I had created something else. Was this how the poets did it? Was this poetry? If it wasn't poetry, what was it?
This was a surprise to me! I decided to send these pieces to online publishing magazines and I was stunned. Several of them got accepted. Many will appear in upcoming issues; I don't believe most of them are out yet.
But check it out:
www.everywritesresource.com published Unemployment
Randomly Accessed Poetry will publish two pieces, Poetry and Cycles
Poetry Victims will publish Stalker
Although this is not a poem, www.ladyinkmagazine.com accepted Old Friends - this is already online, as is Henry's Goodbye published by www.Solecisms.
So to all those of you who write and do nothing with your writing: take the next step and send out your work. You just never know...
until next time,
jan
