Q&A
Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 8:05AM in Reflections Here I am, up on my writerly soapbox, "Do this challenge! Do that one!" And I've never thought to ask what you guys want to hear about.
So today is question and answer time. Are you considering pursuing a degree in Creative Writing but are on the fence? Are you considering pursuing a second degree in Creative Writing and are wondering if you've gone insane? Do you suffer from crippling writer's block? Are you just curious about Emerson College, or Boston, or about having a full-time job and/or significant other and/or a pet of some kind while also chasing down the writerly dream? Want to know what it's like to drive an ice cream truck? Or to have a paper route? Or to be a real estate agent? Or a college professor?
All these and more are things I could tell you.
Whatcha wanna know?
Reader Comments (2)
ok, I'll bite...What's it like to drive an ice cream truck? (Who knows....someday I may have a character who does that...) Do people ask if you sell drugs? Does the truck need to be hosed down at the end of each working day? How much stickiness can you tolerate?
Here's a REAL question: How do you choose which literary journals to send your stories to? I've always thought that one should have a good knowledge of what each 'zine specializes in genre-wise but other than that I just don't know how to go about it; how to choose the right level of "literary" (clearly I'm not thinking of submitting to The Paris Review or McSweeney's). How many places do you submit a story before you give up?
Thanks for biting! You will find my response here: http://www.unwrittenword.com/blog/2013/8/15/qa-part-i-ice-cream-trucks-and-literary-journals.html