Comments on: Weekly Wrap: How We Make Use of Conferences http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/ where writers come to play Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:44:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Linda http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-9078 Linda Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:57:30 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-9078 I'm going to the AWP in Atlanta this week. Any scoop on the reception portion of this? I'm trying to book my time accordingly. I had to laugh at your description of the overlapping panels. There's one this year called Inventors in the Temple. Hmm. I’m going to the AWP in Atlanta this week. Any scoop on the reception portion of this? I’m trying to book my time accordingly. I had to laugh at your description of the overlapping panels. There’s one this year called Inventors in the Temple. Hmm.

]]> By: n.l. belardes http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8895 n.l. belardes Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:15:35 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8895 There's a lot of deleting going on... There’s a lot of deleting going on…

]]> By: Claudia http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8885 Claudia Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:08:09 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8885 Thanks for this story Sue. Oh, we do this because we love it don't we? And it can be a rocky, potholed, stinky road sometimes. When I was fourteen I thought all published writers must live in houses climbing with ivy, dressed in L.L. Bean, and spending most of their time thinking poetic thoughts. Now I know better. I went to my first AWP last year. It was in Austin, where I live; I would have been foolish not to go. I met writers I'd known for years but never met in person, and it made me feel connected to the writing world in a way I hadn't in years. It meant a lot to me and I carried it with me all year long. Thanks for this story Sue. Oh, we do this because we love it don’t we? And it can be a rocky, potholed, stinky road sometimes. When I was fourteen I thought all published writers must live in houses climbing with ivy, dressed in L.L. Bean, and spending most of their time thinking poetic thoughts. Now I know better.

I went to my first AWP last year. It was in Austin, where I live; I would have been foolish not to go. I met writers I’d known for years but never met in person, and it made me feel connected to the writing world in a way I hadn’t in years. It meant a lot to me and I carried it with me all year long.

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8872 Susan Henderson Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:45:34 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8872 Ellen - Ha! I know. Oh, the things I can't say... ! Ellen - Ha! I know. Oh, the things I can’t say… !

]]> By: Ellen Meister http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8870 Ellen Meister Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:32:11 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8870 Lol. You're like Richard Nixon. One of these days those missing 18 minutes of tape will surface! Lol. You’re like Richard Nixon. One of these days those missing 18 minutes of tape will surface!

]]> By: Kim Chinquee http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8746 Kim Chinquee Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:23:31 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8746 Sue, DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE. Love the story about your AWP in Vancouver. I feel sorry to have missed that one. I miss working with you and Night Train. Oh, and I'm late in response to an earlier note this week: Our AWP panel for this year is Thursday at 1:30 and listed as The Online Writing Community and Flash Fiction:Words Across the World; it includes panel memebers Claudia Smith, Darlin Neal, Kathy Fish, Jeff Landon, Liesl Jobson (who is coming all the way from South Africa) and (from Australia) Girija Tropp. Sue, DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE.

Love the story about your AWP in Vancouver. I feel sorry to have missed that one. I miss working with you and Night Train.

Oh, and I’m late in response to an earlier note this week: Our AWP panel for this year is Thursday at 1:30 and listed as The Online Writing Community and Flash Fiction:Words Across the World; it includes panel memebers Claudia Smith, Darlin Neal, Kathy Fish, Jeff Landon, Liesl Jobson (who is coming all the way from South Africa) and (from Australia) Girija Tropp.

]]> By: LaurenBaratz-Logsted http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8627 LaurenBaratz-Logsted Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:24:58 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8627 Susan, ice-skating with the kids definitely sounds like more fun than visiting my, um, Ho thread. It'll keep. And DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE. Susan, ice-skating with the kids definitely sounds like more fun than visiting my, um, Ho thread. It’ll keep. And DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE.

]]> By: n.l. belardes http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8626 n.l. belardes Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:58:34 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8626 DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE…. OK, this was a thoroughly absolutely unlikely depressing blog entry from our normally chipper Susie girl. This was more like Souixsee and the Banshees. I give up. I’m joining the foreign legion… I'm strapping bubble gum to my head and try to bungee bubble jump from the Eiffel Tower. Seriously, this blog was terrific. I’m energized, because you just told me what Noveltown is doing is RIGHT. Starting a lit magazine, start small, start grassroots, get advertising, and give the mag away... And… it’s got newspaper and blog qualities to it. And, you gave me a great idea. Maybe Perez Hilton will be on the cover of the next issue and one lucky winner can be on the back cover! Hell yeah! I agree: a lot of literary types are stuffy... Noveltown is only going to balance zany and wacky and great lit... who can ask for more? Take the lit magazine to the readers… TO THE READERS! GRASSROOTS. Slight and polite criticism and difference between me and most literary blogs. Many lit blogs are for writers/publishers. I take my blog to the potential customers… (not that each other aren’t customers). Stay tuned for <a href='http://noveltown.net/noveltownreview' rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">The Noveltown Review</a>! Guerrilla marketing. It’s gonna be good. I’m peeing my pants! Oo! DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE….

OK, this was a thoroughly absolutely unlikely depressing blog entry from our normally chipper Susie girl. This was more like Souixsee and the Banshees. I give up. I’m joining the foreign legion… I’m strapping bubble gum to my head and try to bungee bubble jump from the Eiffel Tower.

Seriously, this blog was terrific. I’m energized, because you just told me what Noveltown is doing is RIGHT. Starting a lit magazine, start small, start grassroots, get advertising, and give the mag away… And… it’s got newspaper and blog qualities to it.

And, you gave me a great idea. Maybe Perez Hilton will be on the cover of the next issue and one lucky winner can be on the back cover! Hell yeah!

I agree: a lot of literary types are stuffy… Noveltown is only going to balance zany and wacky and great lit… who can ask for more?

Take the lit magazine to the readers… TO THE READERS! GRASSROOTS.

Slight and polite criticism and difference between me and most literary blogs. Many lit blogs are for writers/publishers. I take my blog to the potential customers… (not that each other aren’t customers).

Stay tuned for The Noveltown Review!

Guerrilla marketing.

It’s gonna be good.

I’m peeing my pants! Oo!

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8624 Susan Henderson Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:18:49 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8624 Lauren - I just figured out how to get back into Backspace. When I switched computers I lost all of my automatic log-ins. All better now, though no time yet for a diversion. My kids are off school this week, and we're going ice skating in a half hour or so. Ellen - DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE. Gail - What a sweetheart. Betsy - I'm so glad you understand! Rusty - This comment will not be <i>to</i> Rusty but <i>about</i> him. First of all, if you're going to AWP, do track Rusty down and take a look at his beautiful magazine. Rusty reads and subscribes to more lit mags than anyone I know, so he's not one of those guys who says he supports small press but really doesn't. Okay, the other comment about Rusty is where we diverged as editors. Both of us, clearly, are smart cookies with amazing literary taste. But Rusty's comment about 'DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE anyway,' shows where he's so wrong. Because while Rusty wanted Night Train to rise above the other magazines purely on its literary worth, I would have been the first editor on staff to try to get Paris Hilton to submit a haiku. Not only that, I could have stood proud while Rusty cringed. But Robin - Don't you remember DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE? I live for things like that. Carolyn - I'll be there again this year, and we're sitting together, okay? Aurelio - I've been missing you! Juliet - Ha! Perfect! Lauren - I just figured out how to get back into Backspace. When I switched computers I lost all of my automatic log-ins. All better now, though no time yet for a diversion. My kids are off school this week, and we’re going ice skating in a half hour or so.

Ellen - DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE.

Gail - What a sweetheart.

Betsy - I’m so glad you understand!

Rusty - This comment will not be to Rusty but about him. First of all, if you’re going to AWP, do track Rusty down and take a look at his beautiful magazine. Rusty reads and subscribes to more lit mags than anyone I know, so he’s not one of those guys who says he supports small press but really doesn’t. Okay, the other comment about Rusty is where we diverged as editors. Both of us, clearly, are smart cookies with amazing literary taste. But Rusty’s comment about ‘DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE anyway,’ shows where he’s so wrong. Because while Rusty wanted Night Train to rise above the other magazines purely on its literary worth, I would have been the first editor on staff to try to get Paris Hilton to submit a haiku. Not only that, I could have stood proud while Rusty cringed.

But Robin - Don’t you remember DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE? I live for things like that.

Carolyn - I’ll be there again this year, and we’re sitting together, okay?

Aurelio - I’ve been missing you!

Juliet - Ha! Perfect!

]]> By: Juliet http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8622 Juliet Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:55:46 +0000 http://litpark.com/2007/02/23/weekly-wrap/#comment-8622 DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE Lance as DELETE DELETE. DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE Lance as DELETE DELETE.

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