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Edited on Wed Jan-25-06 09:29 PM by joeybee12
Hi!
Sorry I haven’t been quicker in posting this, but here goes:
As in my original post, this would be an online magazine for those of us who are unpublished or under-published. I’m thinking quarterly. I would be the “coordinator” not the editor, until such time someone else wants to take over. By coordinator, I would just essentially be the person you would submit the stories to, and I would put them in our magazine. I can’t see us going for a topic each issue—it would just be anything and everything people submit. We could pass around stories to each other prior to submitting them for feed-back, etc., but once they’re submitted, that’s it. This philosophy would be explained in a sidebar somewhere in each issue.
Let me expound on submitting “anything.” By this, I mean ANYTHING. It could be fiction or poetry, novel excerpts or short shorts. Any style, any genre, is appropriate. The important thing is to get our stuff out there. We could e-mail it (or the link) to literary agents, publishing houses, etc. Included with our articles would be our e-mail contacts. I see this online venture as our way of getting people to read our work. We could promote it here, and any other sites where we post (dailykos comes to mind). Sooner or later someone is bound to read this. The more we promote it, the better chance we have of someone taking an interest.
Next, what exactly would the magazine be? My original thought would be that I would get some blog from a host that offers them for free (they’re out there—I just have to recall which sites they are). The blog would be set up as our magazine. Or, do you think it might be possible to have it hosted here at DU as a sub forum to the writing forum? In any case, I expect us to remind our fellow DU-er’s about its existence.
A title. Nadinbrzeinski had suggested The Beacon. That’s taken, so he suggested The Literary Beacon.
Only other suggestion so far is from moi: The Necessary Language. Here’s the quote I’ve taken it from: “Yes, they say, go and write whatever story you want, but don’t use whatever language is necessary…By implication those in authority ask the writer to censor and suppress her or his own work. They demand it. If you don’t comply then your work isn’t produced.” James Kelman, “The Importance of Glasgow in My Work.”
The idea is that we are unpublished, but we can use the necessary language because we don’t have an editor, we just submit whatever style or genre. Just to write—that’s the freedom we have. This is a learning experience because we all have hopes of being produced…eventually.
Anyway, those are my thoughts so far to get this sucker rolling. Please post here with ideas and suggestions so that we can move forward quickly (I know, I know, I’m the one to blame for the slowness so far!). Thanks!
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