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FORKNI-L Digest - 20 May 2001 to 21 May 2001 (#2001-163)

Mon, 21 May 2001

There are 4 messages totalling 149 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. To post or not to post
  2. comments, critiques, and disclamers (2)
  3. Near Death Apparatice

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Date:    Sun, 20 May 2001 15:34:57 -0700
From:    Emily Hanson <emilymhanson@y.......>
Subject: Re: To post or not to post

I wait until the entire story is written.  I've been known to start
stories and then set them aside because of writer's block, though.

--- m chamberlain <mc> ham_thorne@h.......> wrote:

> Do people prefer me to post what I already have, and then post the
rest as I write it?  Or is it better to wait until I've got the whole
story & then post the lot?

=====
Emily Hanson
Main website - http://www.starbase-eprime.com
Web Graphics - http://www.galaxyofimages.com
ICQ# 73113057

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Date:    Sun, 20 May 2001 15:39:20 -0700
From:    Emily Hanson <emilymhanson@y.......>
Subject: Re: comments, critiques, and disclamers

Great!  What's your story called?  Is it in the vampire genre?

I got brave and sent a few poems to a magazine (Fables).  The editor
decided he didn't want the ones I sent, but went to my web site
(where I have a poetry page) and selected two other ones to be
published this fall.  Then he suggested I send my other poems to a
different magazine that I've never heard of, probably because it's
based in New Mexico and I'm in Minnesota.  I had done a web search on
poetry magazines and found the first one that way.  I'm crossing my
fingers on the other poems.

Emily


--- Lady Ariake <lady_ariake@y.......> wrote:
>
> I sold my first story this past winter (though I have
> a lovely collection of poetry rejection slips if
> anyone would like to see ;)  and while the editor was
> a wonderful lady and even forgave that rookiee me
> forgot to put a word count on it and trusted me to
> give her one over the phone, she asked me to tweak it
> a bit in places.  Her critiques were very valid and I
> appreciated them, just as I appreciate the reasons
> given in the rejection slips (except the form letter.
> That's just a form letter and I like to laugh at it.)
> I did make the changes she asked for and they made the
> story clearer--also, they gave me something to think
> about for the next one.  College workshops were useful
> that way, too, though sometimes they didn't quite
> "get" what I was writing--I write dark fantasy, they
> wrote more...literary...works.  You know what I mean.
> ;) But they were generally polite about their
> critiques, and that's about the only thing that will
> make me dismiss a criticism out of hand--if it's an
> outright flame.  I love when people comment on my
> stories, especially compliments of course, but I'll
> take any well-thought-out remarks offered, even
> largely negative.  At least it shows they read it and
> thought about it, even if they didn't like it. And I
> can always think about what they said when I'm writing
> my next story.
>
> Jennifer
>
> =====
> "If you're going to have delusions of grandeur, go for the really
> satisfying ones."  (Marcus Cole, Anla'shok, or my life motto.)
>
> Gold Anareth, firelizards brown Dral and bronze Tamet.  (See what I
> mean?)

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Date:    Sun, 20 May 2001 15:45:59 -0700
From:    Emily Hanson <emilymhanson@y.......>
Subject: Re: comments, critiques, and disclamers

Sorry!  I thought I had sent this personally instead.  I even hit the
stop button on my web browser as I realized the default address was
forkni-l and  I didn't get the message that said it was sent.  Stupid
computer.

Emily

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Date:    Sun, 20 May 2001 23:47:01 -0400
From:    Lisa Hobbs <lhobbs29@i.......>
Subject: Re: Near Death Apparatice

I bought it at the 1996 Toronto Trek Forever Knight Mini Con


Lisa Hobbs
----- Original Message -----
From: <Susankenn@a.......>
To: <FORKNI-L@l.......>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Near Death Apparatice


> I believe it was sold at auction. I remember hearing about it. I have no idea
> who or when.,
>
>
> sue
> susankenn@a.......
> Knighie, NNpacker, UF
>

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