Before I get to gabbing about my wanderings in regards to poetry and publishing, let me cut to the chase. I have had some poems published over at eMuse , so go check out the latest issue.
Okay you read at least my stuff right? Well read the other stuff too, and go look at back issues, it is a good magazine. I will admit I am excited that I had some poems accepted and sad to learn that this issue is the last. I’ll admit I have read all the past issues and found eMuse entertaining and a very good magazine and that was why I had sent them some poetry in the hopes I would get published there.
Also, this is a first for me in my wandering publishing career. I have had poetry published in the small print press over the years and I even had a small chapbook of poems published by Wordsmith Publishing way back in the early nineties. This is the first time I have ever had anything published electronically, my first e-zine publishing credit. That’s pretty exciting for me.
So much has changed over the years it is hard to believe it. For so long I use to hand write notes, then break out the old electronic typewriter and do a finish copy. Then stuff all of that with a cover letter into an envelope, stamp it, and snail mail it away. I have done a lot of that over the years and it can be a painfully slow process. Sometimes I would get poetry accepted, sometimes a rejection letter, sometimes just nothing. The stories have never even gotten published.
Now I have gone digital and broke through to the other side. Is this a first? Oh yeah. The last you may ask? No way man, I am in it for the long haul and not stopping or slowing down ever again. I am going to keep writing poetry because I like to do that.
I am also going to really start pushing the short stories, get ‘em polished and send ‘em on their merry way. Will I get rejection letters? Oh yeah. Will it stop me this time? No! I figure I have finally gotten a tough enough skin and the right attitude that I am just going to keep trying and go for it. It has taken me many years to get this far, a lot of half -measures and maybes and I’ll get around to it. Honestly? A helluva a lot of self-doubt and writers block as well.
This past spring I banished the mighty demon known to so many as writers block. Oh it still lurks in the corner, whispering all those nasty things that keep people from just doing it. I have stopped listening and caring about all that. So today was an affirmation that I can still keep doing, still keep up the good fight. I’ll add that fuel to the fire and keep on going.
I’ll be blogging about all kinds of stuff and in the background writing those stories, those poems and sending them out. Once in awhile I’ll do the happy dance and the demon will cower. Stick around as I wander along.
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