October 19th, 2009 / 10:55 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Blake Butler—
Would you submit your ‘work’ to joesdickshed.blogspot.com? Under what criteria would this be a lucrative ‘market’ for your work?
I do not like that dick shed.
we’re currently open to fiction, nonfiction, poetry.
we’re currently open to fiction, nonfiction, poetry.
that happened faster than i thought it would
that happened faster than i thought it would
for me it all depends on whether it’s joe’s dick’s hed [sic] or joe’s dick shed.
for me it all depends on whether it’s joe’s dick’s hed [sic] or joe’s dick shed.
if joe was my friend i would submit, because it would be lucrative for our relationship.
if joe was my friend i would submit, because it would be lucrative for our relationship.
I want dick shots of lit scenesters.
I want dick shots of lit scenesters.
is there an email address to submit work to? i’ll send something.
is there an email address to submit work to? i’ll send something.
They’ve never accepted a single work, making them the single most exclusive market ever.
They’ve never accepted a single work, making them the single most exclusive market ever.
would it
that’s hot
would it
that’s hot
it would
it would
Is Joe’s dick circumcised? If so, did a doctor or a mohel perform the procedure?
Is Joe’s dick circumcised? If so, did a doctor or a mohel perform the procedure?
joesdickshed@gmail.com
joesdickshed@gmail.com
If it’s a pretty dick head, not too bulbous, then yes. Looks matter.
If it’s a pretty dick head, not too bulbous, then yes. Looks matter.
For real though, I am wary of really hideous websites and venues that have .wordpress or .blogspot in the url. Nothing wrong with using blogger or wordpress.com, but a url costs $10 a year. Anyone running a mag from the USA could forgo a happy meal or two and plunk down for one. I dunno. Too elitist?
For real though, I am wary of really hideous websites and venues that have .wordpress or .blogspot in the url. Nothing wrong with using blogger or wordpress.com, but a url costs $10 a year. Anyone running a mag from the USA could forgo a happy meal or two and plunk down for one. I dunno. Too elitist?
Having a modicum of standards is not elitist, no.
Having a modicum of standards is not elitist, no.
i still have to write something for joe’s upcoming skateboarding-themed issue
i still have to write something for joe’s upcoming skateboarding-themed issue
thank god for standards
thank god for standards
But part of me says that having a crappy domain name doesn’t completely preclude the possibility of great writing. It just sort of…cheapens the experience a little bit.
But part of me says that having a crappy domain name doesn’t completely preclude the possibility of great writing. It just sort of…cheapens the experience a little bit.
there’s still time to send to the skateboard issue
there’s still time to send to the skateboard issue
does that come off as sarcastic? I’m being sincere when I say that. The only benefit I can think of is for friendship, which is valuable. In terms of its place in the market, you’d be better off posting it at fictionaut, you’d get more reads, more comments, also more friends.
i don’t think in terms of lucrative markets. Like what is going to get me more money/attention as an author? I think that’s a sad way of looking at the whole game. I try to get into the markets that I read and love, but if I don’t get in them, I sort of have this leftover work I’m not sure what to do with. I don’t spend a lot of time researching markets I don’t read. I’ll send stuff to whoever asks, including my friend joe.
what is your opinion about all this? would you send to joe? under what circumstance would you?
does that come off as sarcastic? I’m being sincere when I say that. The only benefit I can think of is for friendship, which is valuable. In terms of its place in the market, you’d be better off posting it at fictionaut, you’d get more reads, more comments, also more friends.
i don’t think in terms of lucrative markets. Like what is going to get me more money/attention as an author? I think that’s a sad way of looking at the whole game. I try to get into the markets that I read and love, but if I don’t get in them, I sort of have this leftover work I’m not sure what to do with. I don’t spend a lot of time researching markets I don’t read. I’ll send stuff to whoever asks, including my friend joe.
what is your opinion about all this? would you send to joe? under what circumstance would you?
Seconded.
Seconded.
i already sent to joe.
i sent joe the ‘dumbest’ stories i’d ever written. i feel that under certain circumstances they could be considered ‘avant-garde.’ they’re that dumb.
i don’t think you’d get more reads on fictionaut than you would on a well-respected literary journal. on fictionaut you know how many reads you get and it usually isn’t very many. although, i dunno, maybe i’m just not a ‘cool kid.’
i have a lot of friends outside of the internet and i don’t really care to have any more. i moved away from an entire city, in fact, because i knew too many people there and couldn’t get anything done.
pretty sure blake was being sarcastic about ‘lucrative markets.’ but maybe you are being sarcastic about yours and his levels of sarcasm? i srsly don’t even know anymore.
do we need the irony mark? would that be ironic?
i already sent to joe.
i sent joe the ‘dumbest’ stories i’d ever written. i feel that under certain circumstances they could be considered ‘avant-garde.’ they’re that dumb.
i don’t think you’d get more reads on fictionaut than you would on a well-respected literary journal. on fictionaut you know how many reads you get and it usually isn’t very many. although, i dunno, maybe i’m just not a ‘cool kid.’
i have a lot of friends outside of the internet and i don’t really care to have any more. i moved away from an entire city, in fact, because i knew too many people there and couldn’t get anything done.
pretty sure blake was being sarcastic about ‘lucrative markets.’ but maybe you are being sarcastic about yours and his levels of sarcasm? i srsly don’t even know anymore.
do we need the irony mark? would that be ironic?
i sent joe a piece I think is good. i like the idea of a journal starting spontaneously like this. I hope it is real.
i didn’t take blake’s ‘lucrative markets’ as sarcasm. I took it as sincere. Though I don’t know blake so maybe there is a sarcasm i don’t recognize about his words. but everyone else commented with kind of funny ha-ha remarks so maybe I’m taking it too seriously and I should have just commented like that. oh man.
i sent joe a piece I think is good. i like the idea of a journal starting spontaneously like this. I hope it is real.
i didn’t take blake’s ‘lucrative markets’ as sarcasm. I took it as sincere. Though I don’t know blake so maybe there is a sarcasm i don’t recognize about his words. but everyone else commented with kind of funny ha-ha remarks so maybe I’m taking it too seriously and I should have just commented like that. oh man.
I absolutely agree Ben. In this day and age there is no excuse for not buying a domain name, and finding a web provider. It is so inexpensive. With all the content management systems available, there’s just no excuse for sadlittlemagazine.wordpress.com and if you don’t know how to get a magazine up and running, e-mail the editors of a magazine you like. Nine times ouf of ten they will help. Also, in my experience, the quality of the magazine is often exactly what you would expect from sadlittlemagazine.wordpress.com. Only one exception comes to mind and that’s DOGZPLOT which does amazing work using blogspot very effectively.
I absolutely agree Ben. In this day and age there is no excuse for not buying a domain name, and finding a web provider. It is so inexpensive. With all the content management systems available, there’s just no excuse for sadlittlemagazine.wordpress.com and if you don’t know how to get a magazine up and running, e-mail the editors of a magazine you like. Nine times ouf of ten they will help. Also, in my experience, the quality of the magazine is often exactly what you would expect from sadlittlemagazine.wordpress.com. Only one exception comes to mind and that’s DOGZPLOT which does amazing work using blogspot very effectively.
No, but I would submit my work to blakesalittlebitch.com. As a matter of fact, I have a story I should submit. It’s about a nine year old malignant narcissist. I’m a big fan of the neuro-novel. Marco Roth made some good points, though. Never read anything by Roth before. Reminds me of a sober Mark Ames.
No, but I would submit my work to blakesalittlebitch.com. As a matter of fact, I have a story I should submit. It’s about a nine year old malignant narcissist. I’m a big fan of the neuro-novel. Marco Roth made some good points, though. Never read anything by Roth before. Reminds me of a sober Mark Ames.
i guess it all hinges on joe and his (or her) level of disenchantment.
i guess it all hinges on joe and his (or her) level of disenchantment.
What if you have written something that you know is imperfect but know/think you are incapable of perfecting at this point? This is sort of contingent upon a theoretical “writer meter” that you gradually add to, over the course of writing and reading. Is it okay, though, to submit to places that seem to be “at your level” if you don’t think you are at 100% capacity? Or should you never put a word out until you think Tin House will take it? Is it somehow derisive to assume that there are places which cater to writers who aren’t at 100% capacity? Did you ever submit to the literary magazine at your high school? Why or why not?
What if you have written something that you know is imperfect but know/think you are incapable of perfecting at this point? This is sort of contingent upon a theoretical “writer meter” that you gradually add to, over the course of writing and reading. Is it okay, though, to submit to places that seem to be “at your level” if you don’t think you are at 100% capacity? Or should you never put a word out until you think Tin House will take it? Is it somehow derisive to assume that there are places which cater to writers who aren’t at 100% capacity? Did you ever submit to the literary magazine at your high school? Why or why not?
conversations like this are so mundane and ridiculous. if you wanna send your writing to dick head shed or whatever then do it, if you don’t you don’t. talking about it and discussing it is the true waste of time.
conversations like this are so mundane and ridiculous. if you wanna send your writing to dick head shed or whatever then do it, if you don’t you don’t. talking about it and discussing it is the true waste of time.
but maybe it’s not a waste of time
but maybe it’s not a waste of time
I think there is an attitude of a lot of posters on here (not saying you are included necessarily) that all that matters is getting your writing out there no matter what the context. I don’t think I agree. I think it is important to get your work out in places you respect, that are designed well and edited carefully, etc. If you put out a collection of your own fiction, you wouldn’t just slap it together with no care, right? So why not hold journals to similar standards?
I think there is an attitude of a lot of posters on here (not saying you are included necessarily) that all that matters is getting your writing out there no matter what the context. I don’t think I agree. I think it is important to get your work out in places you respect, that are designed well and edited carefully, etc. If you put out a collection of your own fiction, you wouldn’t just slap it together with no care, right? So why not hold journals to similar standards?
Glad you all posted this up. I’m a bit slow when it comes to internet design but I went out and bought the URL for my blog so now it won’t be http://www.whatdoesnotkillme.wordpress.com, it will now drop the wordpress part, and just be http://www.whatdoesnotkillme.com so thanks. I guess it was easier than I’d thought to do, so I just spent the $15 and it should be working in the next 24-72 hours. Thanks for the push. It’s just a blog, but it will look much better now, and will be easier to type in, easier to add to promotional materials, etc. Thanks.
Glad you all posted this up. I’m a bit slow when it comes to internet design but I went out and bought the URL for my blog so now it won’t be http://www.whatdoesnotkillme.wordpress.com, it will now drop the wordpress part, and just be http://www.whatdoesnotkillme.com so thanks. I guess it was easier than I’d thought to do, so I just spent the $15 and it should be working in the next 24-72 hours. Thanks for the push. It’s just a blog, but it will look much better now, and will be easier to type in, easier to add to promotional materials, etc. Thanks.
“bulbous.” wonderful word. gonna say it out loud a few times.
“bulbous.” wonderful word. gonna say it out loud a few times.
I love the look and the sound of the word. Also, I enjoy it when I see it. Ha. Ha.
I love the look and the sound of the word. Also, I enjoy it when I see it. Ha. Ha.
I sometimes think that there’s some sort of ‘punk ethic’ at work behind sites/magazines that just either whack up the most basic of Blogspot templates or, even worse, whack up the most basic of Blogspot templates but change the background colour to hot pink and the text to bright yellow, with emerald green links.
And then I try to think of a delicate way that I can tell such people: no, that’s not a punk ethic. That’s just shit.
Not to mention that it makes your words – which you’ve no doubt slaved over in anything but a slapdash ‘punk ethic’ way – utterly unreadable.
I sometimes think that there’s some sort of ‘punk ethic’ at work behind sites/magazines that just either whack up the most basic of Blogspot templates or, even worse, whack up the most basic of Blogspot templates but change the background colour to hot pink and the text to bright yellow, with emerald green links.
And then I try to think of a delicate way that I can tell such people: no, that’s not a punk ethic. That’s just shit.
Not to mention that it makes your words – which you’ve no doubt slaved over in anything but a slapdash ‘punk ethic’ way – utterly unreadable.
I think its pretty funny that some people would consider the use of a template punk.
Richard, so many people think its harder than it is. I’m working on this problem. Stay tuned!
I think its pretty funny that some people would consider the use of a template punk.
Richard, so many people think its harder than it is. I’m working on this problem. Stay tuned!
I think the irony mark is needed! It would be informative & funny!! Ironic?? Ironic!! I think html giant should be the first to use the irony mark. Let’s make it a new staple of the language !!*!!%#%!!!?!
I think the irony mark is needed! It would be informative & funny!! Ironic?? Ironic!! I think html giant should be the first to use the irony mark. Let’s make it a new staple of the language !!*!!%#%!!!?!
@reynard – Heads up! My comment didn’t post underneath yours like I wanted it to. I couldn’t “reply” after your comment. (?????) The “editor” in me is feeling really queasy right now. Dang it!
@reynard – Heads up! My comment didn’t post underneath yours like I wanted it to. I couldn’t “reply” after your comment. (?????) The “editor” in me is feeling really queasy right now. Dang it!
i only mean it in the sense that people are gonna submit there whether the conversation happens or not, so why not discuss something that can make a difference. that’s all.
i only mean it in the sense that people are gonna submit there whether the conversation happens or not, so why not discuss something that can make a difference. that’s all.
well, for one, the journal didn’t exist before this thread. and now it exists. so there’s that.
also, i think its important to think about why people send work anywhere.
well, for one, the journal didn’t exist before this thread. and now it exists. so there’s that.
also, i think its important to think about why people send work anywhere.
Yeah, DOGZPLOT is an exception. And at least they ALSO have a domain name. The Bspot is the flash offshoot, which makes sense in a lot of ways. It could be folded more effectively in the main site, but it is admittedly trickier to host it yourself or to mirror it as a subdomain than to just use blogger.
And as for design: given the sheer number of decent templates (either to use straight up or to customize), there is no excuse for shitty mid-90’s design. It’s unreadable. Not everyone is savvy–fine. Not everyone is designer–also fine. But you don’t have to be anymore, you just have to be perceptive enough to realize when your site is ass-ugly. Besides, CMSs like WordPress as the backend for magazines (especially ones that put out issues frequently) just make sense. People would save a lot of time if they stopped coding everything by hand. By hand is fine, obviously, especially if it’s a great product. Blue Print Review is cute that way. But if it’s ugly and time-consuming…I mean. Come. on.
Yeah, DOGZPLOT is an exception. And at least they ALSO have a domain name. The Bspot is the flash offshoot, which makes sense in a lot of ways. It could be folded more effectively in the main site, but it is admittedly trickier to host it yourself or to mirror it as a subdomain than to just use blogger.
And as for design: given the sheer number of decent templates (either to use straight up or to customize), there is no excuse for shitty mid-90’s design. It’s unreadable. Not everyone is savvy–fine. Not everyone is designer–also fine. But you don’t have to be anymore, you just have to be perceptive enough to realize when your site is ass-ugly. Besides, CMSs like WordPress as the backend for magazines (especially ones that put out issues frequently) just make sense. People would save a lot of time if they stopped coding everything by hand. By hand is fine, obviously, especially if it’s a great product. Blue Print Review is cute that way. But if it’s ugly and time-consuming…I mean. Come. on.
Awesome. It really is an outdated but pervasive fear that only kids younger than 12 and professionals can do this stuff. Anyone can. It’s doable. If you ever need help with WordPress or anything, follow the comment link and send me an email.
Awesome. It really is an outdated but pervasive fear that only kids younger than 12 and professionals can do this stuff. Anyone can. It’s doable. If you ever need help with WordPress or anything, follow the comment link and send me an email.
Edgy + bad does not equal awesome. But people always hate proofs.
Edgy + bad does not equal awesome. But people always hate proofs.