Comments on: Publication is Not Necessarily a Privilege but it Certainly Is Not a Right

By: Kent hawkins

Kent hawkins — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:05:09 +0000

I can certainly understand the writer’s frustrations. Trying to get my work published has proved a Sisyphean task. On the other hand, an experience I’ve always found humbling is re-reading my older writing, seeing how amateurish it was compared to my current writing and remembering how I felt like a misunderstood genius at the time.

By: Kent hawkins

Kent hawkins — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:05:00 +0000

By: Rejection - Among The Jumbled Heap

Rejection - Among The Jumbled Heap — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:12:36 +0000

[...] moping about this latest rejection, I read a great post on HTML Giant. The author, Roxanne Gay, is an editor at Pank magazine, and in that role, she has the pleasure [...]

By: Meg

Meg — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:08:31 +0000

So a writer is allowed to abuse an editor as much as they want because that’s normal and expected, but the editor is not permitted to respond to this abuse because that would be unprofessional? I believe that we should hold writers up to the same standard of professionalism that we hold editors to. We’re all engaging in the same process.

By: Meg

Meg — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:08:00 +0000

By: ValueValue

ValueValue — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:55:34 +0000

What exactly is contentious about the idea of “knowing people”? Social networking is not identical to nepotism. Why implicitly devalue the idea of community? Maybe because it’s a bunch of shit, but what isn’t?

By: ValueValue

ValueValue — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:55:00 +0000

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:00:54 +0000

schopenhauer says ‘he who criticizes others, works at the reformation of himself’

your post condemns an attitude in tom that you once also found in yourself and hope is now defeated

tom’s email condemned another’s work probably out of a fear that the faults in his own were worse and possibly to guard his work against their future reproduction

same habit, different objects

you say ‘there’s lots of writing out there in the world that baffles me but I don’t begrudge that writing’s right to exist’

then how do you begrudge a behavior ‘[you] have never understood’ the right to exist? what is the distance between one’s behavior and one’s work? is the work so innocuous and innocent and apart from the world as to slip the chains still binding the behavior? is writing a short story a radically different sort of action from writing an email — do we still believe the literary act an abnormality?

i don’t know, when the privilege to censure lays uneven, i get uneasy

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:00:00 +0000

schopenhauer says ‘he who criticizes others, works at the reformation of himself’

your post condemns an attitude in tom that you once also found in yourself and hope is now defeated

tom’s email condemned another’s work probably out of a fear that the faults in his own were worse and possibly to guard his work against their future reproduction

same habit, different objects

you say ‘there’s lots of writing out there in the world that baffles me but I don’t begrudge that writing’s right to exist’

i don’t know, when the privilege to censure lays uneven, i get uneasy

By: Shannon Peil

Shannon Peil — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:41:09 +0000

It means they can tell you have skill and might have something else they are interested in. They’d just get annoyed if you sent back something they had already seen and said no to.