September 21st, 2009 / 2:47 pm
Random
Performance art & ‘everybody has a book’
above via Matt Bell
‘Everybody has a book.’
I’d like to know, by a show of hands, who here as a longer manuscript(s) (novella-to-novel length) either in submission or on your computer.
Tags: book, performance art, poll
Two completed novels. One on submission, one in the Drawer.
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Where is that newspaper clipping from? I love looking up stuff like this on Ebsco. Newspapers from the late 19th and early 20th century seem like they were actually worth reading. And yeah, I’ve got a book that is about to go into the world and fight for its life. Don’t we all?
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September 22nd, 2009 / 1:59 amMatt Bell—
Catherine, I found the clipping on The Hope Chest, one of my favorite blogs. You’ll love it: http://mrparallel.wordpress.com/
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neither
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I have several 1/2 to 3/4 abandoned aforementioned somewhere on my computer.
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I have a finished novel on my computer… some excerpts are published…
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September 21st, 2009 / 3:53 pmdarby—
one novel
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does a thesis count?
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and also: this sailor made a punk of GG Allin
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Several manuscripts and another on the way. One was in submissions, but I can’t be bothered right now, with MFA school and all.
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Two novellas (~130 pages) in the drawer. One novel (544 pages) about to make the rounds.
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No :(
I’ve got more than a collection’s wroth of stories, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable publishing it all. Maybe 50% of it.
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I’ve got two: one memoir of my life-changing trip to Italy, and one bildungsroman about a pregnant 15-year-old named Amy and her sensitive boyfriend Ben.
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September 21st, 2009 / 10:38 pmDan Wickett—
Sorry, but this was fucking hilarious, all the way down to the pseudo-link.
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Guilty.
3 completed novels, 2 of which are in submission. 1 novella in submission.
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3 in submission,
had more before i lost most of my shit to a dead hard drive
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One yellow footlocker of scrawled acid-trip pages (about a thousand) partially stuck together by kitten urine. I thought it was a novel when I was living in and out (during planned metabolic “washout” periods) of Medical Technical Research Incorporated of Jamaica Plain earning About $60 a day plus room and board for being a human guinea pig, taking experimental levels of theopheline etc. and then getting pricked until my veins collapsed. It’s a disaster as a novel so I decided to make a 55 to 65 page prose poem that sort of tells a version of the story I was trying to get across. It should make me even less popular as a poet.
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September 21st, 2009 / 11:42 pmKen Baumann—
Matt, can you email me?
ken@kenbaumann.com
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September 23rd, 2009 / 8:52 amMatt Jasper—
Yes. The other Matt Jasper emailed you but the real Matt Jasper is here:
mattjasper555@hotmail.com
Pretty much anyone reading this can email me and claim that I promised to mail them a free copy of my book and I’ll send it.
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I do.
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I do, too.
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two manuscripts shelved, one in the world.
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Yeah, chalk me up for a novel in submission. Sadly, being an “indie lit mag editor” doesn’t make the process go any faster.
Also, I seem to have picked the worst time in recent history to finish a novel. Sometimes I suck at life.
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Got a few. Somehow–though for completely different reasons–both manuscripts that will be published soon (one poetry, one novel), were completed roughly three years ago. Is that how long it takes? Does that mean I should just stop even trying to place the books I’ve written in the last couple years, or does it mean that it takes a long ass time for those placement efforts to pay off?
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One novel in submission (remission?), accumulating polite passes; one skinny novel draft, very drafty; two novellas in wild states.
Nobody has said “in-progress.” That phrase is poison, yeah?
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putting my hand in the air twice
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two, plus half of one I’m working on
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novella coming out,
poetry manuscript doing the rounds,
poetry manuscript that may take two years for it to not suck.
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One novel, now in drawer after a record fourteen rejections.
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One novella, gathering dust and irrelevance
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two novels, one being pared down to a short story as of this week, one in need of much revision.
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I’ve got a “finished” novel in the drawer (three drafts), but that’s not something I’m working on or something I’m planning on sending out. I’m 30,000 words into a new novel and halfway through a new novella, switching back and forth between the two.
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Two.
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aye captain, at least unfinished. More than I can count on one hand. And yes, a few by an alter ego.
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I just threw away 20,000 words of a novel and it felt great! Immediately afterward I put together a 25K word short story collection. And that felt great too!
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all of the above.
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September 22nd, 2009 / 4:14 pmTim Horvath—
Got a novel of over 100K, much of which has been revised. The ending rots, though, rots in a sort of contagion that spreads, not only through the rest of the book but causes nearby milk to spoil, cellphones to drop calls, the innocent to become corrupt and then corrupt others in turn, causes a gurgle in perfectly still water.
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