Posts Tagged ‘MFA’
A Goodbye
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It was a rainy day when we first arrived in Gainesville, only that’s an understatement, as “rainy” is always an understatement for August in Florida–just miles before we crossed the state line from Georgia into Gainesville the air seemed to shift, becoming heady, humid, and then it started falling in silver sheets. August 7th, 2007. [...]
Tags: gainesville, MFA, moving, photos
Authorial Talent Crushes
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This week’s Road Trip Wednesday over at YA Highway asks: What author’s career would you love to emulate? There’s no one author I’d model my career on; I think each writer’s life is different and varied enough that it’s pretty impossible to find others who are in exactly the same boat as you. That being [...]
Tags: dabbling, MFA, writers, writing, ya, yahighway
Why Not Moments
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Amazing video blog from YA Rebel Victoria Schwab on risk taking: I have to say, one of the ways I think that an MFA was not helpful for me was that it made me more afraid to take risks in my poetry. I have a very loud, very vocal internal editor already. In my very [...]
Tags: MFA, poetry, video, writing, ya
It’s Not Like I Totally Hate Poetry
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In fact, the poems of James Davis and Jessica Hammack (would link, but they’re, like, sitting in my kitchen instead of on the internet) are making me incredibly happy right now. In related news, Jordan’s been playing Europa Universalis III all day today. He named his army The First MFA Army, so that he could [...]
Writing about Writing
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I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on editing for awhile, but I’ve been busy . . . editing! Who would have thunk it? I’ve said before that editing is hard work. That’s true. But I don’t think the phrase “hard work” really even begins to encompass the sort of hard work it really [...]
Tags: beta readers, editing, manifesto, MFA, stone sorter, writing
On Honest Reviewing
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I’ve been spending a lot of time on Goodreads lately, more time than I spend on any other social network. I’ve been reading and writing reviews, making surprisingly connections. Though I’ve been on there for quite awhile now (two years? Yes, two years in March), finding community there seemed to start with my review of [...]
Tags: goodreads, MFA, publishing, review
If I Want to Help You With Your Writing, I’ll Probably Offer
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It’s not quite as jazzy a title as “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script”, is it? But it’s the truth. I’ve been thinking quite a bit about what I, as a writer, owe other writers. I started to consider the question when the whole MFA consulting kerfuffle began, but John Olson’s Village Voice post–and [...]
Tags: editing, MFA, publication, writing
An Offer to the MFAs of the Future
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The MFA consulting debate is, unfortunately, still raging. In light of the fact that I’ve gotten a surprising number of hits for “Seth Abramson” over the past week and a half, I want to just put this out there for any MFA applicants who might stumble across my blog: feel free to e-mail me about [...]
The question is, do I HAVE an MFA twat, or AM I an MFA twat?
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This anonymous comment on my post on the MFA consulting controversy was too good to let it get “instantly swallowed up by the oblivion that awaits all nasty mediocrities”, so to speak: That’s ok Justin–we can you halfwit MFA twat whose every word is instantly swallowed up by the oblivion that awaits all nasty mediocrities. [...]
MFAs to Come: Chill Out
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There’s been a debate raging, as much as poets can rage, on the poety blog-o-sphere. To quickly summarize: Seth Abramson and a few Iowa cohorts have started a consulting service for potential MFAs which charges hundreds of dollars for portfolio reviews, which guarantee nothing, of course, because the process is subjective, terribly subjective, but not [...]
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