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Fingers crossed, Azur. As TAPS commented, you make me feel guilty at the tremendous amount of work you do.
posted by
johnmacnab
on September 8, 2006 at 6:30 AM
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This was a very inspiring post.
posted by
babe_rocks
on September 8, 2006 at 6:09 AM
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it must be cool to earn a living as a writer.
no matter how little the pay. I know what you mean about the club thing. I keep putting work out there. Nothing like you, mine is all fiction. I managed to get published for the first time in may but not paid for it. So i realise how hard it is. Perhaps even more so for you as you have to back up all your writing with facts where as mine can be as fantastic as i like and no one minds. Good luck with your stuff.
posted by
shadow134
on September 8, 2006 at 3:16 AM
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JohnMcNab
I've decided not to wait to be chosen. I am writing the article this minute and will send it out to a couple of publications and just see what happens.
I already had one rejection for it today. That was from a journal which has run my work before but where I am currently having a bad run in interesting them in ideas. It happens. Well she rejected it but she did siuggest somewhere else
posted by
Azur
on September 7, 2006 at 6:52 PM
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Blanche, clearly I mean the latter
if that ever happened I would post about it
posted by
Azur
on September 7, 2006 at 6:49 PM
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Aren't light bulb moments illuminating, Azur. When I get one, I start circling the idea to find out why it hasn't been done before. Good luck from left field.
posted by
johnmacnab
on September 7, 2006 at 6:25 PM
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What, Azur, you mean, that if you got an article accepted by the New Yorker
you wouldn't post about it here? Or that it won't happen?
posted by
Blanche.
on September 7, 2006 at 6:21 PM
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blanche, that post won't be written
but it's fun to play with these ideas,
posted by
Azur
on September 7, 2006 at 6:19 PM
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Azur, if you don't try, you won't know, I hope there's good news in your
inbox soon. I can't wait to read THAT post!
posted by
Blanche.
on September 7, 2006 at 6:09 PM
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Who knows you just might get a hit!
Good luck!
posted by
Whacky
on September 7, 2006 at 3:09 PM
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Sometimes, going off on a tangent hits the jackpot. Good luck.
(A)
posted by
A-and-B
on September 7, 2006 at 2:43 PM
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Bit daft really, but I came back already to see if there was more news
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on September 7, 2006 at 12:22 PM
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Azur,
I do hope you'll make it into the
New Yorker! Here's an idea for an 'in'...find a not yet published bit on Dorothy Parker's life...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 7, 2006 at 10:58 AM
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Azur, you always make me feel like I am a lazy no good son of a gun. Then I look back and remember what I retired from and I smile and crawl back in bed for a nap. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on September 7, 2006 at 10:16 AM
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Wiley, in some ways I have already but I like it so much
I want more. Good news for you about the contact from the newspaper
posted by
Azur
on September 7, 2006 at 8:06 AM
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Pat_B
In my dreams.
After I sent it I cursed myself for sending such a ridiculous idea. But stranger things have happened.
posted by
Azur
on September 7, 2006 at 8:05 AM
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Azur
I just know you will hit it big one of these days luv. Oh, and I think I hit it big today with a columnist with the Sun in Toronto, she has just e-mailed me back. Thanks for all your help my friend.
posted by
WileyJohn
on September 7, 2006 at 7:53 AM
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Good luck...
Let us know when your stuff is published -- it will up the New Yorker's circulation by at least one for that edition... :)
posted by
Pat_B
on September 7, 2006 at 7:21 AM
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posted by
Rosetree
on September 7, 2006 at 7:01 AM
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I love your enthusiasm....You always aim high...I really admire you...
posted by
_Symphony_
on September 7, 2006 at 5:08 AM
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Azur
Your work sounds painfully uncertain at times.
posted by
avant-garde
on September 7, 2006 at 3:42 AM
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Now that would be something, The New Yorker. Nothing wrong with aiming
high. Right table, right person, right time - you never know. Bonne chance.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on September 7, 2006 at 12:53 AM
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well you lose even more if you don't try, you'll never know the what if, so
I guess you keep plodding, something will work out, I always say, there is a solution even though I cannot see it yet, it does exist. Persevere, I live from day to day too, you don't need my advice, just encouragement right, wish I could do more. Once you establish a good relationship with a mag, it must help well I don't know much so I won't say anymore.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 7, 2006 at 12:15 AM
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it doesn't matter what your livelihood is , if it's self-employment, the
reality is the work will be long and hard and maybe, just maybe, you'll hit the jackpot. that's why it's so important to love what you do because
that's the real jackpot.
posted by
fourcats
on September 6, 2006 at 11:58 PM
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Good luck
and good fortune. Your hard work will pay off.
posted by
Tanga
on September 6, 2006 at 11:46 PM
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