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Wednesday, 09 December 2009

  • 2 Days Until the End


    Two more days of classes! Then it'll all be over with like 2012! Ok, maybe not over to that extreme with volcanoes, earthquakes, foods and all; I'll still have finals left: a couple of final papers and a couple of tests.

    Over Christmas break I'm hoping to get a lot of writing done on a "new" project. I wrote some test pages for it a while ago and I've been constructing the story in my head ever since. So, I probably won't be on the internet (or xanga) terribly often until after break in 2010. If I do stop by I'll be sure to say "hi" to everyone.

    Until then, wish me luck

    &

    Write on, Friends.

Wednesday, 02 December 2009

  • SUBMIT YOUR STORY/Poem/Photography

    A magazine I am an editor for is looking for short stories (and poems) for our upcoming volume.  We WANT MORE SUBMISSIONS!!!!! If you're interested, then read on. Thanks!

    Guidelines:

    Writers and artists, you are invited to submit your original, previously unpublished works for possible publication in the Vermillion Literary Project's annual literary magazine. We welcome short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction (essays), and black-and-white drawings or photographs, with preference given to works with a South Dakota or Midwestern connection. Note that the only form of payment is a copy of the magazine in which the published work appears.

    Mail submissions to The Vermillion Literary Project, Dakota Hall 212, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069-2390. (Or drop them off in Dakota 212, English Department, University of South Dakota). Or e-mail them as .rtf (rich text format) attachments to projlit@usd.edu. All text submissions should be typed; prose should be double-spaced. Manuscripts and artwork are submitted at the author's or artist's own risk and will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed, postage-paid return envelope. Deadline for submissions (in order to be considered for the issue published the following spring): December 15.

    IMPORTANT: Because we use a blind submission process, with the editorial staff not knowing who submitted work, we prefer that you include your name and contact information on a separate page, and nowhere on the submissions themselves.

    For those who provide e-mail addresses and/or self-addressed, postage-paid envelopes, we will inform writers about the status of their submissions in March/April.

     



Thursday, 19 November 2009

  • Mine Bookshelf/His Bookshelf


    I went to writer friend of mine's house. He's got shelves full of books. Perhaps as many books as I have. Now, I used to work at a used bookstore and recognized about 80% or, as far as I could tell, maybe all of the books. I'd pick these books up for a good shelf-dusting, but never to actually read the contents therein . Mysteries, bestsellers and the common, household, commercialized fantasies lined the shelves of this friend's house. I know now what type of book he'll be writing. The competition to get published will be hard for him, but the if he gets big, he'll be rolling in the dough. 

    I admit, I'm not much for the classics myself. But, after visiting his place and realizing what I read compared to everyone else, I feel like some sort of highbrow, elitist, post-postmodern hermit on my solitary island of deep and significant art. There's a reason I pitch myself as a literary writer, not a pop-genre writer.

    I'm not going to list what I read/don't read. I don't like to offend nor endorse. I just feel that there's books and there's books and one isn't better than the other. But, one is different than the other and what I read and write isn't what the average person reads or the average writer writes. And I have just enough of a highbrow ego that I'm happy with this fact.

    Write on.

    R.E. Greene

Monday, 16 November 2009


  • I've found out I've been accepted as a reader for the Arts & Sciences Celebration of the Arts coming up in February 2010. I'm excited but I don't know what I'll be reading yet~! I may read some of my poetry or I may read a short story I've written. I haven't gotten any time limit or content details yet, so I've got some time to make up my mind.

    Write on.

    R.E. Greene

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

  • From the Elevator to the Writing Desk


    So, I’m riding the elevator from the ground floor up to my third floor classroom when suddenly a poem hits me. It hits me right in the brain with a punch that almost knocks me over. Luckily the elevator is too small to actually fall down in effectively. Hyperbolized statements aside, I get into class and whip out a blank notebook that I’ve been saving for a rainy day and start composing. It’s a fifty minute German class and I scribble out this poem from the first minute to the last. I manage to keep pace with the classroom questions and translations since I did them ahead of time, even answering without missing a beat when the professor calls on me. By the end of class I have nearly four pages written.

    Class is over, and then I’m running home and make the fifteen minute walk back to my apartment in ten. I rip open my green and black backpack and pull out my purple notebook, a pen and keep composing. Finally I finish writing, but I know the poem isn’t over yet. No, not for a while yet.

    Since then I’ve written two more parts to my poem and I’m up to about seven pages. I’ve been keeping a list of poems that are related thematically under a potential book title. The list is thumb-tacked to the wall beside my desk. I decided that this long poem is going to be the title poem for the collection.  Now, I’ll just have to keep adding other poems to the collection, keep composing the Title Poem, and try sending them all to the appropriate poetry publishing reviews, literary journals, and magazines. Patience is the name of the game with this creative work. My hope is, if I write it right, I’ll make a book of it someday.

     

    Write on.

    R.E. Greene

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