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Mon | October 16, 2006

les magazines

The advice I received over a year ago, last last summer, was to go to the bookstore, read all the literary magazines, repeat, until I knew what they were all about, and then and only then, send submissions. However it has been a year and I have not done that, I figure I never will, even though I keep telling myself to. Falling short of that, I have been hoping to meet someone who knows one magazine from another, who could give me a clue or two. But I don't think that'll happen either. So I just submitted a story, "The Fish," to this magazine Juked. I don't know if it's the best magazine I could get published in, but it seems to "fit" more or less. Maybe if they reject me I will send it somewhere else. But I don't think so. I don't know of any other magazines. I don't read them, any of them. I said this already but I'm thinking about it again. I don't think there's any way to get me to read them, and definitely not all of them at once, and I think the advice given me was bad. Impractical. I think I'll probably only read magazines if I'm published in them, a bit of a catch 22 since I am not allowed to be published in them until I've read them. But if I forget about that part of the deal, there is a way into this loop.

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