When Editors Attack or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love My Writing

When Editors Attack or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love My Writing

"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia." -Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward." -Augusten Burroughs. Everything that I'm about to tell you is completely true, except for the parts that aren't, but there aren't any of those, so let's just get to it. Many writers, as you may or may not know, tend to suffer from a puzzling paradox of a fragile ego combined with a righteous arrogance.  We constantly battle fear & self doubt, yet we still manage to believe in ourselves & our words to the very end.  Day to day, depending on the weather, intensity of hangover, or how we feel about other people that day, we may feel rather insecure...
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13 Women of Literature & Poetry

13 Women of Literature & Poetry

1.  Sappho - c. 625 B.C.E. - Greece Sappho was a lyric poet who studied the arts on the Greek isle of Lesbos. Her poems were written to be accompanied with some nice backing tracks of lyre music. Sappho had refined her style and composed her own music, eventually leading to what is referred to as "sapphic meter."  Many works of Sappho are well-known because of the fact that not only were they written from her own view point, rather than those of the Gods, but also because the target of her affections were usually women.  Not only was Sappho the ancient Greek equivalent of a fucking rock star, but she was also, like Xena: Warrior Princess, an awesome lesbian icon.2.  Ban Zhao c.45-116 - China Ban Zhao was the very first female historian in China. The daughter of a historian and author, Ban Zhao finished her father's encyclopedic work, The Book of Han after he was imprisoned and executed. Ban Zhao...
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