Some info if you are interested in writing/marketing/publishing novels:
The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It . . . Successfully by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry (Nov 4, 2010)
The Nitty Gritty Guide to Finding a Literary Agent (Nitty Gritty Guides) by Sara Rosett (Apr 7, 2011) - Kindle eBook
2012 Guide to Literary Agents by Chuck Sambuchino (Sep 6, 2011)
2011 Guide To Literary Agents by Chuck Sambuchino (Aug 5, 2010)
How to Get a Literary Agent by Michael Larsen (Apr 1, 2006)
Some other sites/info:
http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-beware/agents/
http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents
Thursday, April 19, 2012
where to publish
some literary journals and links:
http://www.quarteraftereight.org/ (fiction, poetry, hybrid)
Tarpaulin sky
Kelsey street
Krupskaya
Dorothy
siglio press
futurepoem
roof
Skidrow Penthouse
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/index.htm
Mudfish,Cream City Review, Chelsea, Washington Square, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Iron Horse
Review, American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat,
Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, First Intensity, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental
Literature, LIT, and Notre Dame Review, Colorado Review (poetry), Denver Quarterly
**Audio/performance:
http://textsound.org/ (tell them I told you to send your work and you were in my class)
Lists of interesting sites/presses/projects/publications online and off:
http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/about/links/
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/links.html (a list of odd places to publish)
http://www.durationpress.com/pages/links.htm (list of links to other sites, presses, publishers)
http://www.subitopress.org/amici
http://www.subitopress.org/archives/category/small-press-project
http://www.quarteraftereight.org/ (fiction, poetry, hybrid)
Tarpaulin sky
Kelsey street
Krupskaya
Dorothy
siglio press
futurepoem
roof
Skidrow Penthouse
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/index.htm
Mudfish,Cream City Review, Chelsea, Washington Square, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Iron Horse
Review, American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat,
Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, First Intensity, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental
Literature, LIT, and Notre Dame Review, Colorado Review (poetry), Denver Quarterly
**Audio/performance:
http://textsound.org/ (tell them I told you to send your work and you were in my class)
Lists of interesting sites/presses/projects/publications online and off:
http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/about/links/
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/links.html (a list of odd places to publish)
http://www.durationpress.com/pages/links.htm (list of links to other sites, presses, publishers)
http://www.subitopress.org/amici
http://www.subitopress.org/archives/category/small-press-project
Thursday, April 12, 2012
For April 19 Last Day of Class
Terms Due: turn in a typed copy of the Terms list with examples from texts we've read for each (interpret this creatively as you can make examples apply to the particular terms)
*Final Portfolios Due(bring a large envelope with postage if you'd like me to send your portfolio back to you) (see assignment sheet on myemich)
* Publishing Projects Due (come prepared to present/discuss/share how you made, and where you placed your "book" in the world (see assignment sheet on myemich)
Writing: final creative writing assignment; choose one of the prompts from the handout and write a poem, a story, and a hybrid piece. (handout on myemich)
*Final Portfolios Due(bring a large envelope with postage if you'd like me to send your portfolio back to you) (see assignment sheet on myemich)
* Publishing Projects Due (come prepared to present/discuss/share how you made, and where you placed your "book" in the world (see assignment sheet on myemich)
Writing: final creative writing assignment; choose one of the prompts from the handout and write a poem, a story, and a hybrid piece. (handout on myemich)
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Updated Schedule
April
5: Jennifer K. Dick, Fluorescence
12: Goldberg (myemich): Claim your Writing, Trust Yourself, The Samuri, Reading and Rewriting, I Don’t Want to Die
Lamott, Bird By Bird: finish book
Terms
19: *Final Portfolios Due(bring a large envelope with postage if you'd like me to send your portfolio back to you)
* Publishing Projects Due
Last Day of Class
5: Jennifer K. Dick, Fluorescence
12: Goldberg (myemich): Claim your Writing, Trust Yourself, The Samuri, Reading and Rewriting, I Don’t Want to Die
Lamott, Bird By Bird: finish book
Terms
19: *Final Portfolios Due(bring a large envelope with postage if you'd like me to send your portfolio back to you)
* Publishing Projects Due
Last Day of Class
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
This Week 3/29
Read Fiction Packet 3 (myemich) and come prepared to present/discuss 2-3 stories
Read Lamott, Bird By Bird pgs 95-150
Fiction Portfolio Due (assignment sheet on myemich)
Blog Response on Fiction Packet 3 and/or Lamott
Writing:
Identify a specific early childhood memory. Write down everything you can remember about it. You may choose to do this from your current perspective or from the perspective you had at that age. Take the writing of this memory and turn it into a story in either 1st or 3rd person, past or present tense. Include character, place/space, situation/conflict, and some sort of ending/resolution.
Last week's writing assignment: choose a sentence from a Wreckage of Reason story and use this to begin writing your own story.
Read Lamott, Bird By Bird pgs 95-150
Fiction Portfolio Due (assignment sheet on myemich)
Blog Response on Fiction Packet 3 and/or Lamott
Writing:
Identify a specific early childhood memory. Write down everything you can remember about it. You may choose to do this from your current perspective or from the perspective you had at that age. Take the writing of this memory and turn it into a story in either 1st or 3rd person, past or present tense. Include character, place/space, situation/conflict, and some sort of ending/resolution.
Last week's writing assignment: choose a sentence from a Wreckage of Reason story and use this to begin writing your own story.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
For next week 3/22
Follow syllabus for Wreckage of Reason reading assignment.
Turn in Midterm Evaluation Responses, hard copy, without your name unless you want to include your name; available on myemich.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29; assignment sheet on myemich.
The final publishing project assignment is posted on myemich. I will bring in samples next week, but start thinking about what you want to do.
Blog response on new reading from Wreckage; write about 2-3 stories.
Writing; Choose one of the following:
a. Write a description of a rural landscape, a city street, or a room. Use only active verbs to describe inanimate as well as animate tings. Use concrete and sensory details to make the description come alive.
b. Write about a boring situation. Convince your reader that the situation boring and that your characters are bored or boring or both. Fascinate the reader with your description of this boring situation. Use humor or other strategies. Do not use generalizations or judgments. Be specific and concrete.
c. Write about one of the following and “Show” the rhythm and functioning of the subject through the language and structure of the prose: a machine of some kind, a vehicle, a piece of music, something that goes in a circle, an avalanche…something else along these lines?
Use the results from the above exercise(s) to construct a story. Include one or more characters in a place having some sort of situation. The story can be long or short. It can be in parts or include some kind of form or structure that is not linear. Etc. Type this up.
Turn in Midterm Evaluation Responses, hard copy, without your name unless you want to include your name; available on myemich.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29; assignment sheet on myemich.
The final publishing project assignment is posted on myemich. I will bring in samples next week, but start thinking about what you want to do.
Blog response on new reading from Wreckage; write about 2-3 stories.
Writing; Choose one of the following:
a. Write a description of a rural landscape, a city street, or a room. Use only active verbs to describe inanimate as well as animate tings. Use concrete and sensory details to make the description come alive.
b. Write about a boring situation. Convince your reader that the situation boring and that your characters are bored or boring or both. Fascinate the reader with your description of this boring situation. Use humor or other strategies. Do not use generalizations or judgments. Be specific and concrete.
c. Write about one of the following and “Show” the rhythm and functioning of the subject through the language and structure of the prose: a machine of some kind, a vehicle, a piece of music, something that goes in a circle, an avalanche…something else along these lines?
Use the results from the above exercise(s) to construct a story. Include one or more characters in a place having some sort of situation. The story can be long or short. It can be in parts or include some kind of form or structure that is not linear. Etc. Type this up.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Next Week Bathhouse Events and Assignments
Steiner visit and Bathhouse events: http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=986
For Class on Thur: Read Bird by Bird p33-95 and come prepared for in class writing on the text and discussion.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29
For Class on Thur: Read Bird by Bird p33-95 and come prepared for in class writing on the text and discussion.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
For This Week
Read from Wreckage of Reason: Foos, Reeves, Lillis, Treat, Jackson, Natov, Mazza, DeLuca and come prepared to discuss the stories.
Fiction: bring 1-2 stories of your own to share and workshop, written from the exercises we've done in class.
Blog: You should be writing about some of the stories in Wreckage of Reason this week.
Fiction: bring 1-2 stories of your own to share and workshop, written from the exercises we've done in class.
Blog: You should be writing about some of the stories in Wreckage of Reason this week.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
This Week
For Thur:
Read Fiction Packet 2 and Burroway posted on myemich, and come prepared to discuss.
Post on your blog:
1. your own story you started writing in class last time we met (place, character, something that happens to that character in that place).
2. responses to any of the fiction stories from packets 1 or 2 that you haven't yet written about.
Read Fiction Packet 2 and Burroway posted on myemich, and come prepared to discuss.
Post on your blog:
1. your own story you started writing in class last time we met (place, character, something that happens to that character in that place).
2. responses to any of the fiction stories from packets 1 or 2 that you haven't yet written about.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
For Tomorrow 2/9
Read the Lamott, Bird by Bird: Introduction to p44.
Finish reading City Eclogue and we'll discuss this some at the beginning of class.
Print and bring the fiction packet (1) available on myemich. We will use/discuss this in class.
Poetry portfolio due.
Writing Exercises:
Finish reading City Eclogue and we'll discuss this some at the beginning of class.
Print and bring the fiction packet (1) available on myemich. We will use/discuss this in class.
Poetry portfolio due.
Writing Exercises:
in class writing: make 3 lists of 10 words from City Eclogue, use each list to write a poem using the whole list in each, so that you have 3 poems; then write a 4th poem which uses words from all 3 lists.
writing hw: 20 poetry projects: follow instructions from the handout posted on myemich
Thursday, January 26, 2012
for next week
follow syllabus
2 poems due, revise 2 poems, type, and turn in
read Roberson's City Eclogue and come prepared to discuss 3-4 poems
read the second Goldberg selection (Syntax, et al)
Remember: Bathhouse Reading, Dodie Bellamy, Feb 7 (http://www.emich.edu/english/creative-writing/readingseries.php#Event3)
2 poems due, revise 2 poems, type, and turn in
read Roberson's City Eclogue and come prepared to discuss 3-4 poems
read the second Goldberg selection (Syntax, et al)
Remember: Bathhouse Reading, Dodie Bellamy, Feb 7 (http://www.emich.edu/english/creative-writing/readingseries.php#Event3)
Thursday, January 19, 2012
for next week
Follow the readings on the syllabus.
Bring a printed copy of the poetry packet to use in class.
Bring poems to share and discuss (your own work).
Write a blog post that discusses any of the poems from the poetry packet. Be specific, use examples, explain your points and be thoughtful in your response. (3-5 thoughtful and comprehensive paragraphs.
Creative Assignment:
Write 2 sonnets of your own in any style and following (or not following) any rules of writing that you like. Write these 2 sonnets so that they are not regular/cliche love poems but instead do something else.
Bring a printed copy of the poetry packet to use in class.
Bring poems to share and discuss (your own work).
Write a blog post that discusses any of the poems from the poetry packet. Be specific, use examples, explain your points and be thoughtful in your response. (3-5 thoughtful and comprehensive paragraphs.
Creative Assignment:
Write 2 sonnets of your own in any style and following (or not following) any rules of writing that you like. Write these 2 sonnets so that they are not regular/cliche love poems but instead do something else.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Welcome!
Welcome to Intro to Creative Writing. Here I'll post weekly updates, assignments, and announcements. Make sure your blog is working, from the blog list to the left (when they get posted), and feel free to check others' blogs to see what they're thinking and writing.
For next week:
Follow syllabus. Readings are posted on myemich (under "files" for this class). From the poetry packet, read: Shakespeare, Mullen, and Berrigan (sonnets).
Also, set up your blog according to the instructions and bring the URL to class next week.
And, the creative assignment: write 2 poems using the language from 1 of the poems from the handout we used in class. You can only use the language from the original poem (all or some of it) and you cannot use more than one or more words in a row (rearrange the individual words and make 2 different poems of your own from the words).
For next week:
Follow syllabus. Readings are posted on myemich (under "files" for this class). From the poetry packet, read: Shakespeare, Mullen, and Berrigan (sonnets).
Also, set up your blog according to the instructions and bring the URL to class next week.
And, the creative assignment: write 2 poems using the language from 1 of the poems from the handout we used in class. You can only use the language from the original poem (all or some of it) and you cannot use more than one or more words in a row (rearrange the individual words and make 2 different poems of your own from the words).
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