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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: February 2010
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Sunday, February 28, 2010. The Minors and the Big Leagues. Okay, I’m stealing the baseball analogy from the current issue of. The question I’ve been pondering lately is this: how do you know when you’re ready for the big game? I recently had a lit agency contact me about querying them, and the story of mine that they had read was published in an extremely tiny journal. I have a much larger journal in my publication past, but that wasn’t the one the agency noticed. Posted by Ashley Cowger. Think back R...
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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: Pressure
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Sunday, July 25, 2010. Part of it, too, is that I’m addicted to revising. I’ve never looked at a story and felt absolutely, positively. That the story is as good as it could be, that this is the final draft. It’s one of the main things I struggle with as a writer: how do you know when something is done? Posted by Ashley Cowger. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a fiction writer, a college English instructor, and an Associate Editor for Bound Off. My short story collection Peter Never Came was ...
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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: Self Publishing Part 2: A Calculated Risk
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Sunday, July 11, 2010. Self Publishing Part 2: A Calculated Risk. At any rate, she did successfully get me thinking about what benefits self publishing may offer the writer who doesn’t want to go the traditional route. Now first of all I think it’s important to make the distinction between the writer who. Get his or her manuscript accepted by a real publisher and the writer who. To publish with a traditional publishing house. If you. Posted by Ashley Cowger. July 11, 2010 at 6:59 AM. The End . . . Master...
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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: October 2010
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Sunday, October 3, 2010. Alright, folks, my "brief" hiatus was a bit longer than expected, but I'm back, and my new blog. Is up and running. My new website. Isn't . . . yet. But it will be. Soon. I swear. Posted by Ashley Cowger. The End . . . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. The End . . . Trina B., Kelly F., and Laurie W.'s Post MFA Blog. Justin Daugherty's "Between the Wish and the Thing". Master Dayton's Freelance Writing Blog. Justus Humphrey's Half Thought Thoughts on Writing.
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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: August 2010
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Sunday, August 22, 2010. Brief Hiatus: The End of an Era. Well, the time has come. So I’m working on putting together my website, and I decided that I should, first of all, condense and combine my current two blogs (I mean, really, do I need two blogs if both of them are just me talking about writing? I also decided that, rather than having a blog that is primarily me being a spokesperson for. I would just create a sort of multi-purpose blog. It’ll be my author’s blog as well as my. What I have noticed, ...
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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: July 2010
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Sunday, July 25, 2010. Part of it, too, is that I’m addicted to revising. I’ve never looked at a story and felt absolutely, positively. That the story is as good as it could be, that this is the final draft. It’s one of the main things I struggle with as a writer: how do you know when something is done? Posted by Ashley Cowger. Sunday, July 18, 2010. Is up on the website, and it’s a good one. The MFA/MFYou website has officially been up and running for about two years now, and sometime soon I p...Most of...
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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: October 2009
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Sunday, October 25, 2009. The MFA/MFYou newsletter is going to take a week off . . . because I am extremely sick. I'll be back next week, I promise, all rested up and ready to write your ears off. Or should I say eyes? Posted by Ashley Cowger. Sunday, October 18, 2009. And I’d rather be a poor writer than a financially comfortable nothing. Posted by Ashley Cowger. Sunday, October 11, 2009. Hear motivational speakers and self help books rely on this somewhat wrongheaded approach: if you keep your mind in ...
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Dynamite From Nightmare Land: July 2010
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Dynamite From Nightmare Land. The Official Blog of Ike Oden. Who is a writer of sorts. Monday, July 26, 2010. Post-It Note On Refridgerator Blog. Blog, here's your list of things to remind me of:. List Of Things To Write For The Next Two Months:. 1 DVD Reviews for DVD Verdict. 2 Literary Adaption Screenplay. 3 Experimental short film. List Of Things To Write For October and Novmber:. 1 See #1 on the above list. 2 Revise second draft of Three Days To Passover. 4) Get to work on MAKING #3 if we're there yet.
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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: June 2010
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Sunday, June 27, 2010. Article about his experiences self publishing a couple of books, Steve Almond (who, it should be noted for the sake of credibility, had published several books with actual publishing houses prior to his foray into the self publishing arena) points out that “for most of us mortals, the path to publication is littered with false starts” (68). Let me just say that Almond is. Yes, sometimes it feels like there’s. But false starts. But maybe the best thing to do is to focus on the w...
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The MFA/MFYou Newsletter: Always Room to Grow
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Sunday, August 1, 2010. Always Room to Grow. But perhaps even more exciting than that: her feedback is helping me to become a better writer. I have this proclivity towards what she calls “prose hesitation,” (I. Always has the potential to be the best thing you’ve ever written. Posted by Ashley Cowger. Do tell: whats pose hesitation? August 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM. August 1, 2010 at 11:37 AM. Even in that comment Im doing it. Ha ha! I need to be more concise, is what I should have said. Thats such a tough thin...