5 Things:
1. Instead of doing my 3 pages of writing, taking a walk, and finding a recipe for what I want to cook and serve to my dinner guest tonight, I've been reading "Poets & Writers" May/June 2014 edition. The front cover says "Your Complete Guide to Free WRITING CONTESTS"--"Big Opportunities, Zero Cost."
2. Leafing through the magazine, I've noticed many ads for Writers Conferences, Creative Writing Programs, et al.
3. And I can't find the one where Sarah Schulman teaches. She is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the College of Staten Island, but CSI is not a writing program per se.
4. I've landed on the "Agents & Editors" article about Susan Golumb, who found Jonathan Franzen's
first novel The Twenty-Seventh City (FSG, 1988) in the slush pile. The first agent I contacted about my oeuvre wrote back and told me he didn't like my life and wanted more about deafness. I don't like my life, either, and I especially don't like deafness. My life comprises deafness in great measure.
5. All of which brings my unfinished oeuvre to mind. I just need to find the damn thing and print it out so I can revise it.
I hate being hard of hearing. Did not know you had a manuscript. Is it a memoir?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is a memoir of sorts. "The Zen of Deafness." Also my masters thesis.
ReplyDeletep.s. i didn't realize you are hard of hearing. my sympathy entirely!!
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