Intrductory Post
Jul 15, 2016 15:27:57 GMT -6
Post by alonewithcookies on Jul 15, 2016 15:27:57 GMT -6
Hi guys, Jim here! I'm sorry I haven't gotten a chance to post in this forum since being accepted to the workshop. I've been traveling in Canada for the past week and a lot of that has been in a national park, so prolonged computer access was challenging. Anyway, I just wanted to make a quick thread introducing myself - mostly to Endovia/Sophie because we haven't talked before - and also maybe letting everyone know that I'm alive and participating. If people don't know, I write mostly fantasy/YA non-fiction, and that will probably take up the bulk of my submission to this workshop. Looking forward to working with you guys!
Also, there's something else I want to ask about. Sometimes when I'm a little burnt out by writing fiction, I work on shorter poetry pieces. I've been thinking about submitting a few of them to the first workshop, because traveling meant that I haven't gotten the time I want to flesh out the fiction piece I'll be submitting for what will likely be round 2. One thing I want to talk about is the poetry submission length. Right now it's at a 10-50 lines limit, and I've already mentioned to Amber that I think we should increase it. My reasoning behind the thought is that a short or medium-length poem can easily clock in at 20 lines without being very long at all (to use a pretty well-known example, Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken is actually exactly 20 lines, and a robust 144 words). Especially with poetry, the lines don't have a lot of words, and often can be very short with certain formatting. With 50 lines, this effectively caps the submission at 2 poems with some tricky formatting. I think it'd make more sense to increase the limit, and also gauge it by word count rather than line count so that poems with a lot of breaks aren't punished. My experience is that 300 words makes a good length for a medium-length poem, and something like a 900-1000 word limit gives a reasonable 3 poems per submission. What are people's thoughts on this?
Also, there's something else I want to ask about. Sometimes when I'm a little burnt out by writing fiction, I work on shorter poetry pieces. I've been thinking about submitting a few of them to the first workshop, because traveling meant that I haven't gotten the time I want to flesh out the fiction piece I'll be submitting for what will likely be round 2. One thing I want to talk about is the poetry submission length. Right now it's at a 10-50 lines limit, and I've already mentioned to Amber that I think we should increase it. My reasoning behind the thought is that a short or medium-length poem can easily clock in at 20 lines without being very long at all (to use a pretty well-known example, Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken is actually exactly 20 lines, and a robust 144 words). Especially with poetry, the lines don't have a lot of words, and often can be very short with certain formatting. With 50 lines, this effectively caps the submission at 2 poems with some tricky formatting. I think it'd make more sense to increase the limit, and also gauge it by word count rather than line count so that poems with a lot of breaks aren't punished. My experience is that 300 words makes a good length for a medium-length poem, and something like a 900-1000 word limit gives a reasonable 3 poems per submission. What are people's thoughts on this?
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