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Issue one includes work from Chris Akeley, Richard Basey, Katherine Chua, Lilia Estrada, Greg Gerke, Carissa Halston, Jay Hanagan, Douglas Holder, Timothy Mudie, Charles Oliver, Randolph Pfaff, Tedd Riccio, Adam Smith, Sarah Trachtenberg and Elif Wisecup.
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Neil
You are right. Most online sites are just to get some bucks out of desperate visitors in one form or other other. Site you mentioned is just a useless site that will do any thing to get some visitor hooked.
Print business continues to be what it was. Some publishers or rather most have informative sites for their customers, authors or editors but for online publishing you dont need anyone. You can simply publish to start with a blog and get some attention.
I find millions of online publishers. Even according to google alerts, Random House,Wiley etc. are into this online biz.
How reliable these sites are ,I cannot say but I think I'm on a free lotto site.
Are these sites worth it? Any suggestions?
Penguin has sunk so low, that you have a look at their phony contest at www.sulekha.com/penguin
The quality of the stories speaks for itself.
Strong language? I am thinking that if you mean by strong language that you are referring to using profane or obscene language in a novel intended for young adults or more specifically teenagers, then, I would answer by saying that I think that, probably, every young adult has an expansive library located in their brain of not only all of those kinds of words that we adults have knowledge of but they could probably teach us a few that we have not yet heard of and that they probably have a pretty good idea of what each of those words refer to and that they know when and when not to use them, as well. However, I don’t think that if I were to author a novel for young adults that I wound stoop to the speech of the gutter to help them to learn such things as to be truant from educational classes is not an acceptable behavior or one that will get them very far in life. I would speak to teenagers with respectful language; which is that other language that they are all very familiar with, too. I think that most teens are very receptive to the language of their fatherland and when they are spoken to with mutual respect they understand perfectly well what a good author is trying to convey to them. I think that when an author stoops to the use of gutter language that that author may get quick attention from teenagers that are not too far from their puberty days but as to the vast majority of the other young adults that they are neither so shallow nor so callous as that author may think. I think it is a mistake to under estimate the teen adult’s mind. I think that their minds are nearly always seeking something better than trash talking to guide them to the level that they may see themselves achieving someday and so do I.
Perhaps, novels that utilize profane language do meld better with the young adult’s mind than I would know about but I like to think that though the young adult while in a heated conversation or situation might use profane or obscene language that when he or she are in “normal” conversations and normal situations that they know better than to use that kind of gutter language, therefore, I think that when they are in the mode to learn something that may be of some real use to them or for them or about them that they don’t want to hear trash talk they want to hear those words spoken to them in the mother tongue and expressed in decent and respectful language.
Trash talk sells but as to its usefulness in teaching long-lasting values to young or even older adults, to my way of thinking, is suspect!
As to reality being hidden from teenagers I don’t think makes much sense because I think that teenagers have a very good idea of what reality really is and I think that they also know the difference between some author pointing out worthy realities and some author that thinks that most teenagers have pea size brains and cannot function adequately or sufficiently without some sort of profanity or obscenity expressed in their reading material.
I think that if you want to be a great author I would suggest that you read the already great authors of today and of yesterday and learn what made their novels great and I don’t think that the use of profanity or obscenity in any language will be on your list of how you can write that great novel that will fulfill that famous and historical destiny for yourself, some day.
How much stong language should there be in a novel for young adults?
Should adults be seen to encourage a fifteen year-old to truant?
Some adults think not, yet these are things that adolescents meet and hiding reality is often counter-productive.
What do you think?
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From: Hugo Dell, web editor, Simply Great Books.
On: How to Write Modern Poetry by Geoff Tims, 100 pages, PDF Format, ISBN 1 84481 101 8, published by Cool Publications (www.coolpublications.com), £4.99. Also available in CD format with extra files and screensavers, ISBN 1 84481 102 6, £11.99.
An expert guide on how to get beneath the skin of poetry
Modern poetry is a literary minefield. Its seeming disregard for all the obvious rules of more traditional poetry forms has often made it an easy target for critics who found it hard to understand and a difficult arena for budding poets who struggled to adequately find the form needed to bring their thoughts to life.
As a journalist I’m wary of How-to books because they tend to marginalise the true effort required to create anything that’s remotely adequate, let alone good. Their prescriptive approach tends to favour a “now we do this and next we’ll do that-“ formula that rarely works.
All of which makes Geoff Tims’ How to Write Modern Poetry the exception that proves the rule. A working poet who never stops seeking ways to improve his craft Tims’ book has forsaken the formulaic approach on How-to do anything for a compressed masterclass on the writing of modern poetry.
Opening with ‘What is Modern Poetry’ Tims analyses not just the genre but the form itself. He makes the point that good poetry is good poetry irrespective of style and draws real parallels between the different art forms, asking the reader to first look inside themselves before they think of putting pen to paper.
As you’d expect in a How-to book there is the inevitable step-by-step approach that, in this case, feels entirely natural, chatty and unforced. The exercises at the end of each chapter have a specific aim: to bring out the poet inside the reader. To sensitise us to the world around us, to make us aware of the potent power of words and to teach us the secrets of the craft of modern poetry that successful poets find out about the hard way.
Taking the unusual, and very brave, tact of developing a poem alongside the reader Geoff Tims explores what exactly makes a poem great and then goes on to give examples, create crisis points the budding poet must resolve and offer advice.
Watching the poem develop is akin to taking an apprenticeship beside a master craftsman. The digital format of the book makes it perfect for skipping around through all its bookmarks and, for once, I was able to read three chapters on the train and do the exercises without having to suffer the supercilious glances of fellow travellers prepared to make judgement about anyone trying to be a poet.
Geoff Tims’ book is thoroughly exhaustive of its subject as only a How-to book can be and passionately personal in its arguments as you’d expect from a poet who’s very much at the centre of his art. It is also tremendously helpful, full of insight, occasionally witty and always gentle in its guidance. If all How-to books were like this the genre itself would see a revival beyond anyone’s expectations and…there would be fewer badly-attempted poems about.
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Hugo Dell is a freelance journalist, film critic and author. He is a regular contributor to Fighting Fit Online magazine and Simply Great Books website where he acts as guest web editor. He can be reached at: Hugo.Dell@simplygreatbooks.com
open wide magazine issue 9 now online.
Featuring –
Drew Gummerson, Tom Sheenan, Clifford Green, A.D. Winans, W.P. Osborn, Doug Kimball, Ken Hickey, Brian Downes, Mel Cartagena, Jamie Campbell, Rob Rosen, Robert David Anderson, B. Z. Niditch, Susan Townsend, Delphine Lecompte, Alison Whittenburg, Thomas Stock, Merkuliev Sergey, Bernie Torrance, Carissa Halston, Josef Lesser, Luke Buckham, E.William Martin, Cory Mesler, G.Emil Reutter, John Thompson, Christopher Kornacki, Hal Sirowitz, David Mitchell, Femi Olawyui, L.Ward Abel, J.J. Campbell, Lisa Kimmel, Jasmine Maddocks and Brian Bradley
And being interviewed artist/musician/poet and JRPR editor – E. William Martin.
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and to possibly take me to a higher level.
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