tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394332272960799444.post3964092227343670494..comments2024-02-25T06:04:45.896-06:00Comments on Stoneboat: Shrinkage and Freebagging: A Lesson in WriteringStoneboathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10099734404338813190noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394332272960799444.post-2819722784218683362012-01-26T19:16:25.126-06:002012-01-26T19:16:25.126-06:00There are other ways to have an existential crisis...There are other ways to have an existential crisis. IT and hospitalization are good, but I'd argue that I have legitimate grounds as well. I recently realized that I've spent the last four years of my life reading thousands of pages of mind-numbing freshman composition work, and then I realized that I've got about forty years and forty million pages to go. <br /><br />So, Jim, what's making YOU angsty? You haven't weighed in on this yet...Sig.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07548436937964592513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394332272960799444.post-169636904336131452011-12-29T00:25:27.330-06:002011-12-29T00:25:27.330-06:00Let's go crazy people. Try spending 8 days in ...Let's go crazy people. Try spending 8 days in the hospital on morphine and antibiotics trying to knock a nasty infection out of your system. Throw in some laproscopic surgery and you then have the doorway to a really fine existential crisis. Or, you can try working in IT for four months.<br /><br />Anyway, bring on the surprises to Stoneboat. Please. We need to be pulverized by them...Lisanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394332272960799444.post-87298994194767505792011-12-14T20:54:55.820-06:002011-12-14T20:54:55.820-06:00I think our esteemed editor in chief is suggesting...I think our esteemed editor in chief is suggesting that we are bored of the same overused metaphors and the same tired plot lines and the same boring rhyme schemes. Please. Send us something fresh. Make us scratch our heads a little and want to give your work a second glance. <br /><br />While I was working on the critical introduction to my MFA thesis, I read a great line from someone with far more impressive writing credentials than my own. This person, whose identity eludes me at the moment, said something to the extent of, "If there's no surprise for the writer, there's no surprise for the reader." Exactly. So please -- surprise yourselves, and then surprise us.Sig.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07548436937964592513noreply@blogger.com