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nightbird at 03:28pm on 28/06/2010
nightbird at 03:28pm on 28/06/2010This is not a post about The Falling Woman, though I am leaving Friday morning and I am 137 words into that final pre-denouement scene. (I think this past fortnight has been my most frequent/concentrated use of the word "denouement" ever.) This is a post about Unlined.org, my sadly, sorely neglected litrag.
I've learned a lot since I started it, mostly because unlike four years ago, I've been actually reading a lot more online fiction. It's not like I've stalking through back issues of regular literary magazines, though I should, because there are amazing authors out there that I'd never find otherwise; but what's been getting me is the experimental fiction sites. The ones in which junk becomes treasure by telling the stories behind it, or the ones that just tell one story every week, or the ones that inspire through their ordinariness, or...
The pattern is clear to me: keep it simple, stupid. Make something new, and repeat it over and over again, to get at it from as many angles as you can. Some websites are just thank-you notes to the world. Some are postcards to no one or found objects. Some are snarky takes on grammar fails that nonetheless inspire something anyway.
The other secret is using Wordpress, honestly. The ability to just update and not have to fret about HTML and changing versions and all that other static web stuff is really nice for a change of pace.
So anyway, yes. I will continue to do some thinking about this. Probably after I get back from my trip. I just like my domain (and the potential) too much to let it go.
I've learned a lot since I started it, mostly because unlike four years ago, I've been actually reading a lot more online fiction. It's not like I've stalking through back issues of regular literary magazines, though I should, because there are amazing authors out there that I'd never find otherwise; but what's been getting me is the experimental fiction sites. The ones in which junk becomes treasure by telling the stories behind it, or the ones that just tell one story every week, or the ones that inspire through their ordinariness, or...
The pattern is clear to me: keep it simple, stupid. Make something new, and repeat it over and over again, to get at it from as many angles as you can. Some websites are just thank-you notes to the world. Some are postcards to no one or found objects. Some are snarky takes on grammar fails that nonetheless inspire something anyway.
The other secret is using Wordpress, honestly. The ability to just update and not have to fret about HTML and changing versions and all that other static web stuff is really nice for a change of pace.
So anyway, yes. I will continue to do some thinking about this. Probably after I get back from my trip. I just like my domain (and the potential) too much to let it go.
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If you were doing some kind of experimental fiction and posted regularly, thus gaining a readership, this would be a much better venue from which to advertise for submissions and make a online lit-mag much more notable aka desirable to submit to. (Just some ideas, which you may already have considered. :)