WHAT'S NEW!:
- May 1, 2008:
AN UPDATE OR REVISION OF SORTS TO THE PORTION OF MY NOVEL THAT IS POSTED
I have removed the Prologue from the novel manuscript. I have been on the brink of
doing this for a long time. I have come to believe it is superfluous and that the work
starts out better without it. I have still also kept an epigraph from chapter one, as
well. I may end up putting one there, if I can make it short and popping. But, to be honest
I think the novel starts out well as it does right now:
"It wasn't good, what L.D.'s dad said to his mom."
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- April 5, 2008:
THE MOTION IN MOTIVE
HAS NEW WORK
The next installment of work for our work-in-progress chapbook,
The Motion in Motive has
been posted.
I have just added the poem Sun Dial by
Prasanna Surakanti. This addition. like everything else, is in need of a graphic
illustration or other image inspired by it.
See next for guidelines on submitting graphic arts (and photographs)
as well as how to submit your words.
AND CLICK HERE FOR THE CHAPBOOK.
- April 5, 2008:
CALL FOR MORE WORK FOR
THE MOTION IN MOTIVE
Deadline and lock dates moved to Fall 2008
This virtual chapbook is a "work-in-progress."
The challenge is to build upon the theme, on-line, as
you and I arrive and depart the construction site. The chapbook
will be locked into place as a finished collection in September
2008.
Work in progress
Throughout the construction time, prose, poetry and
artwork/illustrations are posted as each is
accepted.
What's eligible?
Writing:
Any prose or poetry that reasonably addresses the theme (the title)
will be considered. I will tell you up front however, prose
pieces with an overtly academic flavor are not likely to
make the cut. That does not mean written from a frame-set
of intellect, it means I don't care much for prose that look
like a masters or doctoral thesis, or someone's school
essay assignment. Other than that, anything is fair game so
long as it actually is written well enough.
Artwork/Illustrations:
Artists and photographers can also submit images to be
considered as the main artwork for the chapbook or as an
illustration for any particular prose piece or poem. The
main image will not be chosen until August 2008. The illustrations
for each piece of writing will be picked when I see the one that
grabs me. I, too, will be working on art or photographs to use,
by-the-way. To keep things clean, once an image has been picked,
that's it for the illustration for that particular piece of writing --
no more submissions of illustrations will be accepted for it.
Each posted prose or poetry piece will be eligible for the
illustration until it is clear it has an image. Directly after the
choice has been made that fact will be clearly posted until
the image is up. As far as my own artwork, at some point,
for each, I will decide I have given submissions enough
time to come in and will use my own.
Authors may submit their own illustrations so long as the
following conditions are met: 1) if they are not the creator
of the images they must have verifiable proof of permission
and rights to use the image in conjunction with the
chapbook; 2) they understand that acceptance of the writing
and of the image are not inclusive -- I may not choose to
use the authors' art even if I accept their writing, and I may
use my own or others' images to illustrate the work.
There is no required slant to the images in terms of color
schemes or style. But, of course, you who are submitting
graphics, as with writing, must be in control of copyright
clearance to grant the WriteGallery rights to post the
work.
Limits and conditions
The limits of submissions per person are as they always are
for any individual project: three prose pieces and six poems
and a 5000 word limit on any single piece of work. And
yes, one can submit a total of three prose pieces and a total
of six poems (nine separate pieces of writing).
Artists/photographers may only submit two images for each
of the main graphic for the collection or two illustrations
for any individual prose or poetry work (that's 2 images per
prose piece or poem).
Specs for graphics (Note the Dec 2, 2007 inclusion of DPI recommendation):
- MAIN ILLUSTRATION
- must be free of text when submitted
- must be no smaller than 800 x 600 pixels
but no larger than 1152 x 768
- Images should be at least 300 DPI -- lower DPI may
result in rejection due to poor visual quality
- file type must be jpg or png
- file size can be no larger than 2 megabytes
- ILLUSTRATIONS FOR PIECES OF WRITING
- must be free of text when submitted
- must be no smaller than 400 pixels wide
but no larger than 800 pixels wide *and
the wider it is, the more the aspect ratio
should favor the width
- Images should be at least 300 DPI -- lower DPI may
result in rejection due to poor visual quality
- file type must be jpg or png
- file size can be no larger than 2 megabytes
All illustrations should be attached to email to:
writing@thewritegallery.com.
Illustrations can accompany the writing they illustrate or
can be separate -- please specify what each graphic is
illustrating.
Deadline
The call for submissions is open now and will remain in
effect until midnight, August 31, 2008.
ONE FINAL NOTE -- IF YOUR WRITING, PHOTOGRAPH OR
ART WORK BECOMES A PART OF THIS CHAPBOOK, IT
WILL STAY A PART OF THIS CHAPBOOK: This chapbook,
like all others here, is meant to be a single unit, collected of parts
that equal the whole. To that end it is to be published/posted as
such with all the elements to be kept as a part of it. Thus, no work
will be removed from the chapbook unless it is determined that the
work is plagiarized or otherwise infringes on copyright.
If I accept your writing or your image, you and I are agreeing that
such will stay posted with the chapbook. If you request later for
any work to be removed, that request will be denied. The work
stays with the chapbook. If you are not comfortable with this
arrangement, don't submit work for the chapbook; I will hold you
to our agreement if your work becomes a part of this venture.
To make a submission, go to the
Submission Guidelines page.
- December 14, 2006:
DISCLAIMER OF "SPONSORSHIP" OR ANY
OTHER AFFILIATION WITH A PARTICULAR WEB SITE AND THE CONTENTS
THERE
I was recently informed that a web site -- Webshots dot Com
-- has at least one page that deceptively suggests that both I and
an author who appears at the WriteGallery have sponsored the page
there. The page bears pictures of another person identified with
the same name as the WG author, but who is not that author. The
pictures are risqué.
There is also a false link to the title of the author's work
at this site. I say false because the excerpt presented is soft porn
text that is not a part of the story here. The link is actually not
active, either. That would be because if one were to click on the
link and come to the real story one would see it is not the soft
porn prose that the webshots page lies that it is.
The false link to the story and to the WriteGallery is in a section
entitled "sponsored links." Let me state here emphatically that neither
the WriteGallery nor the said author are a sponsor for anything at
webshots dot com, nor do we endorse or recommend any page at webshots
dot com. In fact, to the contrary, I advise against the webshots dot
com web site and rebuke it as unethical and dishonest.
In short, webshots dot com is fraudulent in at least some of its
content.
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