Baby Rant At My Own Expense
Bah. My next book is a long poem in Roman numbered
sections, all with the same title “In a Landscape,” and, because I started
writing it that way, I left them that way, though I’m pretty terrible at
counting in Roman, and finding poems in it when I go looking for specific ones,
when they pretty much have the same titles, is a mess. Anyway, I’m here to
admit to my failure in this regard, as it has ended up causing me to send
sections that have already been published out to journals. One would think it
would be easy to just write the numbers down (which I do!), but as I’ve done it
twice now, where a journal takes something that another journal has accepted
(and in the case this morning, actually published), I’m realizing that’s not
working well.
I can’t wait to go back to using titles.
Just saying.
posted by John Gallaher @ 8:39 AM
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1 Comments:
I have found myself revising a work slightly (after it has already been published) and changing the title, and then it's not listed as "published" in my records, and a few months later out it goes to another magazine. Oops. Luckily no one has gone ahead and published the newer version, yet. I kept a better track of it all.
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