The Rememberer

[morrigirl]

I have to remember that this isn't about love, sex, desire, friends, lonliness or getting away from my mother. I have a tendancy to think that's what Baltimore is all about. It's not. Never was. It's about Carla wanting to go to grad school and the program she likes best being located in Baltimore. Point blank.

Was talking to Gayle on the phone last night and she asked me "Why do you want to move to Baltimore? Why not Chicago?" And I gave her every answer other than the real one. Told her because it was cheap, because I know people there, because it's not horribly far from New York. Didn't mention that Goucher College has a very respected low residancy creative nonfiction MFA program. Mainly because that's something I've sorta been keeping to myself. I wrote about it in a private entry a few weeks ago.

Yeah, I'm sick of not using my brain on a regular basis. I wanna get my masters. I want to be able to teach if I need to. Not many institutions have creative nonfiction teachers. I'd love to teach that. Never thought I had the temperment for teaching, but I think I could handle university classes. I wanna be like Tom Franklin. I wanna do for others what he did for my writing.

Seems like everyone on earth has been productive but me. Here's my to do list:

Buy new walkman
Request information from Goucher
Deposit paycheck
Email Anne
Call Deepa
Fold my laundry
Go to Old Navy
Buy a new dresser
Call Amtrak and buy my train tickets
Copy poems onto disk and print them out
Print out travel voucher

I know there's more, but as per usual I can't think of it.

With any luck by the end of the week I'm gonna grow a set of balls and submit some poems for rejection as gwydionsw says. Hey Adam (or anyone else who knows), question: most of the magazines I want to submit to ask for cover letters. Um...what is one suppose to say in a cover letter to a lit mag? Refresh my memory if you can? Please?

Comments

[kdc4evr.livejournal.com]

I have no clue what you're supposed to say in a cover letter for a lit mag - but try googling it - something along the lines of magazine submission cover letter examples - you'll find something - I needed more cover letter examples last night & found a bunch of sites

Let's see...

[gwydionsw.livejournal.com]

All I really did in mine was say I'm a new writer, frist submission, talked briefly about a piece they'd previously published that I liked, and that I was simultaneously submitting to two other magazines. That's it. Quick little thing showing that I had at least some knowledge of the magazine. That's it. I was struggling to remember myself considering I forgot the notebook were I wrote down what Metz said about it back at home. Think I got the main points though. Good luck with it.

You rock my socks

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you Adam!!! You rock my socks!!! Yeah, I'm sure Monica went over it with us at some point during Poetry Workshop but I have no consious recollection of it. Probably because she never liked any of my poetry anyway so I stopped listening to her half way through the semester. Oh well. Thanks again.