[stylist] What comes first?...the story or the call for submission

[Shelley J. Alongi]

Sorry guys I forgot to change the subject line in my last post to the list. 
anyway, I spontaneously create and worry about publishing later. Since I'm 
supposed to be working on my own web site I won't have much of a problem 
publishing; selling that might be another story. But as long as I have a day 
job I'll keep writing and letting people read my work. If you've ever heard 
of NANOWRIMO National Novel Writing Month it's a project where you write 
fifty thousand words in a month from beginning to end then edit later it's a 
principal I work with, writing ideas for stories and then editing later. I'm 
amazed at how my stories create themselves and how some ideas find their 
ways into other stories. But they would have never found themselves anywhere 
if I simply hadn't taken time to write them.
Shelley J. Alongi
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updated Dec 7, 2008
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From: "Amy Krout-Horn" <krouthorn at verizon.net>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:16 AM
Subject: [stylist] What comes first?...the story or the call for submission


> Hi Writers,
> Thanks James. I appreciate the summery of the last phone meeting, as well 
> as your sense of humor. Here's a question for the list or perhaps, the 
> February phone meeting, or both: As a rule, do you (everyone reading this) 
> search out calls for submission, then create a manuscript to fit what the 
> publication is looking for? On the flip side, do most of you spontaneously 
> create, file the finished product away, and wait for a niche to arrive? I 
> tend to do the latter, but am curious as to what others do and whether 
> they feel their method is successful. Let's dialogue about this.
> Amy K-H
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