From Poop to Glimmer

This is a 20-minute presentation I gave in 2010 during my MFA senior lecture at Antioch University. I originally created it as a coping mechanism for stage fright, but I've gotten feedback from people who attended the lecture or watched it online that they found it (almost) useful when thinking about their own process of writing, submitting, getting rejected, and eventually getting published. So let me know what you think...

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Here are some documents and links associated with the presentation...

Links (referenced in presentation)

• Duotrope's Digest: https://www.duotrope.com/

• Tobias Wolff's "The Liar" from In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs

• How Fiction Works by James Wood

• Glimmer Train

• The Sun Magazine

• Carve Magazine

• Narrative Magazine

• Poop Report (NOW DEFUNCT. RIP.)