Thanks, DJ. I agree with the official step. The problem is who is to take it.
The first thing I suppose would be to decide by vote, what kind of book we want and who is going to to what.
But I am only suggesting.
Thanks, DJ. I agree with the official step. The problem is who is to take it.
The first thing I suppose would be to decide by vote, what kind of book we want and who is going to to what.
But I am only suggesting.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Yeah, how do we know it is official just because we do it?Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Huh! Don't come and ask me for directions – I barely know my left from my right, lol… No, seriously, I'd say those who are already on board should stay on board, namely you, desiresjab, and you, Danik, as well as YesNo. I'd nominate heartwing as well if she accepts this because she has given us quite a lot of background information about copyrights and so on. I know she said she was more into prose but I reckon the worst poetry critic am I – normally judging poems by a "I like it"-"I like it not"-scale. Anyone who comes up with good new suggestions can hop on board too. There's someone I would have loved to see on board but he has made it very clear that he doesn't want anything to do with the project. I take the entire responsibility for that because it's been me who has thrown him off by my rash and stupid move of submitting one of his poems without asking. It's a loss for the project, I'm quite aware of that, but what's been done has been done…
Btw, desiresjab, I read your input on the Submission thread ("I see some fine poetry being posted these days from numerous people"). Why wouldn't you leave a comment in the concerned threads asking the authors whether they'd care to join and whether you're allowed to suggest their poem? That might make people react… Just an idea.
I know I haven't submitted much new stuff from my fellow LitNetters lately but the problem is I want to ask their permission beforehand (won't make the same mistake twice) and haven't got an answer yet. But I'll do what I suggested above: I'll leave a comment in the threads of my favorite poems and ask them there.
Btw, I've had second thoughts about including photography (suggestion by Danik). Two technical problems should make us abandon this idea, I guess. First, even many of my clients (who should be in the know however) do not understand the difference between high resolution and low resolution photos. This difference, in very simple terms, is that you can't print low res photos if you want a neat & professional-looking result. So I'm afraid many photos might not be sufficiently high-res for print, and it would be heartbreaking to accept a wonderful photo only to tell people later "Sorry, it's a no-go". The second problem is financial: as soon as you include color in a book, the sales price goes up immensely. Meaning a book including color photos would be too expensive for potential buyers. Just my 2 euro-cents of thinking, though.
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Why canīt it just be a manual or a handbook of how to analyze different kinds of literature in-depth? From epics to diaries. Literature in all shapes and sizes. It wouldnīt require colored photos, and it would reduce the cost. There is certainly a demand for it by, primarly, students, but also other entousiasts who want to analyze literature. The examples in this manual could partially consist of texts that have been published on this forum.
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How to analyze them? That sounds like criticism needing scholarship. Maybe that would be better in a second project.
Has a manual or handbook to analyze literature ever been released in general so far?
Since this forum is dedicated to literature, there could be something everyone here can contribute with in some form or another. If the final product more informative than what is currently out on the market, a publisher make print it. The other alternative would be to self-publish it online.
Local ordindance. No door to door drumming. Don't worry. The engraved invitations came in the form of links to the poems of others we provided earlier. The practice became so laborious that I asked all hands at poesy to consider themselves invited to the submission party. No need for booster shots. This is a party you cannot crash. Crashers welcome. That is about as far as you can go. You durst not beg people to come to your party, or even the crashers will not show up. Hmmm...In fact, they are late right now.
Given the effort and expense it is to launch such a project, I still envisage a book that would be as representative as possible of the whole LitNet community and not only of the poets, although they probably are the most numerous.
There are 4 kinds of major contributions on this site: poems, prose (mainly short stories), visual art (mainly photos) and discussions (religious, literary, scientific, general themes ). Unfortunately there can be no discussion part, as there are only threads, no essays. As for the photos I understand Dieterīs points, but I wouldnīt put the idea completely down before having a good look at the thread "Pictures taken by you" which is one of my favorites.Many pictures there go far beyond amateur photos. Maybe we could find a compromise there.
Something that I think is not a LitNet product, at least not up to this time, is a literary handbook. But there are already several good ones in English.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Dieter has already said there is very little expense, as long as we stay away from high resolution color photos. We incur all kinds of expenses if we print photos, is how I took it.
No one is saying there are not other artists on the forum. Keep it simple. All it serves is to confuse the issue. It has proven difficult enough to get the poetry going now we are supposed to introduce all these additional difficulties. That is the way not to get the project done.
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