Thread: Syren

Hope all are well~

Poet with some published work, still working on that elusive first book. Your advice is appreciated, of course, I could use plenty of rubs to get to that brilliant shine.

Expanding into my first novel as well, so likely I'll troll a few different threads around the boards. Great to see a place for writers, from what I've read so far, the give and take looks fantastic. Well done crew, you had me easily.

Cheers all,

//Sy

Welcome to the forums Syren Congrats on the published poetry and good luck with the novel. Hope you enjoy it here; it's really a great place!

Welcome to WF Syren! This place is great, and I think you will enjoy it.

Welcome, kudos on the published work and should we lock up the men or am I making a terrible pun??

(Josh) - dude.

you're lucky to have such an interesting name.. sorry I couldn't resist I got taliban jokes with my name.. that was fun..

sorry about that though, and I must say I'm impressed you've been responding to others work not just posting your own.

lol... man that was a bit of goober. *edited

//Sy

Welcome to the forums, Syren!

If you have any questions feel free to contact a mentor.

Hello to you, Syren, and welcome to the forums!


Nickie

Thanks PG, will do! And thank you very much Nickie, very kind of you!



//Sy

your making me fall in love..mmm rum... that's a good thought to keep me going throughout the day.

welcome to our happy not-so-little family, sy!

as i mentor many aspiring poets who'd like to be published some day, would you mind mentioning where you were able to get your work accepted?... i'm sure it would be inspiration and hope-retaining for others who've yet to reach that pinnacle...

love and hugs, maia

A fellow rum-runner eh kali? Brava! I was going to mention my tonic of choice to Ms. Vodka, but I think the irony would last only as long as it took for her to completey bash me with a bottle of her own choosing... heh. Glad to see there are those out there that enjoy the smoother things in life!

Mamma!

I just looked at your site and wow! Amazing stuff! It's in muh favorites, I'll be swimming through it in the weeks to come, happily happily! I love your style, the zen and tao of it all, loved 'A Prayer for Peace', 'attained' and 'becalmed'... which were the first three I marked. Amazing stuff, the straight lines and messages are so well done, the form so uniquely superb! If you don't mind, I'd like to email some close and personal friends the link. I can tell me and you are gonna get along smashingly!

To your question, I've been published in different mags (local market mainly) and ezines aplenty, with a bunch of dopey non-paying anthologies, though Noble House is courting a few of my poems for a true anthology, though the pay sounds like little more than token. Ah well...

A great resource for those looking to publish can be found here:

http://www.pw.org/links_pages/

It's where I started, and still visit now and then. Mags, internships, fellowships, etc., plenty to hunt and peck through. I've told many that the line to a book is most often Mags, Journals, Column (if lucky), Agent. That is, for poets and even then for poets with a solid amount of work behind them.

Which is where I'm at and why I'm here... to refine all the work behind me and see where I can grow. Thanks for the chance WF, and the welcome!

//Sy

PS -mamma, I have a couple that might interest you, PM alright?

It's official, the no-flood policy is killin me. How long is the acceptable norm folks? I mean, I'm thinking three hours with no one posting is sufficient... right? Right?

If I'm stuck to one a day then so be it, just let me know the proper steps to this dance... before I get myself in trouble, pretty please?

don't worry about it so much if you get out of line a mentor or mod will say something but generally its a fairly laid back site.

and dear god rum's good... mount gay is my favourite, dark rum (do not like the white crap especially bacardi) but its reallylight and doesnt lay heavy on you. well other than on the mind..