2010 Team Poetry Olympiad Extravaganza

[LadynStFreknBed]

Yes, I believe Amazon Createspace is well worth looking into as a viable self-publishing option. It is possible to self-publish on Amazon with both Kindle and Createspace with no publishing costs.

As for preparing the book for self-publication, it just has to be in PDF format. I have the Adobe Design Premium software for school. That includes Adobe Acrobat Pro that compiles files into PDF documents. If anyone ever needs a file put into PDF format, just email it to me and I'd be happy to run it through the program for you. I plan on doing the cover design for my book as a project in one of my graphic design classes. (I'll probably use Adobe Illustrator for that.)

 

[EroticOrogeny]

There are also lots of free converters to create PDF. Some are online and will come back with a converted file. MS Office usually seems to be able to output PDF - we needed PDF for some of our papers we published. Many theses and dissertations are archived that way, but my recent one (2008) was still paper.

 

[annaswirls]

No, those articles were for one of my freelance writing clients. For eHow, I do articles about mental health (depression, bipolar disorder, treatments, etc.). Demand Studios also provides articles to LiveStrong and a couple other websites not just eHow, but they have more topic options for eHow. The articles are short, but it's a very quick $7.50-$15 a piece. (They send out payments twice a week for the articles you have written.)

oh girl, I have to pay attention to this.
I have been doing a bit of freelance writing for two local magazines and am looking to expand. Thanks for the pointer!

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Well, if you're looking to expand your options, I wrote an article about the different sources of freelance writing jobs: Sources for Freelance Writing Jobs

There's Demand Studios, like I mentioned..also AOL. I prefer Hubpages because you throw your Google AdSense code on there when setting up your profile and you get residual income which could theoretically last forever instead of getting a few bucks when you write the article like you get with Demand Studios. With Hubpages, you can write about whatever you want. I'm working on adding more articles to my Hubpages account right now.

 

[annaswirls]

Well, if you're looking to expand your options, I wrote an article about the different sources of freelance writing jobs: Sources for Freelance Writing Jobs

There's Demand Studios, like I mentioned..also AOL. I prefer Hubpages because you throw your Google AdSense code on there when setting up your profile and you get residual income which could theoretically last forever instead of getting a few bucks when you write the article like you get with Demand Studios. With Hubpages, you can write about whatever you want. I'm working on adding more articles to my Hubpages account right now.

I love you. Sleep then learn.....

 

[UnderYourSpell]

No, those articles were for one of my freelance writing clients. For eHow, I do articles about mental health (depression, bipolar disorder, treatments, etc.). Demand Studios also provides articles to LiveStrong and a couple other websites not just eHow, but they have more topic options for eHow. The articles are short, but it's a very quick $7.50-$15 a piece. (They send out payments twice a week for the articles you have written.)

Pity it's American

 

[Epmd607]

One of my buddy's is up in the Demand Studios and Alternative Content deal. He writes about music everyday for a couple different sites. I thought about doing it, but it would take up a few hours after work that I don't know that I have right now.

 

[Epmd607]

Back to me for a minute I got approved to launch my project on this arts site. I wrote this verse novel and am trying to get the first book of it published. If anyone wants to check it out, or just see me on video off the cuff and a little awkward, here you go:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1885011288/a-verse-novella-poetry-meets-fictionagain

I don't think it's a commercial site or an actual business.

Actually, just any general thoughts on it would help me out. I'm not really sure a verse novel is the sort of thing that gathers enough interest to fund itself like painting, film, or a musical project. Can't hurt to try.

I'm gonna sign up for poetry lessons and Chrissy's gonna get your xbox so you can come over and play. Editors are expensive.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

One of my buddy's is up in the Demand Studios and Alternative Content deal. He writes about music everyday for a couple different sites. I thought about doing it, but it would take up a few hours after work that I don't know that I have right now.

What I do is write different versions of the same article. See, I have my own websites, PTSDcentral.com, my blogs, & goalplan.org (still pretty new), and I write for Hubpages, Demand Studios, and clients. So, I do a quick search for good keywords on a topic for a Demand Studios assignment or my websites on Wordtracker (just the free keyword tool) and also the Google AdWords tool to make sure they aren't penny-per-click keywords. (I think I have step-by-step instructions with links on my Path From Poverty blog which I started by request from friends of mine who kept asking me questions about it.) As I write the article I write a second and sometimes a third version of it for Hubpages or my websites.

Unfortunately, I often get assignments for clients on topics that I don't want to put on my Hubpages and are not related to my websites. The assignment that I just received from a client last night-- about 30 articles on keywords about seatcovers. Yes, ladies and gentlemen- seatcovers. Wake me when I'm finished.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Just as a matter of interest what occupation do you put on your passport? author?

 

[bflagsst]

What I do is write different versions of the same article. See, I have my own websites, PTSDcentral.com, my blogs, & goalplan.org (still pretty new), and I write for Hubpages, Demand Studios, and clients. So, I do a quick search for good keywords on a topic for a Demand Studios assignment or my websites on Wordtracker (just the free keyword tool) and also the Google AdWords tool to make sure they aren't penny-per-click keywords. (I think I have step-by-step instructions with links on my Path From Poverty blog which I started by request from friends of mine who kept asking me questions about it.) As I write the article I write a second and sometimes a third version of it for Hubpages or my websites.

Unfortunately, I often get assignments for clients on topics that I don't want to put on my Hubpages and are not related to my websites. The assignment that I just received from a client last night-- about 30 articles on keywords about seatcovers. Yes, ladies and gentlemen- seatcovers. Wake me when I'm finished.

You get paid a flat fee per article?

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Just as a matter of interest what occupation do you put on your passport? author?

me? You're so silly, Annie. You know me. I don't need a passport to check my mail. For forms, I put "freelance writing." For taxes, it's like self-employed writer or something like that.

You get paid a flat fee per article?

From Demand Studios and clients, I get paid a flat fee per article. Sometimes for my clients, I do partial fee and part revenue sharing. I strongly prefer revenue sharing. My clients are SEO experts. Of course for my websites, I get ad revenue.

I do not have a standard flat fee that I charge per article for everyone. It depends on the assignment. Most of the articles that I write are only 350 words which is pretty typical for web content. Right now because of my disability, I can't work outside of the house so I tend to take almost every assignment that comes my way even though it may only be for $3.50/article. That will change when my bf gets back from Iraqistan and I am not so hard up for cash.

 

[Tzara]

Back to me for a minute I got approved to launch my project on this arts site. I wrote this verse novel and am trying to get the first book of it published. If anyone wants to check it out, or just see me on video off the cuff and a little awkward, here you go:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1885011288/a-verse-novella-poetry-meets-fictionagain

I don't think it's a commercial site or an actual business.

Actually, just any general thoughts on it would help me out. I'm not really sure a verse novel is the sort of thing that gathers enough interest to fund itself like painting, film, or a musical project. Can't hurt to try.

Well, the words "verse novel" when juxtaposed like that probably send editors for commercial publishing houses off to hide in the loo, for fear you'd try to chat them up over watery martinis and pigs-in-a-blanket at some industry soirée. But it seems like an interesting concept. Good luck with it, anyway.

The concept of that funding site is interesting.

Hope you make it work for you.

 

[bflagsst]

Well, the words "verse novel" when juxtaposed like that probably send editors for commercial publishing houses off to hide in the loo, for fear you'd try to chat them up over watery martinis and pigs-in-a-blanket at some industry soirée. But it seems like an interesting concept. Good luck with it, anyway.

The concept of that funding site is interesting.

Hope you make it work for you.

Tzara, you know your Pushkin, right? Are there any other novels that resemble Eugene? I've searched for a couple years, can't find anything similar. We couldn't really call Eugene an epic, I don't think. Jack Kerouac probably thought about writing his stories in verse.

I'm not really looking to deal with any publishers, just want to get a small book printed for whoever seems interested in the next 80 days.

 

[Tzara]

Tzara, you know your Pushkin, right? Are there any other novels that resemble Eugene? I've searched for a couple years, can't find anything similar. We couldn't really call Eugene an epic, I don't think. Jack Kerouac probably thought about writing his stories in verse.

I'm not really looking to deal with any publishers, just want to get a small book printed for whoever seems interested in the next 80 days.

Vikram Seth's first novel, The Golden Gate, is written entirely in Onegin Stanzas, including the Dedication, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents and About the Author sections. It's quite charming, though probably very dated--it was written in 1986, and chock full of yuppie San Francisco speak from that era. I read it a long time ago, so perhaps am remembering it through the kind of memory fog that distorts one's judgment.

John Gardner's Jason and Medeia is a book-length verse narrative as well, written in quite lengthy, unrhymed lines (13-14 beats, more or less). My copy labels it "Fiction" on the back cover, but I think Gardner referred to it as a poem. His academic specialty was, if I remember correctly, epic poetry.

There are, I know, a number of other examples, though it's kind of a fine distinction deciding whether some particular work is a verse novel or an epic poem--both tell stories in verse, so how one distinguishes the two is a little difficult.

I think, anyway.

 

[bflagsst]

Vikram Seth's first novel, The Golden Gate, is written entirely in Onegin Stanzas, including the Dedication, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents and About the Author sections. It's quite charming, though probably very dated--it was written in 1986, and chock full of yuppie San Francisco speak from that era. I read it a long time ago, so perhaps am remembering it through the kind of memory fog that distorts one's judgment.

John Gardner's Jason and Medeia is a book-length verse narrative as well, written in quite lengthy, unrhymed lines (13-14 beats, more or less). My copy labels it "Fiction" on the back cover, but I think Gardner referred to it as a poem. His academic specialty was, if I remember correctly, epic poetry.

There are, I know, a number of other examples, though it's kind of a fine distinction deciding whether some particular work is a verse novel or an epic poem--both tell stories in verse, so how one distinguishes the two is a little difficult.

I think, anyway.

There's definitely been epic poetry and very long poems in the recent past, I remember this one book called Garbage I saw in a big bookstore.

For epic poetry I go by Joseph Campbell standards. The Hero's journey and all that: separation, initiation, return. The work should probably have some cultural significance, represent a change. Howl is almost epic-like. I suppose there might still be a verse novel with an epic hero and heroic deeds, but I'd have to check out these books you mention. My book doesn't really have any of the traditional epic characteristics, there's maybe one heroic deed, a little cultural conflict, but I don't think that it would qualify as an epic because it's more about the inward than outward.