A friend of mine ask me to post thisI am looking for someone that will help me through the final edits for acompilation of short stories. I can pay .50 cents to a dollar per page (12pt. double-spaced) with most stories ranging between 5 and 20+ pages. Thatmay seem meager but in most cases I will receive zilch for a publication orat the very most 50 bucks. This opportunity is for someone that may want tobe a writer, an editor or simply someone that loves to read. I need someonewith superb grammar skill and maybe a reference or two. If you work for copyat The Technician, you are gold.If you do aspire to edit, I will be a solid job reference. If you areanother writer, I may be willing to trade writings after a sample.I write approximately 1 hour per day and I am presently amidst rewrites on a70,000+ word short story compilation, parts of which I will send out toliterary journals asap. My first wave of three stories went out last yearand although I did not have any of them published the editors at McSweeneyswrote and encouraged further submissions. They liked my story but ultimatelyfound that it was not thematically correct for that particular issue. If youknow about literary journals you know that form letters and no comments aremore typical.If you read http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ then you'll get what I do. I am alsoa filmmaker. My website lists some of my films, one was recognized on IFC'sMedia Lab and then promoted on a show dedicated to their short films. Thenews section mentions where I am with writing, at least there you could seewhat I am really about. The link is http://www.robbyhuge.com.What I would like to happen is that we meet once, then email stories with aweek or two turn around. Probably no more than 30-70 pages per month. Itvaries. Then if you have some computer skill, we set up an online transferthrough Paypal or something rather than writing and mailing checks. You canroute that to your bank account and skip the trip.One less trip to the post office means one more page of rewrites for me. Asan act of good faith, I could pay half up front on the stories and we'd gofrom there.I'll also be using poor man's copyright (post) until I register the wholecompilation with a WGA number. Hopefully that would occur by fall.Thank you in advance. Contact Justin at justin.meckes@gmail.com.
1/9/2008 1:32:37 PM
E-mail sent.
1/9/2008 1:38:28 PM
so if your friend asked you to jump off a cliff you would?
1/9/2008 1:42:29 PM
nope
1/9/2008 1:51:48 PM
^^^^ The period at the end of the sentence after the link was hyperlinked, too, and it is screwing it up. FYI.
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