Comments on: https://webbish6.com/1937/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Walker Pfost https://webbish6.com/1937/#comment-1593 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:09:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/1937/#comment-1593 Hi.

[I stumbled on your blog from a link at Paul Guest’s place. So. That answers that question.]

I live in South Korea, where the economy is even worse (at least the American dollar is strong, for now), but despite having less time for writing, the economic downturn has actually stimulated (ha!) my poetic output, which I find refreshing. I guess it’s the supercharged disgust with how all of it has progressed that makes me alternately find some kind of pulpit and, more often, an escapist refuge in my writing and attempts at publishing.

Which is to say, it hasn’t gotten so bad (for me, at least) that I can’t afford a few submission fees every now and then. But, full-fledged reading season isn’t here yet, so……who knows. Here’s hopin’.

]]> By: ~ https://webbish6.com/1937/#comment-1592 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:23:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/1937/#comment-1592 Has the economic downturn affected your life as a writer? Have you submitted to fewer markets, sent out fewer manuscripts, had less time for writing?

***Hi J9– Hope I get to see you this week!

Good questions!

It’s affected me some what in that I am more careful where I am submitting. I’ve dropped a couple of regular magazine subscriptions (though that doesn’t have anything to do with poetry). I guess I’m trying to save money in other places so I’m trying to have it affect my writing life last.

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