Some facts about my writing career just resurfaced as I emptied out old boxes:
My first published fiction piece was in an artsy mag called Chimera. - 1983
I wrote a pretty funny short story that I only sent out once back in 1986. Last night, I sent it out again.
For a time, I wrote poetry. - 1981
Comedian Tom Dreesen, who used to open for Frank Sinatra, rejected three jokes I sent him. - 1981
From 1985 to 1988, I sent out a lot of short stories, all rejected. The whole process was labor-intensive, from typing to return envelopes to postcards signifying arrival, to finding out months later that magazines had closed or moved without a forwarding address or weren't interested in what I had to sell. Then I decided whether to rewrite the stories or press on. (That last aspect hasn't changed.)
I have a lot of old boxes. - 2010.
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And you're not going to share any of your old poems here?
They belong in an old box.
I think I could write better ones now.
You sling poetry, yes?
I sling it, yes. I'm terrible cruel to it that way. I'm sure a real poet would be appalled.
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