An online lit magazine should be a daily, like a blog with an editor and an editorial policy. Each day of the month (or maybe five or six days a week), each month of the year, give people one poem or story or picture or review. Make each day a special issue devoted to one person and one of that person's works. Run series. Maybe reserve certain days of the week for certain types of work. Schedule (and announce) certain pieces for certain days, so people have something to look forward to. Issue print compilations if bookshelves are your game. With 365 days to fill, you would need something like 30 or 40 people submitting ten good things each. It could be done.
But if you were, for some loony reason, to run an online monthly, make it a moonthly monthly: issue it exactly on the new (or full) moon, with special issues for meteor storms and eclipses. And have a mailing list (with sign-up instructions in an easy-to-find spot) to remind everyone once a month that you are still in operation, despite there having been no changes to your site over the previous 30 days.
But if you were, for some loony reason, to run an online monthly, make it a moonthly monthly: issue it exactly on the new (or full) moon, with special issues for meteor storms and eclipses. And have a mailing list (with sign-up instructions in an easy-to-find spot) to remind everyone once a month that you are still in operation, despite there having been no changes to your site over the previous 30 days.
This entry was posted by eeksypeeksy
on Sunday, May 23, 2004 at 8:57 PM.
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At 9:37 AM,so are you going to start one then?
At 10:39 AM,
I would love to, I think, and I think I could do it with a little start-up time, but I don't think I have the contacts or, more importantly, the gall: there are so many web sites calling themselves "literary magazines" now, I can't convince myself the world needs one from me.
Also, I'd end up having to say no to people I like because their poems aren't quite the magazine's kind of poem or aren't quite good enough instances of the kind I want in the magazine. For example, maybe I read their blogs all the time and I like what they write where they write it, but maybe I wouldn't necessarily publish their stuff, and maybe they would feel bad about that. Maybe maybe.
And some people would hate it and laugh at it and me, so there would also be that pressure, as if I don't have enough people laughing at me.
Maybe I would grow a tough exoskeleton and learn to ooze a poisonous secretion when bitten, but I don't know if it would be worth it.
At 12:29 PM,
Then again...
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