Comments on: Life lessons learned on April Fool’s Day http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/ You too can be an unemployed writer. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:55:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: The Blog of Wistar Watts Murray » I actually wasn’t named after the shoot-em-up neighborhood in L.A. http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2496 The Blog of Wistar Watts Murray » I actually wasn’t named after the shoot-em-up neighborhood in L.A. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:54:44 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2496 [...] promise that I wouldn’t take it to the streets. But around these parts I am limited to blogging my vengeance on the Virginia Quarterly Review website. My lifestyle is basically Boyz in the Hood, but with [...] […] promise that I wouldn’t take it to the streets. But around these parts I am limited to blogging my vengeance on the Virginia Quarterly Review website. My lifestyle is basically Boyz in the Hood, but with […]

]]> By: Maud Newton: Blog http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2467 Maud Newton: Blog Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:00:24 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2467 [...] made out of balloons make Wistar Watts Murray’s list of things not to include in fiction submitted to an MFA program at a prestigious university affiliated with [...] […] made out of balloons make Wistar Watts Murray’s list of things not to include in fiction submitted to an MFA program at a prestigious university affiliated with […]

]]> By: Christos http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2252 Christos Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:46:32 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2252 that shit story is good. and it has a happy ending too! shit stories should always have a happy ending. that shit story is good. and it has a happy ending too! shit stories should always have a happy ending.

]]> By: maiaoming http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2147 maiaoming Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:20:37 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2147 a) I got an MFA in poetry from GMU and it ruined my writing for a good long while. Everyone was so friggin competitive and anal and trendy it stunk. Your post made me laugh. Feel glad to have skipped it! Go get a degree in something else and then you'll have something to write about other than writing about writing, which some might find meta - cool but is really solipsistic and boring. and i can't spell anymore, either. b) ted genoways is a nice guy. a) I got an MFA in poetry from GMU and it ruined my writing for a good long while. Everyone was so friggin competitive and anal and trendy it stunk. Your post made me laugh. Feel glad to have skipped it! Go get a degree in something else and then you’ll have something to write about other than writing about writing, which some might find meta - cool but is really solipsistic and boring. and i can’t spell anymore, either.

b) ted genoways is a nice guy.

]]> By: brooke http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2146 brooke Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:01:56 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2146 wistar, they are dumb. you are better than their program. wistar,

they are dumb. you are better than their program.

]]> By: Wistar http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2135 Wistar Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:27:21 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2135 Hi Ted! I totally recognize you. Luckily I have not hit you with my car/tried to pick you up/cut in front of you in line at the movies. Hi Ted! I totally recognize you. Luckily I have not hit you with my car/tried to pick you up/cut in front of you in line at the movies.

]]> By: Waldo Jaquith http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2133 Waldo Jaquith Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:02:12 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2133 <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/04/03/PHOTOPHILE-bookfest-A.aspx" rel="nofollow">Here's Ted</a>. Here’s Ted.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2122 Elizabeth Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:14:56 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2122 He was the fabulously tall and handsome man standing about 12 feet away from us. I was too short and gnomelike to introduce myself to him. He was the fabulously tall and handsome man standing about 12 feet away from us. I was too short and gnomelike to introduce myself to him.

]]> By: Wistar http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2118 Wistar Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:15:35 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2118 Elizabeth, Ted Genoways was at the party?! I don't even know what he looks like. You didn't see me talking to him, did you? He wasn't the father of one of those little girls I made fun of, was he? Christos, I think you smell wonderful. Like children's artwork. LB, We should start a college where the application process requires putting your foot in your mouth. I will be Dean. You will be Professor of Regrettable Paper Titles. Elizabeth,
Ted Genoways was at the party?! I don’t even know what he looks like. You didn’t see me talking to him, did you? He wasn’t the father of one of those little girls I made fun of, was he?

Christos,
I think you smell wonderful. Like children’s artwork.

LB,
We should start a college where the application process requires putting your foot in your mouth. I will be Dean. You will be Professor of Regrettable Paper Titles.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2117 Elizabeth Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:09:34 +0000 http://www.onestarwatt.com/2008/04/02/life-lessons-learned-on-april-fools-day/#comment-2117 1. I had assumed a, b, and c were precisely what MFA programs were looking for. Todd Solondz' "Storytelling" misled me mightily. 2. Exactly. 3. Good thought. 4. Blogging for VQR?? AWESOME! So why didn't you introduce me to Ted G. the other night? 5. Screw 'em. And apply again next year! 1. I had assumed a, b, and c were precisely what MFA programs were looking for. Todd Solondz’ “Storytelling” misled me mightily.
2. Exactly.
3. Good thought.
4. Blogging for VQR?? AWESOME! So why didn’t you introduce me to Ted G. the other night?
5. Screw ‘em. And apply again next year!

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