I've been thinking just lately that it would be nice to reanimate the dormant BEATNIK. We were going great guns there for a while, attracting high quality poets and writers to the page. Then my move came and disrupted normal internet service. I am, for reasons detailed in earlier posts, typing these entries from libraries and internet cafes and I may have to be doing that for some time yet. So obviously I only have a limited amount of time at the computer. If I were a rich man I could sit at the computer all day. But I don't have a lot of money and I have to spend half my time working to acquire the money I've got. And some of the submissions I was playing with--well, all of them--presented difficulties when it came to the cut-and-paste process that only long and patient labour would have surmounted. You know how it is if you've tried it. You paste a well-spaced poem and it reproduces on the new page as one long sentence that you have to arduously chop up again.
And there was the small problem that I lost several quality submissions that were sitting in my email inbox when I changed internet providers (well, when I ditched the one I had to save money).
But the urge to put Blue Fred to work in some way remains. Anybody know how I can kill those cut-and-paste deveils so the process of posting a poet's submissions doesn't take longer than a beleaguered editor can afford?
2 comments:
a thought -
if a new blog was begun; and would-be contributers, after having passed your rigorous examination were given the password to that blog, they could post their own.
honor among beats? yeah, I think so.
could a person who had the password give it to his friend? only under penalty of of being spurned by the community. yeah, but what if she was great looking AND a helluva poet? a possible exception might be made. could a person (who had the password) post the poem of a friend? uh, sure, I guess so, if it's a good poem and proper credit is given and she's great looking.
would you still be editor? more like guiding light, I think.
- R.
go for it!
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