Romance

There’s the romantic notion of hiding somewhere in my pick-up truck and writing something; but then I get it written and there’s “What now?”

That I know of, that question has these outcomes:

1.     Start a fire with it.

2.     Call it good and throw it in a drawer.

3.     Recycle the paper.

4.     Revise and print the revision on the back.

5.     Flip the paper over and print my next story on the back.

6.     Find a way to publish.

Publishing is un-romantic, but interesting.

I spend a lot of time in steps 4 & 5.

In Step #6, I have started to develop a “Literary Platform”. First, I have been graciously given some publishing space in the “Little Mags” – Literary Magazines and Journals - many of which are private enterprise, others edited by Universities. Thanks to the opportunity the Little Mags, I have got a short “publishing history” that dates to April 2020.

In February 2021, I started to develop an on-line presence with joecsmolen.com. For me, the mechanics of joecsmolen.com is a mass of unfamiliar terms, conditions and buttons to push – some of which can have vast and terrifying consequences to my pretensions at professionalism.

joecsmolen.com involves constant content input and communications with subscribers and search engines via roughly weekly Posts and approximately monthly “newsletters”. Beyond that, there will be linking-to and importation of YouTube content managed by phi@phiarchitect.com.