OOC : A curiosity, a whine.

[sythyry]

(This is all OOC.) I don't often submit things for publication. (I dunno what, if anything, to do with the Herethroy Love Story Novel That Needs A Title, but that's a harder question.) But an ezine I heard about had an interesting theme: write a 300-word excerpt from a nonexistant work, to be published as a fragment. Inspired by the fragments of the Necronomicon and the King in Yellow, I presume. They didn't have to be fiction, or even in any extant language.

So I tossed together a bit of oddness. I should have known better: I am allergic to the very name of the ezine. Anyways, it got rejected. There's not a lot of other market for such things, so here it is... afterwards, there's an angsty little survey.

[From "Tsurallaa Sykku", a collection of traditional Vairihani advertisements with facing English translations]

KASKAUN (title): [A common name for a pet rabbit, in the optional/possible future form]

Mihaunnu kylly chaioi	At some point in the near future, we will fail to understand
Atsully kyrryat 'toi.	the desired proportions of our privelege (atoi)/life (otoi)
Ksaksauitellen too	Neither learning more about sacred cabinet-making
Chero vyellenoto	Nor finding several new and brightly colored sexual partners
Mirri	will
Psirri	be able to restore all the lacking pleasures/contentments after they have been so terribly eroded by constant exposure to thick salt tears,
Tallasessat yoto.	as you already understand.
Kammenat psasella tive	There's no use
Rauen nirnaanat nanive	Making pilgrimages to your beloved birthplace, from which you have long departed,
Loipsertele hanaprissa.	For it has been delivered to your tribe's traditional enemies as weregeld for the crimes of your ancestors.
Koi chavenka kanvenkissa	Partial paralysis induced by eating too much underripe fruit
Mirri	will
Tirri	render futile
Tar tirtavattissa!	All your performances of vigorous country kissing-dances.
Maane mepsaakaan maelle	Drinking the hot musky words from the dry pages adorned with coiled illuminations drawn in ink or semen voided by the poetic squids of yesteryear
Maakenmaa psysala selle.	will not melt long-established ice glaciers of ennui into an ocean of passionate blood.
Vaakara raakyi raakyao	Nonetheless, a pet rabbit, small and happily furred,
Vaakanka Kasta takyao'	Which you can name "Kastyie", as is traditional for pet rabbits, if you so wish,
Mirri	will
Ksirri	diminish those aspects of your soul which are receptive to despair
Vaaktenkrastattak vao	and can be served as a side dish if, by some misfortune, it dies before it has done so.

[OOC: Grr! This was gonna be an actual poll, but I couldn't persuade that to work either.] So what should I do about this? Write more stuff like that (or other views of alienness) and post to LiveJournal? Try again at the allergic ezine? Put non-Sythry stuff in the bard_bloom account, and keep sythyry for Sythyry? Write more Sythyry and things like that? Apologize to the bunnies? Stop moping and whining?

Comments

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

I think what you should do about all of this entirely depends on what your goals are...

I think that if you want to submit pieces you're posting on LJ for publication elsewhere, then you should lock them as friends-only posts because a lot of places consider things that appear on websites to be published as far as "do we take reprints? no!" is concerned.

As far as what you should post where... that's also dependant entirely on you. Do you want to keep Sythyry's journal IC? If so, then keep it that way and post whatever you want in the other journal.

I would never apologize to the bunnies. Honest.

And as far as the e-zine is concerned... Roach has particular tastes and particular ideas; that can be said of most editors. Roach is also more willing, than most, to give feedback (at least she was when she was producing Jackhammer). If you want to write more pieces of fictional books, then by all means, do so. If you want to see them published somewhere, then by all means, submit them (and yes, this is a pretty limited market niche). You might hit on one that floats Roach's boat.

[hypothermya.livejournal.com]

amen to the locked entries....i forgot to mention that if any magazine wants to publish, it will likely want first serial rights, and depending on its market, it will want these rights to be international or national....e publication is considered international and that kinda kills any chance at selling first rights anywhere.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

*nodnods to Aynjel and Hypothermia* Definitely right.
I don't put anything I want to publish on the web.