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

[sirhc-warrior.livejournal.com]

i agree with the goals thingie.

um, probably would make more sense if i explained it.

if you want to write because you love to write, then write. write here, write there, write everywhere! (and eat green eggs and ham; they're good for you)

if you want to write and be published, that's a whole nother sack of turnips. amen to the stuff held back from general linking and to finding committed beta readers and editors instead. amen to the continual submission of pieces to various places, ad infinitum. you're reading nihilstic_kid, nes pa? he's trying to make a living off it, true, but that's the route in store for you if you want to get published. i doubt it's gonna work to lose your blood pressure over rejections.

my god, nick would have exploded into a million pieces if that was the way it went.

Richard Dansky, too - a friend and working writer - intimated a writer can't take rejections personally. you can't take criticism personally. you have to be able to listen to critiques objectively, and still write. and write some more. and yet more writing. i think Rich might be the hardest-working person i know, and i know mike.

if you just love to write, we're here to read. :) but if you want to publish, keep trying. but please don't explode into a million pieces. we'd miss you!

(plus, someone would have to clean it up...)