Happy New Year! Angie and Elizabeth follow their “what are you working on” opening into a deep dive into the art and systems of submitting your work to literary journals, as Elizabeth has begun to do. This includes learning the markets, curating your own backlog, rejection, and representing a writer who is not as good as you are now–the you who wrote your finished work. They touch on the importance of quantity over quality for certain goals. And in “Steal This,” Angie explains how we can use math explorations to open our minds to multiple ways of illustrating information, opening to all the tools possible for a given problem.

Links in this episode:

Tiny Love Story

Submittable

Rankings of 500 Lit Mags

Lea Page podcast

Stockard Channing reading the Ramona the Pest books

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Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival–everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.

The hosts:

Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.

Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.