OSGOPG: So, this is why you write blogs and exclusive online content for paulgiovanni.com. Why not just send your stuff out to other bigger magazines and papers as well and cover all bases??
PG£:
When writing, the first thing you need to do is to get your voice and your style honed right down.
This takes a long while, and when you're doing it you make lots of stupid and basic mistakes.
I'm still a good 10 or 15 years off my written peak, so I'd rather makes these mistakes in my own time and space and keep my voice close to hand.
With regards to small and indpendent magazines: I find they're very often run and owned by competing writers and/or failed writers - they're also often very closed shops..
Basically, you get a lot of jealous wannabees and never gonnabees who like to take pot shots at your work to make themselves feel better, to make you read more like they write, and/or to damage your VROOOMMM!!!!!
Why I should tolerate competing writers and amateur editors tearing up
and cajouling my work, when the readers, can do that minus the agenda?? Why should I suffer a silly ego burising from other 2 bit writers, when I my readers can
bruise my own silly ego without any help whatsoever??
Sure,
when the only possible exit for young writers was printed
collections, I'd have had no choice but to compromise and collaborate a little more with 'the underground', but
now such limitations don't exist, and with a broadband connection, a
few promo hours a day and good strategic alliances, you can
make your own wide and clever audience, who don't agree
with the antiquated rationale of time and space editing...
OSC0PG: So, basically, it's all their fault??
Well, I can be a complete ego ass to work with, and that can and has caused problems with magazines. Things is, I find it close to impossible to get on with other writers and editors who aren't concentrating on the job. I never fit into the cliches. I don't like the fact I'm not the center of attention, and I don;t like shoddy work. Nowadays, II no longer bother trying to ingratiate myself and instead I get on with the work..
OSCOPG: You love yourself don't you??
PG£: Of course...
OSCOPG: Why do you boast and SHOUT?? You seem to think you're very important..
PG£:
If I had a mainstream or even minor deal, people would be paid to tell
the world how good I am, and no-one would think that strange...
OSCOPG:
But surely that's important - that it's someone else doing the
boasting - someone who knows what they're talking about. You doing it makes you sound corrupt, stupid or an egomaniac..
PG£: I have plenty of people affirming my work - all are strangers, but yes, I'm completely corrupt. I think I'm the only one who's important. Every writer feels the same way. I'm an egomaniac by nature. Why else would i put myself forward as a writer?? |