Mark Budman

Mark Budman
Birthday
May 31
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Mark Budman's works have appeared or are about to appear in such magazines as Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, The London Magazine, Midamerican Review, McSweeney's, Turnrow, Connecticut Review, the W.W. Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of a flash fiction magazine Vestal Review. His novel My Life at First Try was published by Counterpoint Press to wide critical acclaim. He co-edited the anthology You Have Time for This from Ooligan Press; a new anthology is forthcoming in 2011 from Persea Books. http://markbudman.net

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MARCH 4, 2011 12:28PM

Why do you write? For writers only. No one else should peek.

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Caption: "There are better ways to make career."

Is writing the best career for you? It’s hard work, it pays nothing or close to nothing and it’s not that glamorous. What’s glamorous about sitting in front of your computer, getting the carpal tunnel syndrome and ruining your vision and your posture? The competition is fierce and the editors throw a “dear writer” rejection form in your face. Many people pay for the writing courses and books or even to vanity press publishers so they could get the coveted title of a writer. Why do it? Is this an equivalent of a drug high? You just have to do it even if it ruins your health, family life and finances?

Do you do it because birds do it and bees do it?

Why do I do it? Well. I thought you’d never ask. Why do I breath if I have do die anyway? That’s my answer. Yours?

 

 

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I peeked. I'm sorry. I have atoned by rating it.
Why do I do it? The question supposes that a writer has any other choice. I'd do it even if no one ever read a single word.
Actually, Mark, I don't find writing ruins my posture...in fact I find I can practice a good meditating posture while writing...I have never suffered from carpal tunnel and I type 120 words a minute, my vision was always bad anyway...I am rarely rejected...I believe in what I do and the pay is good considering I'm doing what I love more than anything in the world...(unless my wife were alive again and we were cooking together, making love, or walking along the pier...) xox
Brassawe,

The apology is accepted. Peek often. I give you a personal license.
Library,

We all have choices.
Robin,

You are a better posture writer than me. And as for being rarely rejected, wow, I am proud of you.