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Visit Speculative Faith, where last Friday I posted on M. Night Shyamalan’s film, LADY IN THE WATER. The movie got some cutting reviews. But I think fantasy lovers might find something to like in there.
Read: Archetypes and Spiritual Gifts in LADY IN THE WATER: The Story that Saves a Life
If you like a bit of storybook fantasy with your weight loss efforts, try this new blog:
Thanks to Josh V for this link: Duotrope’s Digest (Markets for Writers).
Here are the results for my search for “short story” in “fantasy” in “any medium” at “any pay scale”.
Easy to use, you fill in the particulars, and–voila–the links appear before your eyes. You’ll want to bookmark this one or link to it on your sidebar (as I plan to. They also have a submission tracker, and by reporting where you submit and what your response was (revision, rejection, acceptance), you can help them keep up with the markets and help OTHER writers (and you). So, register. Participate. If you have submissions out there, enter them into the submission tracker. When you get replies, enter the results. It helps the broader writing community!
SOLIDARITY, SCRIBES AND POETS!
And I think it’s so useful to me and my fellow writers, that I donated ten bucks to their budget. If you have a paypal account and think this is a worthy tool for scribes such as we are, then drop in a buck or five, eh?
But… donate first to DKA , cause, well, we still haven’t make a big enough dent on fundraising for next year’s budget. You can can support us by entering the contest or buying stuff from our store, or just donating via Paypal (see the button on our sidebar). Or, hey, do all three–enter, buy, donate! Visit http://www.dkamagazine.com and lend us some support.
Visit the “Heaven vs. Hell” Art Show.
I recognized three of the pieces–Pixy’s (Rachel Marks), Sara Butcher’s, and Duncan Long’s.
My fave is by Carmen Keys, clearly inspired by the multiple-eyed, six-winged creature of Revelation. I see it and I wanna sing Miss Angie’s whack little ditty–which is one of my fave “get silly in the car with praise” songs–“100 Million Eyeballs.”
And, because I love that kooky song, I’m gonna share the lyrics.
Sing along with me now!
Something to see now is those who are His
Living ones with different heads
Six wings
One hundred eyeballs
Day and night they never stop singing…
Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
Laying down on the floor
Giving their honour
They cover their heads
They cover their eyes
They cover their feet
And still they fly
<strong>You’re so weird to me</strong>
Still singing
Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
The whole earth is full of Your glory, Your glory
The whole earth is full of Your glory, Your glory
They may be adding more, since they’re open to subs until Easter 2007.
Drop by and read “Speculative Poetry: The Biblical Truth Meets the Fantastical Imagination.”
Here’s a snippet:
This is your cubicle
You’ll be cataloging
“Earth—Lit—Speculative Poetry”
Yeah, after it became all the rage—
their songs went out on every ship
Everyone who writes and reads and enjoys speculative poetry has to smile at that last stanza from Karen A. Romanko’s “Bibliotheca Temporis” (Dragons, Knights & Angels, Issue 31, April 2006). Don’t we wish it would become “all the rage” and that spacefaring ships would take it out even further than our wild, little world.
If you like science fiction and fantasy with spiritual themes and elements, then maybe you’ve already heard of the CSFF Blog Tour. If not, visit their official site. If you’re a Christian enthusiastic about SF, and if you have a blog, you can join and help promote this particular genre. The official site is at www.csffblogtour.com, and it’s updated by Tina Kulesa, one of the blog tour participants.
This month’s focus is on Jeff Gerke–former editor at various CBA publishing houses–who has created a comprehensive (though still formative) website on matters relating to Christian Speculative Arts–stories, novels, graphic novels, art, manga, etc. It’s called WHERE THE MAP ENDS.
If you’d like a chance to win some prizes, visit Mirathon blog, where three prizes donated by Jeff Gerke, including a five-page critique, are up for grabs.
Well, it’s not like I absolutely NEEDED another blog, is it?
I just wanted to make sure I could post at some wordpress blogs where I was having trouble not being “signed in.”
Plus, hey, I like their template selections.
