Just finished Googling the life cycle of a Cheeto? Become a paper mache wizard? Looks like you’re a candidate for some structure in the ol’ writing life. Four times a year, RATS will have the opportunity to observe some real writing deadlines.
Here’s how things will go down:
- You sign up to read a manuscript (no more than 50 pages of prose per deadline; 20 for poetry)
- You commit to typing up at least three pages of feedback
- You turn in your manuscript on the next deadline:
- December 1st, 2006 (our very first!)
- March 1st, 2007
- June 1st, 2007
- October 1, 2007
You won’t know who you read or who reads you, which will give all of us a chance to have nonfriends tell us how amazing we are without the awkward obligation. RATS can join anytime throughout the year. And once a manuscript swap is complete, just e-mail if you’d like to fall off the deadline wagon.
OTHER D-WORDS:
deep-dyed
Demavend
Dineh
diseuse
doctorfish
dummkopf
dysteleology
Everyone wants to know about Cheetos, but we’d rather read your book instead.
E-mail amp2119@columbia.edu to sign up!
