Jrb599
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A friend of mine ask me to post this
I am looking for someone that will help me through the final edits for a
compilation of short stories. I can pay .50 cents to a dollar per page (12
pt. double-spaced) with most stories ranging between 5 and 20+ pages. That
may seem meager but in most cases I will receive zilch for a publication or
at the very most 50 bucks. This opportunity is for someone that may want to
be a writer, an editor or simply someone that loves to read. I need someone
with superb grammar skill and maybe a reference or two. If you work for copy
at The Technician, you are gold.
If you do aspire to edit, I will be a solid job reference. If you are
another writer, I may be willing to trade writings after a sample.
I write approximately 1 hour per day and I am presently amidst rewrites on a
70,000+ word short story compilation, parts of which I will send out to
literary journals asap. My first wave of three stories went out last year
and although I did not have any of them published the editors at McSweeneys
wrote and encouraged further submissions. They liked my story but ultimately
found that it was not thematically correct for that particular issue. If you
know about literary journals you know that form letters and no comments are
more typical.
If you read http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ then you'll get what I do. I am also
a filmmaker. My website lists some of my films, one was recognized on IFC's
Media Lab and then promoted on a show dedicated to their short films. The
news section mentions where I am with writing, at least there you could see
what I am really about. The link is http://www.robbyhuge.com.
What I would like to happen is that we meet once, then email stories with a
week or two turn around. Probably no more than 30-70 pages per month. It
varies. Then if you have some computer skill, we set up an online transfer
through Paypal or something rather than writing and mailing checks. You can
route that to your bank account and skip the trip.
One less trip to the post office means one more page of rewrites for me. As
an act of good faith, I could pay half up front on the stories and we'd go
from there.
I'll also be using poor man's copyright (post) until I register the whole
compilation with a WGA number. Hopefully that would occur by fall.
Thank you in advance. Contact Justin at justin.meckes@gmail.com.  1/9/2008 1:32:37 PM
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