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But look! here come more stories, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive— A new story out yesterday @NewCritique ICYMI

[Fiction] La Pipa – Jon Doughboy

“I’m in love with Karla though I still think of her first and foremost as Fabi’s wife, apostrophe s, as part of that unit because I met Fabi first, fell in love with Fabi first, my friend, my…

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

3 months

Chekhov with some advice for June 7th

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

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Predicting that within ten years there will be an influx of novels written longhand and published as such, highlighting the process, crossed-out plot points, marginalia, doodles, handwriting quirks stylized as proof of the human mind and body at work and not AI

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

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A lot of submission calls asking for “weird” stuff but when you read the description, “cutesy” feels like a better fit. Or maybe “whimsical.” Not knocking whimsy, but wouldn’t call the stuff “weird.” Maybe “slightly odd yet tame” or “quirky but inoffensive.”

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

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It’s easier to imagine a cabal of Iowa MFA clones or NYC trustfunders standing in the way of your literary stardom than acknowledging that no one cares about your little stories and everyone’s just scrabbling for scraps after the table’s been cleared. Who’s open for submissions?

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

5 months

Resubmitting to the mag that has ignored every one of my submissions just to do my part in using up their gmail storage

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

5 months

Deeply frustrated that the writing community hasn’t protested the way the autofiction industrial complex and its lobbying arm has deskilled American writers, deimaginalizing the heartland of American letters and shipping fabulist, metafictional and expansive novel work overseas

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

24 days

Sometimes I finish writing a story and it feels very tight, polished, yet boring. I go back and add some playfulness, a little chaos, loosen it up, and it’s not necessarily better but I like it much more. This is my craft essay.

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

8 months

Got a little story in @APCON_MAG today for any fans of Black Rain, city pop, Akira Terao, and the way we bullshit ourselves and each other

WATCHING BLACK RAIN IN HIROSHIMA

We’re watching Black Rain because I’m an idiot who grew up in the 80s and I’m nostalgic for a Japan that doesn’t exist now and never existed before with the diseased mind of a man who hates his pre…

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

3 months

The editor of one mag publishes the story of an editor at another mag who wrote it in a workshop taught by the editor of a third mag who happens to be the ex of the first editor who went to school with a fourth editor that blurbed the second editor’s book on the condition that…

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

2 months

Each writer defines success for themselves. Personally, success is millions of dollars. Producing beach reads to buy a beach house. Money, money. Second best is publishing 3 more flash fictions online before year’s end while not getting duped into submitting to a writing contest.

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@doughboywrites

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Is it minimalism or is the writer just deeply unobservant, deaf to the richness of language, and devoid of an inner life?

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

10 months

Just got a rejection email from the New Yorker and gmail recommends I respond with “ok, thanks for the reply,” or, “bummer.”

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

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If you use words above a ninth-grade reading level, your writing is pretentious, purple prose. Below a sixth-grade level, you’re an illiterate moron. Middle-school prose is the key to the literary kingdom. #writingtip

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@doughboywrites

9 months

Experimental writer says fuck it, starts first-person, present tense story by showing instead of telling with a scene in medias res

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

2 months

Had two stories out over the weekend ICYMI, a little menagerie with the rat man @APCON_MAG And the insatiable writing snake @LEspritLit

RAT MAN

Rat Man cook good. Today’s menu: hot charred rodent meat, skinned and gutted with precision and love. Fat Norwegian rats, their necks snapped in Cheez Whiz smeared Victor traps. Rat Man is the supe…

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@doughboywrites

2 months

I’ve got some rat meat fresh off the griddle in here

APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL

@APCON_MAG

2 months

APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL presents TOOTH+CLAW 🩸🐶🐱🐭🐻🐯🦁🙈🐷🐸🐺🩸

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@doughboywrites

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Just wrote the rough draft of a story about a monk in the French alps in 1200 and forgot how fun it is to get the hell out of dodge/the endless present

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

8 months

ICYMI had some stories and poems out this week A palaver of statementese @DontsubmitLit Story in @APCON_MAG Four little poems @swampspit_

WATCHING BLACK RAIN IN HIROSHIMA

We’re watching Black Rain because I’m an idiot who grew up in the 80s and I’m nostalgic for a Japan that doesn’t exist now and never existed before with the diseased mind of a man who hates his pre…

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

9 months

I wish my writing process was like this but the more I write, the murkier I become, convinced that authenticity is a delusion, the self a hallucination, and we’re never knowable least of all to ourselves, just cackling in the maze of human ignorance, farting stories in the wind

Kevin Maloney

@kevinrmaloney

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I feel like with every new book I write, I’m hunting my deepest, most authentic self, trying to put words together in a way that no one else could, so that the story and the voice I use to tell it are impossible to distinguish from who I am

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

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Writing and publishing are forms of attention terrorism, neural colonialism. Write something? Say nothing! Give peace a chance and delete your work unread. #writingtip

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

7 months

Writers complain about how hard it is to get ahead but if you stick with it you too can have one of the stories in your linktree get 17 lifetime clicks

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

9 months

I’ve got a little baseball yarn out today in @press_roi with thanks to @FBereaud for finding a spot for it in the moxie issue

Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN BAYBEEEE

@press_roi

9 months

Hello hello and welcome to Sunday! Hope you packed your sass. Moxie 53 is live. #WritingCommunity

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@doughboywrites

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Had a couple of stories out this past week ICYMI Rabbit holes @ErgotPress And Bolaño @DflLit

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

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@doughboywrites

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Wrote a little yarn about Nietzsche and his horse after listening to the latest episode of Entitled Opinions

Nietzsche and van Gogh with Brian Pines

A conversation about the creative peak of Nietzsche and van Gogh in 1888 with Brian Pines, Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco. Song in this episode: “The Ghost” by Fleetwood Mac.…

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don't submit!

@DontsubmitLit

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DIII . @doughboywrites

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

9 months

A 2023 publishing thread but in no particular order: A little essay about how opinions have us @MinorLits Heteronyms having a round @DontsubmitLit Ode to the Chungking express @ricjournal

The I Recommends — Jon Doughboy

Full of admiration, this I is, for people with firm opinions, especially aesthetic judgements, their confidence, the way they take ownership of their opinions saying x is the best short story write…

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

7 months

Had three little stories out this week ICYMI Relationship arithmetic @DontsubmitLit Cultural cement @soyosbooks A shard of awareness @EmergeJournal

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

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Got some food writing masquerading as a short story on the secret menu @midlvlmag

Jon Doughboy – White Manna

White Manna Jon Doughboy We’re in Jersey because my father-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer that keeps spreading from tumor to tumor, throat to spine to every bone, and though the diagnosi…

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

7 months

Got a little intergenerational story churning over at Soyos today:

Soyos Books ~ €5 Sale only at our website!

@soyosbooks

7 months

Amalgamate yourself into our strange new world with Jon Doughboy, now live at Soyos shorts. The Cement Mixer - Jon Doughboy

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

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At Bennington, Ocean Vuong read us poems among the maples. We drank sap water straight from the tap, made a bonfire of our warby Parkers, kindled with the so-called American canon. The haze off the green mountains heralded the dawn of an inclusive, restorative, poetic future

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

2 months

True literature is humorless. Read your story aloud to friends and if there’s a laugh or even the hint of a smile, pack it in, clown. There’s always improv. #WritingTip

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

3 months

Dear Submitter, I apologize for taking 18 months to read and reject your four-hundred word story. I was busy, you see. The climate crisis. Wars. Our platform was starved for content. The right posts needed liking. These virtues don’t signal themselves. Have you seen our tip jar?

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@doughboywrites

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A more interesting publishing model could be a mag with five or so editors who only publish the most polarizing submissions, no consensus candidates, just the stories that floored one editor and revolted or offended or baffled the rest

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

8 months

Can someone interview this guy? It’s such a strange and fascinating grift, I want to hear the logic behind it. A get rich quick scheme where you plagiarize poems and publish them in small lit mags to one day…publish a chapbook that makes no money? To get on an AWP panel?

ONE ART

@OneArtPoetry1

8 months

John Kucera attempted to publish "Summer 1993" in ONE ART. It was then discovered that the poem was published in @redividermag days before it was forthcoming from ONE ART. At that time, we confirmed the other two poems allegedly by Kucera had been previously published

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@doughboywrites

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Got some poems submerged in the latest issue over @swampspit_

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

5 months

I sold my kidney to pay for my MFA at the Art Institute, tap-danced naked in dimes square, got a PO Box in Brooklyn, memorized all the coolest verb tenses, the name ROONEY is tattooed on my left ass cheek, on my right, LERNER—where’s my book deal?

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@doughboywrites

2 months

I’ll be at a defunct Barnes and Noble on the outskirts of St. Louis tomorrow reading my unpublished collected works to an unidentified corpse and the rats gnawing on it. The literary event of the season according to my mother. BYOB. Happy fourth!

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@doughboywrites

3 months

Got a story/creepy trip to the park out today, thanks to @GergleySteve for picking it up

scaffold literary magazine

@scaffoldlitmag

3 months

it's time for scaffold feature #12 , so take a seat at the park and measure the passage of time with this weird and funny story by the brilliant @doughboywrites !

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

9 months

Writing workshop that starts with a Panera charged lemonade enema and you come out of a trance three days later with arrhythmia and a finished novel

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

2 months

Here’s the latest prose entertainment from this hobbyist scribbler (thanks again to Sam for picking it up)

ergot.

@ErgotPress

2 months

"Like my father and my mother before me I work for the Parks Department but not exactly like them because the Park, my particular park, and I have a special bond..." Today on ergot.: 'I am the Park and the Park is Me' by Jon Doughboy ( @doughboywrites )

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@doughboywrites

8 months

Two poems of mine are hanging out today in the bilge over @ballastjournal

Jon Doughboy — ballast

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@doughboywrites

7 months

Writing goals this year: Do a bit Develop this bit into a brand Rub this brand in an agent’s face until they agree to represent me Publish my collected works Grow jaded and bitter promoting said works to an indifferent world Give up writing and buy a ps5

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@doughboywrites

6 months

I have a little foray into horror out today, a rabbit hole of vertigo, with thanks to Sam for the helpful edits on whether shanks cut or puncture or if blood tastes more like iron or tin

ergot.

@ErgotPress

6 months

"Up follows down and vice versa for verily we all must climb in order to more fully, more completely, burrow." Today on ergot.: 'Rabbit Holes' by Jon Doughboy ( @doughboywrites )

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

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The flash submission windows where you have 97 seconds to step on the neck of other submitters and get your shit in feel super sad to me, editors watching rat writers scurrying into their Skinner box for improbable cheese

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@doughboywrites

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Fascinated by the small online mags that charge submission fees but don’t pay writers, just this slow drip of $3 a sub for the masthead to get coffee with, passive literary income like a billboard in a backyard next to a highway

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@doughboywrites

27 days

Once I come up with the perfect sentence to end this 800-word short story, I can finally start living my life

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@doughboywrites

4 months

From the slush pile a hero rose up to…sell three copies of his short story collection

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@doughboywrites

2 months

Girlfriend praised my writing hobby by comparing it to her knitting but I said that wasn’t fair of her because a scarf at least keeps you warm. Traded her two flash fictions for a knit beer koozie. Neither of us is happy with the exchange.

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@doughboywrites

2 months

Nothing worse than reading a story and feeling that the writer had some fun while writing it. Amateur behavior. If it isn’t relentlessly miserable, it isn’t art. Looking for a good time? Go to six flags and leave literature to the chosen, wretched few. #writingtip

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@doughboywrites

3 months

My agent dropped me but her mother loved my novel and from her nursing home sends me coupons to defunct supermarkets for discounts on obscure deli meats. It’s become the most important relationship in my writing life. The halal olive loaf continues to intrigue.

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@doughboywrites

4 months

The Paris Review organized a poetry reading at Guantanamo, the prisoners were resistant to the beauty of my words at first, but after five hours they were moved to a poetic stupor by my slam sonnet where the hole in the ozone layer is a metaphor for neoliberalism

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@doughboywrites

5 months

Worthless? Are you crazy! I’ve gotten over 400 views of my linktree since joining last year, Pulitzers are growing on trees, an agent is hand feeding me prime rib mmm…A new age of literary fiction is dawning, grab your sunglasses kiddos oooh it’s bright oooh

RealClearBooks & Culture

@RealClearBooks

5 months

Twitter Is Almost Worthless for New Writers

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@doughboywrites

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Another doughboy tale out today in the heavy feather review

New Side A Flash Fiction: “Whereupon” by Jon Doughboy

Whereupon because I’ve always wanted to start a story with the word whereupon will arrive the story: let’s say it’s about a man and a woman and the man likes to sing, is compelled to sing because h…

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@doughboywrites

10 months

Growing like a tick fattened on writers’ blood

Becky Tuch

@BeckyLTuch

10 months

Say what 😮

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@doughboywrites

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The one true path to literary success is to submit to only the three most famous literary magazines and accept those annual rejections in silence for decades until you inevitably break through three reincarnations from now with the Cat Person of the 22nd century

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@doughboywrites

4 months

Went to the DMV to renew my literary citizenship but they demanded I complete six flash fiction workshops, pay $200 in submission fees to magazines that only publish solicited work, and confess to how much of my fiction is auto. A long queue of weeping writers kept me company.

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@doughboywrites

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Got a new little story out today @TinyMolecules

twenty — Tiny Molecules

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

5 months

Any small presses looking for volunteer contributing editors? I can commit to 30-40 minutes a week if you’ll publish 1-3 of my novels and a short story collection. I don’t know how to use excel but I can read, type, make a mean grilled cheese etc.

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@doughboywrites

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Stupid Idiot Press—no grandiose theories, no assertions that art or fiction or reading matters, no empathy instruction, just idiots addicted to experimenting with stories and words, hedonistic, compulsive, irrelevant, whistling past the literary graveyard

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@doughboywrites

13 days

Doing an MFA in Pyongyang and writing socialist realism poems about living off the fat of this beautiful North Korean land

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@doughboywrites

19 days

Maybe if I buy a standing desk I’ll finally have my big writer breakout—agent, book deal, money. Could be all this sitting and slumping that’s holding me back. When I finally do my reading at the Strand, my posture will be impeccable.

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@doughboywrites

6 months

These expat tweets as trailers for/distillations of new work are under appreciated poems in their own right

Expat Press

@ExpatLitJ

6 months

Not owners but stewards, know better than to trust a damn fool’s heart, love not meant to be survived on, love was in the air once, people used to enjoy it. No pressure William Tidwell, but you could single-handedly end the romance recession, usher in a renaissance with one poem.

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8 months

Taking out a loan so I can go to AWP and read three poems offsite at an Olive Garden

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@doughboywrites

6 months

Got my first rejection letter with “but it was much discussed by our editors” so I’m pitching my stories now as conversation starters, submitting them to corporate training seminars and speed dating meet-ups in nursing homes

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@doughboywrites

4 months

I’ve got a little essay in here, responses to bookmarked tweets from the masterpieces of Japan account

Farewell Transmission

@frwell_trans

4 months

Issue 2 is alive and well. Full of the good stuff.

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2 months

Anyone written a hot take about how reading literary fiction can solve the male loneliness problem? Feeling down, lads? Reading is the remedy. A sedentary, isolating hobby guaranteed to…

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@doughboywrites

3 months

This was me. Zadie read it, loved it. Said I’m the next Sally Lerner. I’m open to seven figure book deals.

Lucy Douglas

@lucydougtweets

3 months

I have just witnessed the most egregious - violent! - example of “it’s more of a comment than a question”. A young man stood up and told Zadie Smith (!!) that he was having an identity crisis about being a writer and then ASKED HER TO READ HIS SHORT STORY

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@doughboywrites

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I have new story up @DflLit today, Bolano and 2666 inspired (thank you Nick)

D.F.L. LIT

@DflLit

6 months

NEW at DFL: "Bolaño" by Jon Doughboy ( @doughboywrites ) "This was the sort of woman I was drawn to too, a violent woman enraged by her history, a tyrant with nice legs." 🖤🖤❤️

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7 months

Had a story in @DontsubmitLit this week ICYMI And discovered some of Dostoevsky’s lost headlines @GorkoThe

‘Dostoevsky Has a Seizure Pitching Headlines to the Russian Messenger’ by Jon Doughboy

Disgusting, Thieving Germans Disgust with Their Incessant Thievery: An Exposé

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@doughboywrites

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Had a new grotesquerie out a couple of days back ICYMI @ErgotPress

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

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@doughboywrites

9 months

Got a little essay/verb list out today about writing and failing, like Richard Serra meets Lorrie Moore if they were both failures

Write or Die Magazine

@WriteorDieMag

9 months

🖤 Read "A Failed Writer’s Failed Attempt at a Verb List (2023)" by @doughboywrites

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Still haven’t had a single sponsorship deal despite all the product placement in my short stories, the invisible hand of the market is an arthritic claw and capitalism is dead

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@doughboywrites

5 months

I’d like to write a story where all the consequential stuff isn’t shown but we learn from mundane and parallel moments what’s happened, like the reader catches just the barest glimpse of the plot happening on the periphery

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@doughboywrites

4 months

I’ve got a David Berman tribute out today @MaudlinHouse , a mash-up lament

Drinking Margaritas at the Mall

But David, dear David, what if the margaritas are good—ok, not good, we’re at the mall after all, we’re not expecting miracles from our nation’s top mixologists here with the thin salsa and the...

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@doughboywrites

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Just wrote a short story in fourth person point of view using every verb tense in every language, but when I read this masterpiece aloud my workshop says they only hear literature’s agonal breathing

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@doughboywrites

7 months

Reading my poetry at kohl’s and refusing to leave until they give me free underwear, new writing model to make it profitable again, forcing the world to pay writers to not write, give me $30 and the pain, and my poems, will go away

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@doughboywrites

3 months

Got two poems out today @worldhungerlit

WORLD HUNGER MAG

@worldhungerlit

3 months

Today on WORLD HUNGER, @doughboywrites is stood up at the orgy….happens to the best of us.

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One nice thing about twitter is hearing “successful” writers still complaining and feeling victimized, there’s always someone better off, with more books or money or accolades, who’s also somehow incredibly miserable and self-pitying, Roth waiting for the Nobel call, seething

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Publishing stories and poems online like leaving breadcrumbs for readers to follow except the trail leads nowhere, never ends, no loaf, no bakery, just crumbs as far as the eye can see, a crumb horizon

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@doughboywrites

8 months

My approach to submissions too, not to be too precious about it, have fun flinging shit against the wall and seeing what sticks knowing it’s largely an arbitrary lottery and anyway the odds aren’t in your favor and there’s no cash prize because the house, the mag, is broke too

MatGost

@MatGost

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Happy new year writer-friends! 🥳 I sent out more than 200 submissions in 2023 and landed 40+ publications. I spent the year subbing sluttily and I had a blast. Here's what I learned (and why you should try it too):

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@doughboywrites

8 months

My mom’s neighbor died and her body is still in the apartment and my mom thinks this is bad luck. I said it’s good luck in Chinese medicine, making shit up. She sounded relieved. Then said she wanted an egg roll. Later she texted me a picture of her lunch. Feeling like a good son

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@doughboywrites

6 months

Granta has been telling me for years that my particular text isn’t quite right for their magazine, feel like a lovesick idiot kid sitting at his desk on Valentine’s Day waiting for chocolates that will never come

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@doughboywrites

4 months

Had a dirge for David Berman out @MaudlinHouse yesterday ICYMI

Drinking Margaritas at the Mall

But David, dear David, what if the margaritas are good—ok, not good, we’re at the mall after all, we’re not expecting miracles from our nation’s top mixologists here with the thin salsa and the...

maudlinhouse.net

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@doughboywrites

3 months

@WhatHoARat You have two choices before you now. Sebald imitator or Bernhard clone. There is no middle way. Choose wisely

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@doughboywrites

6 months

Sometimes I’m reading fiction and think it’s the most important art form and sometimes I’m like why am I reading all this made up shit and start googling best biographies of American presidents

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

4 months

Had an essay out in @frwell_trans yesterday ICYMI (thanks to Emily for finding a spot for it)

RESPONSES TO BOOKMARKED TWEETS FROM MASTERPIECES OF JAPAN - Farewell Transmission

By Jon Doughboy Responses to Bookmarked Tweets from Masterpieces of Japan Jon Doughboy Sailing Boats Forenoon, by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1926 My friend told me junk rigs were easy to repair and therefore...

farewelltransmission.net

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

19 days

APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL

@APCON_MAG

19 days

“CLICHÉS” – “REALM OF CONTRADICTION” - Cletus Crow "Our desire isn’t burning. It’s a frog corpse zapped alive"

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

2 months

Publishing fewer than five stories a year betrays a poor work ethic. Publishing ten or more is gratuitous and gauche. 7.5 stories per year is the golden mean, the Goldilocks number of refined literary porridge. #WritingTip

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

1 year

Looting the submittable store and walking out with armfuls of submission fees

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

23 days

You pay $2k for a personalized fiction consultation to take your manuscript to the next level. The instructor mails you an autographed copy of his self-published “craft” book. You never hear from him again. Welcome to the next level.

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

5 months

Does anyone have 1,200 pounds I can borrow? I want to take Granta’s fiction course and emerge with a 3,000 word (maximum) piece of fiction and an increased awareness of the submissions process

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

15 days

It’s 2035. You’re home after a day at the microchip factory. You order ChatGPT 82 to write a late Roth meets early Rooney novel. You read three pages, grow bored, then play Elden Ring 8 until you shit yourself. Your sex doll fetches you a towel. Time for your next shift.

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

5 months

Reading “Bacacay,” a collection of short stories by Witold Gombrowicz, funny, twisted psychology, simmering shame, resentment, murderous boredom, guy trapped in a a glass egg dumped into the ocean, takes a hot balloon to a leper colony, gaslighting manic Poirot

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

5 months

Had a little story up @DontsubmitLit earlier today ICYMI, a sneak peak into Pep Boys’s special oil

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

4 months

I quit volunteering at the soup kitchen to develop true empathy by reading and writing fiction

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

9 months

I’ve got a little story in the latest issue @MoonParkReview with some custom art to boot

Your Service

By Jon Doughboy Black boys and brown boys and poor white boys from the trailers and farms of red America make up the world’s greatest fighting force otherwise known as the US Army. And I was one of…

moonparkreview.com

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

11 months

Wavering selves calling themselves me are envious of hot takes in a little essay @MinorLits with major thanks to @limmoraliste for the space to unspool

The I Recommends — Jon Doughboy

Full of admiration, this I is, for people with firm opinions, especially aesthetic judgements, their confidence, the way they take ownership of their opinions saying x is the best short story write…

minorliteratures.com

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

3 months

Giving up submittable and getting into draftkings

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

1 year

I know @APCON_MAG likes dime-store Dostoevskys, but any mags out there looking for penny-ante Krasznahorkais?

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

4 months

While completing my sixth writing residency on the amalfi coast, I fell in love with a countess who, out of her deep love for me and appreciation of my aesthetic vision, agreed to bankroll this little writing life of mine. Oh, what a fine, pretty little sea!

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Jon Doughboy

@doughboywrites

7 months

“We pay writers” - robbing 900 rejected Peters to pay 3 accepted Pauls

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