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Lyn,
I think this way because I’m nuts.
I’m feeling a little blue. I don’t go out much and I don’t have many friends or much of a social life at the moment., except for my cyber-space family. You guys really light-up my day as well. If I can only walk away from the milk and cookies!!!
I want to write an article for an Archaeology mag: The importance of basket weaving. The psychological, spritual and cultural connections it has for us as Native people today.
Any thoughts?
Julie,
That is an excellent idea for an article!:) Most definately, go for it. Depending on which magazine you query first, I’d see what their usual thength for a main line story like that, but I’d shoot for say about 1500 to 2000 words. Toss in a few photo’s or illustrations of the process and go along the slant too, that it is so theraputic or such an artform that its almost poetic, but base it off the ancient ways so people really understand what knowledge our ancestors utilized and it was so functional too! Never sell all rights to any piece because you can resell it in a few years or reword it to suit another slant on the same theme. Offer first North American Serial Rights. I sold a piece in 92 that I made the mistake of selling all rights, which included the photos. 70 Dollars a printed page for my very first Article was nice, but I could have resold off the same basic story 10 times by now. I think, now that its been 12 years and the publication no longer exists, I could probably get away with updating the statistics and doing new photos and resell it, this time for the First North American Serial Rights.
Sorry about that. I get cut off all the time so I’ve learned to be quick and not dawdle!:) Do you have any magazines in mind to query yet? Pick atleast 3, study their word count and what specific things they look for in the articles they print. You can also check and see if they have a web site. A lot of times they will and they’ll have authors guidelines on there for you to follow when making your submission. Or there’s always the Writer’s Digest, yearly Writer’s Market, it’s full of great places to work with and sugestions for how to sell your work. The hardest part is not researching or writing the piece, it’s in the query letter and the way it sells your piece.
Thanks for the reply.
I have produced several baskets that have been on diplay at local museums. Also, made a few baskets for movie props. Basket making is so much more than that, and it deserves more attention as a cultural link to our l past. Early technologies enable us to recreate this phenomena.
And now my sweet Julie, I know all about nuts. I don’t like to let it get around;) But truly I am certifiable. I s__t you not!:D But I’m on GREAT MEDS!:cool: So don’t worry about it, I feel we have to be a little bit looped or we wouldn’t be able to cope! And about those blues, you’re doing the right thing, you look at what is making you blue, but you don’t get to be too friendly with it. Look at it, see what it might be about. Put it in a small box and sit it aside while you side track yourself on being the beautiful person that you are. And you dig in to something, anything with great enthusiasm. If that doesn’t side track you enough, get another thing, book, movie that there is no way it could have anything to do with real life, then go back to what you were digging into in the first place and finish it up. you may have to get your Blues Mechanism back out of the box once in a while and just peek at it again, but make sure you put it away again too. This way you’re not “stuffing” things until you hit overload, ya’ know?:) 😉 I Love You For Every ounce of blood in your body. And don’t you ever forget that. Most natural of all is love and it truly is everywhere, even if we can’t see it, it’s there. And any time you need a shoulder or just want to chat you can e-mail me here or at lynellarainhawk@yahoo.com and I’ll get back to you. Love & Light SIS, Lynella.
Julie,
🙂 That is so wonderful! And “Ooh-Ah!” movie props too! How totaly COOL is that?:cool: I would love to see your baskets is there anyway I could get to see some of your pieces? That would be so great!:) Love & Light, Lynella.
Linda,
I should be back at it late January.
Its a real cool place to work. The most important piece in the museum is the photo gallery that shows the public sobering images of what Indians look like today! Amazing, here we are in the 21 century and everyone is suppose to look like geronimo.
Little do people relize that when European’s came to these shores of wealth and religious freedom for themselves, about 12,000 Indians lived in southern New England-8,000 on the main land and 4,000 on the islands. After the King Philip’s War (1675-1676) only about 400 Indian people survived. Throughout the years, slavaery, blood mixing, laws, disease, racist attitudes, and isolalation have disintegrated what was left of the First Americans in this region. So, when I hear non-Indian people say, “Some of you don’t look Indian.” “I tell them one reason is that you and your forfathers accomplished this genocide by not keeping your pants zipped-up!
LOL
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