Arts & Humanities - 16 October 2007

I wrote a novel.
Took about four years to write it while maintaining my full-time job. Late evenings, weekends, vacation time spent writing.
It got rejected again by an editor after the nth review. This is a common experience.
Editors roughly publish 1 percent of what they receive.
Even if you do get past the publication stage, less than 10 percent of authors can really afford to quit their day job.
Given all this, why would anybody go through the trouble?
Sorry for ranting, I'm just rolling with the latest punch.

So anyway the question, in its multiple facets:
Is literature a dead art?
Do you have to be a masochist to write today?
When do you know it's time to throw in the towel and get a normal life?

2007-10-16 02:08:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

man superimposed upon nature.

2007-10-16 02:04:23 · 6 answers · asked by Corz 1 in Philosophy

2007-10-16 01:57:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

Who is known as the 'Great Compromiser' and made the Historic Compromise of 1850 to again save the Union from division?

2007-10-16 01:40:07 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-10-16 01:35:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

A four year old boy went to visit his elderly neighbour after hearing that he had lost his wife.
His mother noticed him sitting in the back yard on the elderly gentlemans knee.
After a while when the little boy returned home, his mother asked him what did he say to the gentleman.
The boy replied "Nothing.... I just helped him cry"

Out of the mouths of babes ♥♥♥

2007-10-16 01:34:57 · 6 answers · asked by ♥♥♥ lover from ozz 4 in Philosophy

I need a title for a 5 minute play I'm working on. Help? The Scenario goes like this...
2 people are stuck on a broken mall elevator together for 5 minutes. There is one conflict in the story. Beth and Sarah are unknowingly dating the same guy. They are both supposed to be meeting him in the mall’s 1st Floor. Beth’s encounter is a planned date, while Sarah is just planning a surprise. Through a series of text messages, phone conversations, and dialogue, they find out they are dating the same guy and have an argument on the elevator. By the end of the episode, Sarah and Beth have become allies of sorts and retaliate against Matt when the elevator is fixed.

2007-10-16 00:58:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

i was absent when everyone else was writing notes about this, does any one know where i can find a website to do with this please?
its a 250 word essay and needs to include:
-hitler's aims
-what hitler did
-why war was started.

thank you so much

2007-10-16 00:52:53 · 5 answers · asked by HelloSunshine:) 2 in History

As I am casting the von Trapp children and the Gretl and Marta have to be under 4ft 4in but is not specific, how tall should they be?

2007-10-16 00:46:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

A. The Vietcong was a guerilla army that infiltrated North Vietnam and fought on the side of the United States.

B. The Vietcong was the name of the resistance movement against the French.


C.The Vietcong was another name for the Army of North Vietnam.

D.The Vietcong was a guerilla army made up of South Vietnamese citizens who fought for North Vietnam.

2007-10-16 00:44:28 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

Mom love baby.We are still baby for our mom.

2007-10-16 00:37:47 · 5 answers · asked by martinsdiamond_tm 2 in Philosophy

i need an answer now..thanks..

2007-10-16 00:33:55 · 7 answers · asked by hoffer 2 in Photography

Who are included now?
(Church welfare has gone to any people in need: Katrina, Pakistan, Indonesia, Africa, etc.).

2007-10-16 00:08:19 · 5 answers · asked by scotty_84116 4 in History

2007-10-16 00:05:28 · 11 answers · asked by d_mukherjee_2000 1 in Books & Authors