 All right. So maybe that
figure is a little high.
Fear Not Drowning relies on volunteer submissions to keep it going.
Key word, there, volunteer. I can't offer more than the glory of seeing your own
work live for the world to see, but what more could you ask for? No, don't answer that.
If you'd like to see your name up in lights across kajillions of screens world-wide, please contact
submissions at drowning.com with a description of the
work you'd like to contribute. We're not real picky, but here are a few basic guidelines you should
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- All submissions should be original works. Published work is acceptable as long as it is not held in copyright by a previous publisher. Please be honest.
- FND prefers true life events to fiction, although we're also happy when the lines blur a little. Or a lot.
- Satire and humor are perfectly acceptable ways of managing fear. Sometimes, the only ways.
- Think of FND as a therapy session. We believe that writing about one's own life is far more intriguing than writing about things which you didn't live through.
- Poetry may be accepted, but it'd have to be REALLY good. We've seen enough bad poetry to last a lifetime.
- FND is not requesting art, but again, if it's REALLY good, give me a buzz and I'll give it a gander.
- All materials submitted retain copyright by the author. Any art created to go with the story remains copyrighted by Fear Not Drowning.
Need some guidance to your writing? Ask yourself these:
- What are the origins of fear?
- Where does it come from? Where does it begin?
- How does it manifest?
- When is it real, imagined? When do the lines blur?
- How do we sense it? How does it taste, smell, feel? Does the sense of it change when someone else is feeling it?
- How can we fight it? Overcome it? Can we? Do we ever? Do we want to?
- What do we do with it, besides feel it?
- How can it help a situation? hurt a situation?
- What is fearlessness? Foolishness?
- How do fear and anxiety relate? differ?
- What makes one thing more frightening than another? And one thing frightening to one while not at all to another?
Inspired? Disgusted? Well, write your feelings down, even on a piece of paper if you have to, and send your thoughts to submissions at drowning.com. Our future together depends on it. :)
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