#jonnyblackwrites

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I am selling my poem poetry purses and my poetry zine on bigcartel! If you have a poem lover in your life or are one yourself, check it out!

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Today I went downtown to write poems for strangers and it. Was. Awesome!

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This is how I feel as a brown person in the literary world

another heavy handed symbolism moment: my mom has a potted sunflower in the kitchen. because it is a sunflower, it keeps turning towards the light from the window. my mother keeps rotating it so it faces inward because she wants "to see its beautiful petals and have it really brighten up the space!" . the sunflower is visibly wilting .

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WHO'S READY FOR GOTH BABE AUTUMN!!!

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Bringing my busking gig online! Writing poems on the spot has been such a fun way to connect with strangers. I wanted to bring that experience to strangers everywhere! If you like my poetry and want something just for you, click the link above :)

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Back on Fiverr! Price is negotiable, depending on how many words your manuscript/short story is.

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Another post up on my site for the ARG and Unfiction lovers! Click Here to read for FREE!

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A Controversial But Fair Critique on Gabbie Hanna’s Poetry (That Doesn’t Completely Shit on Her…

A Controversial But Fair Critique on Gabbie Hanna’s Poetry (That Doesn’t Completely Shit on Her… https://medium.com/@jonnyablack/a-controversial-but-fair-critique-on-gabbie-hannas-poetry-that-doesn-t-completely-shit-on-her-f2072d02ae97

Updated and posted to Medium! If you wanted to read and you like poetry analysis and (nice) critique, it helps me out!

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Hire Me to Edit Your Fiction and Poetry!

What it says on the tin! I am now offering editing services for fiction and poetry! I have recently graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor's in Creative Writing, so I know my stuff!

My services include Copy Editing (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) and Feedback/ Constructive Criticism in the form of a copy of your marked up work and a letter to the author detailing any thoughts or feedback. PLEASE NOTE that when I say constructive criticism, I will not be mean! This will mostly include first/second impressions of work ('when you wrote this, I thought of this/ was reminded of this...'/ I assumed you were referencing Popular Literature Work here-- am I correct?), and suggestions on where the work could be stronger in terms of your vision. I will never demean you or your work! We are all at different stages of writing and we all have different styles, but this does not mean that we are bad writers.

However, if you are not the kind of person who can take any form of criticism at all, please consider looking somewhere else. You are not paying me to give you endless praise-- we are both here to make your writing stronger. That being said, I love giving praise as well! And I strive to always give encouragement and praise where it is due!

My rates are non-negotiable and non-refundable. I will require 100% of the payment upfront and I will send you your feedback as soon as I finish! Fiction should take me no more than 1-3 days at most depending on word count, and poetry should be even less.

To hire me as an Editor, please:

1. Send me a DM with a request to hire me, along with a summary of what you would like to send me (fiction or poetry, word count, any questions pertaining to my guidelines and the genre your work fits into.)

2. Once I have approved that your work follows my guidelines, please send 100% of the payment to my paypal at: paypal.me/jonnyblackwrites. If after payment I find that your work violates my guidelines, I reserve the right to refund you your money and dispose of any work I have completed.

3. Send a PDF of your work to me at: jonnyablack@yahoo.com

4. Relax for a few days! You've earned it!

Thanks! I look forward to editing your work!

Rates current as of September 2021.

Examples of my own published work:

The Roadrunner Review-- If I Die, and I Will

Ghost Bible-- DREAM DEATH and Entry Number One , Journal One: ANOTHER SUN

Mosaic Art & Literary Journal, Vol 60-- Poetry Editor- in- Chief, Under Jonny Rodriguez.

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The aforementioned scribbles

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What does the world want from us? do we ever really grow up? Look at us all, scrambling to netflix and to the movie theatre to watch the latest fantasy or superhero film. Our parents tell us to grow up and be adults, hypocrites that they are: how are we supposed to function like this, being pulled one way into a fabricated ideal of maturity, all the while hanging on to childhood pleasures like stories and music and imagination. 

Anyway 

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Nothing says"I'm a writer" like furiously scribbling and finishing a poem in your journal that you haven't touched for the better part of a year.

it's going live on my instastories for 24 hours, so check me here if you wanna see my mad scribbles

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I'm SO EXCITED to start writing Tron:R3zolution again !!! I just have to finish these last two finals and THEN IM FREE!!

(If you'd like to help support a writer financially, please consider donating here!)

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Today on Big Dick Energy: Im making my entire class listen to Daft Punks RAM

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ON ANOTHER SIDE NOTE two of my strangest poems got accepted for publication and i’m exhausted and malnourished so i’m going to lay here and let the success of me wash over my pale, undernourished body and be happy for me. Me time. I’m getting published again, ya’ll! 

It pays off, lemme tell ya. 

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I'm doing this this year! Well I'm endeavoring to try to have a successful All Hallows read... Follow my Instagram to watch the epic highs and lows of preparing for All Hallows Read! @ jonnyblackwrites

Dare to Care – Share a Scare Horror book giving phenomenon All Hallows’ Read is brooding on that ominous Halloween horizon. Listen! Isn’t there a voice in the cold, ill wind? It almost sounds like Neil Gaiman giving his all in a hoarse whisper to remind you of his marvelous idea: 
 – Wouldn’t it be awfully nice if people gave each other good scary books along with the Halloween candy, to spread the joys of reading horror? All alone? In the dark? With spider-leg-like chills creeping up the back of your legs? [A cackle of ghoulish polite British excuses is swallowed by the surrounding darkness…] ——— Here you’ll find my book monsters of yore.