Creativity Unleashed Submissions

Remember a while ago when we were all talking on the list about doing a magazine for and by teen unschoolers? Well, Jessica St.Julien got a few of us who were interested together(me, Emily, Jessica R., and Jasmine) and we are working on doing that! It's called Creativity Unleashed. We were talking about really publishing it, but that just didn't work out, so we are doing it online for a while at least. The website may not be ready for a bit(Jessica S. is working on that), but I wanted to go ahead and ask for submissions. In the near future we will probably ask for writing on specific(although broad)topics, but for right now you can send whatever-poetry, fiction, unschooling articles, tutorials, essays and opinions, etc. on whatever subject you want to write about.

You can send it to me at arabhorses_rock at hotmail.com or type it in here, and I will copy and paste it into our submissions folder so we can check out everything and see what we do and don't want to use.

Okay I read this over and here are my changes: don't type it in here! We don't want everybody to read your writing here-we want them to read it on the magazine's website! And also now we have an e-mail for the magazine: creativity_unleashed at hotmail.com So send it there!

Thanks a bunch! -Ren

• Hey Erin... as there are two Jessicas working on this thing, you've GOTTA start specifying which one you're talking about! But yeah- I thought we weren't accepting stuff yet... Hmmmm... I could be wrong (I just found out that that is possible!) -JessicaSkater

Sorry! I will specify next time!

Well, we weren't exactly, but it doesn't hurt. Jessica(not you, of course:-) said I could if I wanted to. I feel bad now for just going ahead with it, but it won't hurt anything and we might as well. I'll just stick anything we get into storage. Are you all irrated with me?

You can answer all that on the CU board if you like, so we don't get a discussion started about this on wiki. Erin

• Ummm... I read over what I wrote to you, and I sounded like a complete bitch. Sorry about that- that was totally not meant the way it sounded. *grins* yeah- I'll move this to the CU board (good plan) -JessicaSkater

No, it's okay, I didn't even think that!

 Well I tried emailing this but it didn't work, so I have to post it here. 
sry!  I wrote this story a few weeks ago, in a moment of irony.

The disclamer is: This *is* in jest, I am totally not a barbie advocater. That's all I have to say, except how do I get access to the magazine? ~Athena

 
            I’m a ghost.  Yeah, I know.  I got thrown in the garbage and
died from the stinkin’ fumes!  Is that not like, totally retarded?  It’s not
like I wanted to be a ghost!!  Much less a trash heap ghost.  But then
again, I didn’t want a lot of things. I didn’t ask for a retarded nerd boy
boyfriend.  (Ken.  That’s his name.  Would you believe it?!  Ken!!!  Neeeerd
city, here we come.)  And then.  Get this.  This I definitely did not want:
I’m sitting around, innocent as can be, when I hear this mother tell her
daughter,

“I’m sorry honey, I don’t want you to play with Barbie anymore. She’s a very bad example of the female form, and I just read a study in USA Today that says, ‘…the majority of girls who play with Barbie grow up to have bad self esteem. Barbie is unfit for our daughters…’ She’s just not anatomically correct, honey, and I don’t want you to play with a doll like that.”

            “Like that”? Like what?!  One just wonders what she’s
insinuating!  It didn’t used to be like that.   People used to like me.  But
not anymore.  No.  Now I’m deemed  “a bad example of the female form,”
“Unfit for our daughters,” etc. etc. etc.  Well you know what I think?  I
think it all started with mothers gone jealous.  I mean, what else could
have started it?  I mean, hey.  It’s not my fault that I, Barbie, (even as a
ghost!) have a perfect body, is it?  And I had to like, totally suffer to
get it too!  Do you know I’ve never once had a bite to eat?  And it took all
sorts of plastic surgery to get me the way I am.  So I am fed UP with
jealous mothers, especially ones who throw me in the garbage.  Totally fed
up. Totally with a capital “T.”  And I am definitely not happy to be a
RETARDED ghost!  

 Hey Athena, I'm sorry, but basically there is no magazine. The e-mail is
dead because I know longer keep it up. We started working on it monthes ago
(as in last year at about this time) and it just fell apart before we got
anywhere. I have been out of it for a while (I am being forced to go to high
school this year-yuck!). It is -very- hard to work on a project with people
you have never met over the internet. Again, sorry! -Ren