Re: [Paddlewise] Magazines

On Dec 28, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Nick Schade wrote:
> I don't see the enjoyment of going out for a day on the water 
> regularly depicted in the magazines.  . . . . . . . .  The magazines 
> seem to depict sea kayaking as a means to some other goal not as the 
> goal itself. I think it is a disservice to the sport to depict it as 
> means to another end. I would like to see sea kayaking depicted as 
> reason enough in itself to participate in the sport.

AMEN!  That is indeed the missing material.  Were it present, this 
would in fact be a 'literary' component.  There are also few books 
published from this perspective.  I know of only a couple and these 
have little of what I would call serious literary merit.  I row in 
addition to paddling and there are lots of good books, (no magazines), 
devoted to that experience, (for its own sake).  Why not paddling?  I 
have submitted some articles of this sort to the paddling magazines.  
They have been rejected while my specific "destination" ones have been 
published.  The publishers evidently don't see a market, (or maybe they 
just think my writing sucks).

I long for that kind of reading about paddling but it is much more 
often found on this list than in published books and magazines.  Too 
bad.

Cheers,

Michael
After a great day paddling in sunny Tallahassee
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