Sunday, January 9, 2005
Small Twists Determine Our Fates
This is a true story. It was almost so very different. Friends came for lunch yesterday. It was a get-together of old friends spontaneously arranged while some were in town. Everyone bought a plate. One friend bought a cheesecake courtesy of Sara Lee. It was unusual for her not to have baked. She...
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Saturday, January 8, 2005
Stay At Home Kids
The world is a dangerous place. "Nowhere is safe any more?" "You don't want to limit them but how can you let your kids out of your sight for a moment?" The lament of parents. They hold children closer to them than ever. Sometimes the urge to protect squeezes the life out of them. I watched The...
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Friday, January 7, 2005
You Say Your Best Work Is Elsewhere
Why do I doubt that? People occasionally comment that they don't share their best work with us here. They save that for the people they hope to sell it to. Of course it not usually practical or wise to share with readers here the content of work for which others pay us for and demand first rights....
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Thursday, January 6, 2005
The Imbalances Of Blogit Throw Me
"The church of the self-absorbed" - that's how Talion described it when I remarked to him that the imbalance of Blogit sometimes throws me. It happens to me when I get a big reaction to one post and then not much of a reaction to another post. The law of Blog is that the post that you care about is...
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If The Sentence Is Not Felt By The Writer/Blogger It Is Dead
There is no reason to write anything which you don't feel or must contrive to feel. These sentiments appear in If You Want To Write - A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland. Look out for this book - it is good to read or dip into. "If you want to write... about a man who is...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Forever Swimming
Big black arrows on the news page point to the father and small child at the shore playing games, building castles. A digital image sent out across the world shows the idyllic beach, white sand and tropical vegetation. Mother watches and smiles, then waves at little one, oblivious..... She reclines,...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2005
When Is The Cost Of Blogging Too High?
(And NO, I am not talking about the increased subscription!**) What if by sitting at your desk and posting and commenting for hours on end and being engaged in time-consuming email correspondence meant that for two-three-four or more hours a day you were not writing your article, or your novel, or...
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It's True! Some Of The Top Ten ARE Phonies
Who is being honest here? Some people admit their intentions here. They want money and position and attention and they are unashamed of how they achieve it. The only downside is that the rest of us have to witness it. At the end of the year I was working on a short story and as per second to last...
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Are You Loose? Did You Lose Your Way?
I am sick and tired of this. Sometimes the more that people see a word used, the more they believe it is being used correctly. I think this must be the case with the word loose. Everyday I see bloggers use loose when they mean lose. Don't lose the plot, and remember loose clothes don't cut off the...
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If You "Adore" Writing You Won't Be Any Good
Writing just gets tougher. I heard an interview the other day where the subject said he was suspicious of people who claim they "adore" writing. If there is no pain he said, they'll probably never be any good. That made me feel a little better because I struggle over what I write even down to posts...
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