1 – I am still processing all the emotions that have been stirred up as a result of writing my father poems last month and meeting so much new family. It’s all good, I mean even the bad is good because it’s real. But it’s also very intense which is exhausting.
2 – My father’s widow asked me a question that made me mad and I think that’s a good thing too. I don’t want to be the whiny, poor me kid of those poems forever so getting mad is the next step in healing. I think.
3 – I’m frustrated about a couple of things in my writing life but I don’t feel like I can blog about it because, well, who needs that kind of stuff out there forever and ever? So I’m biting my tongue but it’s hard. Maybe I should set up a small list of Livejournal friends who don’t mind listening to that kind of stuff where I can lock all the posts?
4- I am writing essays in my head that I really need to get down on paper, or actually on the screen, about creativity and art and writing.
5 – Alas, said essays, like the Cassie posts about dogs and writing, are not likely to be marketable except to a select audience. Now I understand why many people are attracted by self and POD publishing.
Happy weekend everyone.
I think your On Dogs and Writingessays would make a good, marketable inspirational book for writers.
I don’t think that if I, an un-book-published writer, tried to market Dancing With My Leash, by Echo as told to Barb, that anyone would buy it. (At least, not now… 😉 )
You, on the other hand, have published book credentials. Why couldn’t it be the next Walking On Alligators, On Writing or Bird By Bird?
Thanks. In my head it all makes perfect sense but my adult agent told me a few years ago that no one would buy a writing book from someone without a BIG name so that sorta took the wind out of my sails a bit.
I second this comment – and not quite buying what that agent has said; there are several writing books out there by non-BIG names, and I think your having such a useful and resourceful blog would also help. 🙂
I think mad can be good, too.
I’m willing to listen to your writing life frustrations, if it would help.
Marketable, schmarketable. You know?
I might just take you up on that, Tracy. Thanks.
Count me in too. We still need to meet in person.
Yes, we do need to meet in person and I’m grateful that we can. Soon! Life should settle a bit soon.
Why not friends lock certain posts? I do, and it’s cathartic.
Yeah, I could do that but sometimes I’d like a tighter circle with people like you that I actually interact with. You know how it was when LJ was booming and everyone was friending everyone else? But I’m probably overworried.
You can make sub lists. I have one (or did at one point) just of people who were published. So you could make a smaller list. Just don’t call it something like “My only real friends” because I remember once hearing someone could see what you called the list and feel bad if they weren’t on it.
I do locked friends only posts. Did a poem in one last month (the 27th). I like everything you write and I don’t think anyone knew who Natalie Goldberg was until Writing Down the Bones came out.
If it is good people will buy it and I think it will be good!
I like it when people bitch, too, so you don’t have to worry about that with me.
And I am glad to see you back. You were missed. Those poems were hot!
Thank you for the support. I really appreciate it. The poems helped me so much but they also took me to a different place and I’m still trying to get comfy with myself there.
Whine, vent, commiserate, share – see you Wednesday! xoxo
Thanks! Looking forward to Wednesday.
I lock a lot of posts, mostly b/c I rant about work and writing. Of course all I need to do is piss one person off…
Call me any time if you want to bend my ear, chickie! (((hugs)))
Thank you. I think I need to start doing the friend-locked thing. I need to rant.
We do need to do another phone chat soon!
Call me tonight, or I am off all day tomorrow. Seriously. Right now I am reading posts instead of DOING WHAT I’M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING…like WRITING!