I've lost my bloggy way. No map. No signs. No ideas.
Category: blogging
Go hula!
See things from another perspective. Like a hula hoop. I've been reading a lot over at Tribal Writer. Justine says a lot of things I wish I'd said. Now I wish I could figure out how to say what I want to say. She has a post about having True Fans. I don't know how …
Maybe! Are you surprised?
Surprise may be something you avoid. Years ago, a friend's husband asked me to get his wife out of the house on the day of her surprise birthday party. "It's your birthday! What do you want to do? My treat!" "I want to see Life is Beautiful." "For your birthday? Won't it be depressing?" "Yes! …
Maybe You Won’t Laugh
I may be joking. Interviewer: In your Antologia Personal... Borges: Look here, I want to say that that book is full of misprints. My eyesight is very dim, and the proofreading had to be done by somebody else. Interviewer: I see, biut those are only minor errors, aren't they? Borges: Yes, I know, but they …
Maybe Leave the Mistakes
You may be bored by interviews, but I love interviews with writers and artists and scientists. I am reading The Paris Review Interviews: vol. I. Have you read these interviews? My favorite interview so far is with Jorge Luis Borges. Mostly I liked it because Borges came across as someone I'd want to talk to. …
Maybe Not This Time
May be this is too much. I've participated in NaNoWriMo 7 times. And each time I wrote more than 50,000 words. Last year I wrote all 31 stories for Story-a-Day. But finally, this time, I'm stuck. I started a story, but this day has just not been good.. Oh but who cares? Everyone has a …
Maybe This Voice
This may become tedious. Forcing myself to blog and write a short story every single day is a challenge all right----to me and my readers. Okay, maybe not my readers. You aren't obligated to do anything. But what is all this writing for? This morning I read an article in Vanity Fair by Christopher Hitchens----Unspoken …
Maybe Numbered
Blogging may betray my incessant need for reassurance. What else are all these like/share/tellmeyouloveme buttons for? Sometimes I am envious of writers-gone-by who just wrote in the silence, unconnected world of their homes and then waited to hear back eventually from their editor. And then wait to perhaps get a few letters from readers. I …
Maybe Imperfection Is Okay
May beastly things happen in my stories but not in my writing of them. Eleven stories in to Story-a-Day and my brain seemed to have suffered a structural collapse. I finished the story because, well, Time said to. But what really--no maybe about it--bothers me about this story is what it lacks throughout. A layer …
Maybe the Ending Is All Wrong
This story may best be forgotten. I have no perspective. How do you get perspective? How do you judge your own work? I can't get a handle on my own neurotic, self-obsessed spinning. But what makes a story a success? When you read a story, how do you know this one works but this one …
Marta Bacon 