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Goddamnit...
Aug. 24th, 2008 11:46 pmI've temporary forgotten this wondeful short poem about kicking someone in the head because I didn't write it down immediately.
You can't become Emily Dickinson by ignoring your muse!
...and, in my case, without radical surgery, followed by death.
I guess I could save money on scalpel cleaning...
You can't become Emily Dickinson by ignoring your muse!
...and, in my case, without radical surgery, followed by death.
I guess I could save money on scalpel cleaning...
When I think of writing, I think most often of the result, and of the reader, rather than myself. However, in this Bill Moyers interview, Maxine Hong Kingston, best known as author of The Woman Warrior, reveals how her experiences working with veterans demonstrate the profound transformative power of writing on the author's psyche. Watching thing has gotten me to wonder what beneficial effects I might experience taking the pen to my inner demons, and how the technique might help my father, who had the misfortune to grow up in Nazi Germany. Definitely highly relevant not only to writers, but to anyone being haunted by past experiences they'd like to purge.
...when all I *really* needed was the writing and editing for my poly Valentine's Day! By the time I'm finished writing to somewhere between four and six people, I should be ready to give Hemmingway some competition.
Half Price books to go out of business
Feb. 9th, 2006 10:17 pmI finally went through my Delicious Library database and grouped all the books I either haven't read, have only read part of, or feel I need to re-read to have any idea what they were about, and right now I've got a total of 84, which is slightly less than 1/4 of my collection.
I guess I won't, strictly speaking, need to buy any more books at Half Price for a while.
Not that that will probably stop me, mind you...
This doesn't include the hundreds of books I'd read at least once that I'd like to have taken notes on, but didn't.
I think I may create a new "no reading without notebook and pen" rule, which will be very helpful, create a hugely valuable treasure trove of many different kinds of information, and be a huge fucking pain in the ass.
That reminds me, it's time to sign up for Kit's writing club...
I guess I won't, strictly speaking, need to buy any more books at Half Price for a while.
Not that that will probably stop me, mind you...
This doesn't include the hundreds of books I'd read at least once that I'd like to have taken notes on, but didn't.
I think I may create a new "no reading without notebook and pen" rule, which will be very helpful, create a hugely valuable treasure trove of many different kinds of information, and be a huge fucking pain in the ass.
That reminds me, it's time to sign up for Kit's writing club...
