I write a letter a day. Not a letter of the alphabet obviously, I mean that I write at least one letter a day. I've been doing it for years. I write blog posts. I write thought pieces. I just sometimes get ideas in my head that I can't get out of my head without writing them. Sometimes there are ideas that I can't formulate aloud but can formulate it if I'm writing. I can't imagine not writing. My style of writing is narrative. Everything's a story. I see stories around me. I see people living their lives as stories. I see my life as a story. I don't see my life as particularly interesting but I think there are interesting things that have happened. I try and make them interesting when I write them. It's hard to tell when I write about myself if I'm capturing the interesting part of it well. It's like going on vacation and taking a picture. Later looking at the picture of something I don't see in my mind's eye just the static photo, but I see my memory of it. I see it with a better sense of scale. I see it as aide-mémoire. So, I'm going to write some stuff, some things I remember and see if there's any reaction, response to the memories for someone who wasn't there and doesn't know the principals.
Personal blog in every sense of the phrase. What's going on with me. It'll have my writing practice and progress and personal stuff as well. Always interesting, but maybe not always to the same people. :)
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Writing & Me...
I write a letter a day. Not a letter of the alphabet obviously, I mean that I write at least one letter a day. I've been doing it for years. I write blog posts. I write thought pieces. I just sometimes get ideas in my head that I can't get out of my head without writing them. Sometimes there are ideas that I can't formulate aloud but can formulate it if I'm writing. I can't imagine not writing. My style of writing is narrative. Everything's a story. I see stories around me. I see people living their lives as stories. I see my life as a story. I don't see my life as particularly interesting but I think there are interesting things that have happened. I try and make them interesting when I write them. It's hard to tell when I write about myself if I'm capturing the interesting part of it well. It's like going on vacation and taking a picture. Later looking at the picture of something I don't see in my mind's eye just the static photo, but I see my memory of it. I see it with a better sense of scale. I see it as aide-mémoire. So, I'm going to write some stuff, some things I remember and see if there's any reaction, response to the memories for someone who wasn't there and doesn't know the principals.
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