Now that I have your attention, I have a bone to pick with my readership. (Excluding those of you with whom I’ve met personally this week.)
Back on Monday, I posted a set of questions for writers and poets to answer. Nobody responded, despite the fact that my blog was visited about 60 times since then.
Not just idle curiosity but a means of networking, to share possibly some better ways of doing what we do with our creative lives, would be my point. (Now there’s some fun syntax.)
I am a poet. I’ve been writing poetry since about 1985. I’m also a professional writer in other genres. As a technical writer, I’ve got some game when it comes to the geek’s side of the writing biz. But …
“He who thinks he knows does not know. He who knows he does not know, knows.”
– Joseph Campbell
I want to learn from you. And I’m completely willing to share everything I think I know and know I don’t know. No charge, for whatever it may be worth.
When I post my own writing and no one comments, I can only assume it must have blown baby chunks. So back to the editing desk it goes – or to the drawer. No one wants to be cruel and I appreciate that. But I’m amazed that here we have a small group of poets and writers who don’t want to talk about themselves. We poets and writers – especially bloggers – Love to talk about ourselves.
I would post creative work in process here a lot more often, if I got more response to it when I do.
I can take a hint: I have not sold the proverbial bike shop in hopes of taking wing. But I feel like I’m hiding my own Easter eggs here, folks. He said, baldly mixing metaphors.
This blog is about writing. It’s about the creative impulse, the dim vision, the rare visceral pangs of clarity, the technique, the process, the dream deferred and supplanted, and the warm hard copy received in lieu of payment.
If you’re looking for Dilbert, you’re in the wrong place.
If you’re interested in writing let’s have a little intercourse, shall we not?
in·ter·course – [in-ter-kawrs, -kohrs] –noun
1.
dealings or communication between individuals, groups, countries, etc.
2.
interchange of thoughts, feelings, etc.
tərˌk
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