So, I did it again. Worked on a draft for the last couple of days and lost it. I changed the presentation of the blog to make it easier to read and when I came back – the draft was gone. The thing is the thoughts that don’t gel right away, the ones that are [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Reasons for Writing in Black and White
Posted in Detroit, connections, writing on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Goals and Practice
Posted in excercise, writing on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reading over a couple of other blogs this morning, one of my most undesirable character traits surfaced. I began comparing my few and fledgling posts to what others have written and quickly decided mine were thin and lackluster. What I find most troubling about this is not so much the negative self-judgment, (although this becomes a problem when [...]
Forgotten epiphanies
Posted in domestic, writing on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An incredible moment and mundane. Should I publish it or keep it as a draft until tomorrow when I can reread and edit, make it flow?
My husband and I have just been out to a bar for a beer, listening to our jukebox picks (Foreigner, Stevie Ray Vaughn, ZZ Top) mingled with karaoke singing. One [...]
Natural practice
Posted in writing on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m setting a goal to write five times a week, even if it’s just a short paragraph.
My son recently gave a presentation at school, a project that combines work done in three different classes over about a two month period. Teams of two give results of their chemistry experiments, explaining methods and math in pretty [...]
Skeletons
Posted in domestic on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago I began raking out the debris of dried leaves, brittle branches, and the occassional cigarette wrapper from the last couple years that had lodged under the big magnolia tree in the front yard. Every year the tree blooms and is breathtaking for about a half a day. Then spring [...]
Borders
Posted in connections, noise, writing on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know whether this is a personal blog or a place to work through “academic” ideas. The line between the two is so blurred. Maybe it doesn’t exist. Right now I’m trying to integrate a couple of concepts. The first concerns noise - the outlier, the mistake, the answer that doesn’t match the query. Mark Nunes talks about [...]
To Go Through
Posted in writing on June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Through is an intersting word. I hadn’t thought much about it until I named this blog. I chose “Writing Through” because I’m interested in how writing gets an idea from one place to another or rather how I get from one idea to another through writing. Is writing like a passageway, a tunnel to travel through and come [...]
