Amazing technology lets us all look a little crazy 🙂
Ever get the feeling you’re talking to yourself? That used to be considered a bad thing. Now-a-days, with Star Trek kind of technologies, people run around tapping their ears and talking all the time to heaven only knows who. Now, whenever I’m in the mood, I can just put a hand to my ear and start talking. I don’t get the smallest of questioning looks. Imagine what I can get away with:
“You’re so ugly the swamp monster runs away in fear of you.” The person in the torn up jeans, the ones that hang well below his plumber’s butt crack, keeps right on walking.
“Will you please tell me what IS that exercise you’re doing?” The woman who weaves from side to side on the sidewalk, waving her hands over her head as if swatting the world away just keeps toddling on. I think she’s loopy-looking, but I bet she’s healthier than I.
“Bueno sera. Come sta?” Oops. That’s me, studying my Italian lessons, and talking to my phone–honest, I am.
Still, writing to you “out there,” I’m never really sure anymore if my posts are being read or if I’ve truly joined the ranks of those who talk to themselves. Recently, I took the training wheels off my website and switched over to the self-hosted version of WordPress. Since then, I have only had one or two comments. My blog posts don’t automatically zoom out to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter anymore. There is no clear little checkbox on the admin side of my site to click to auto-send out to the world. Yikes!
If you’re reading this and want to be my reading angel, will you please drop me a note to let me know how you received this weekly letter? And if you’re feeling particularly chatty, I’d really appreciate what it is you’d like to read about on this blog. What would make you keep coming back to this aspiring writer who has so little writing news?
Thanks for your help. Oh! and if you comment, I promise, I’ll be listening. You won’t be talking to yourself. Really.
Absolute #1 thing you can do is simply to encourage me, (well, everyone,) to keep writing. Whether its in journals, blogs, emails, (maybe better yet, real letters *gasp*) to friends/family/Santa Claus, or anything else.
Otherwise, keep encouraging the crazy!
Hi Curt! Thanks for putting in your two cents-worth. I really appreciate the feedback and do hope you continue to write. I love the idea of a real letter now and again. Was just thinking about that yesterday as I headed directly to my recycling bin from the mailbox. Maybe people should post a mailing address on their Facebook pages (I’d just recommend the mailing address be a post office box of some kind and not your home address–I still love to TP people!) Have a great day. HUGS
One of the great joys of my life is sitting idly by watching people walk and chat on their phones, and decide what it is they’re speaking about. Just silly fun, but sometimes inspires a story.
Topics for blog discussion:
prompts for short stories
what you think about when you free write (if you free write)
neat ways to “spice up” writing as a way to build a habit (write in iambic pentameter – I tried it, it was an _awful_ poem, but it was a lot of fun just doing it.
creative processes towards writing novels
Best
Hi Craig,
Thanks for visiting & commenting! One of the first and best skills a writer has is that of meaningful observations. You seem to have mastered that!
As for writing about writing, the challenge is on, and I’ll see what I can do. I may do a re-think of my current categories starting later this summer, and writing techniques will be up on the priority list.
See you this summer, I hope. Meanwhile, hugs to you and everyone in Detroit.
Still listening, Liesa! I used to get an email as soon as you had put up a new blog post but I now realize that I don’t get that anymore and I have to deliberately check in once in a while.
Your post reminds me of when cell phones first became popular. I was always started to hear people “talking to themselves” in the street, hearing one side of a conversation. It still startles me at times.
Hi Letizia,
Thanks for jumping in! I will see what I need to do to get notices sent out to subscribers of this blog.
And as for the cell phones? Oh yes! I remember those first days too. Still get a bit of a creepy feeling on that. But so much fun to do the people watching.
Have a great week!
Hello Liesa,
Yes, I am still reading your blog. I like what you are writing.
For the Italian in this post, actually it should be ‘Buonasera’, bot ‘Bueno sera’, hope you don’t mind that I point this out.
oh, it should be ‘not’, not ‘bot’.
Hi Ray,
Thank you and thank you! I will make the correction immediately. My Italian studies truly are oral only, can you tell?Oh, and guess what? I’ll be visiting the Nottinghill Gate library in London this June. After writing my blog post referencing it, the librarian and I engaged in a conversation, and they’re looking forward to welcoming me, where I’ll donate my first internationally publicly distributed “Faith on the Rocks.” Very cool. Thanks for your support always.