- You said before that you’ve always been able to tell a story, but that you had to learn how to write. Please explain how you went about learning.
- I went to the poets. I read poetry, I listened to it on tape, I read it out loud. I tuned my ear to the music of language. Then I read my own prose out loud and could hear whether it cut the mustard.
Author Janet Fitch (who wrote White Oleander) is being interviewd about her writing.
A weblog is always both for oneself and for one's readers. If it were only for oneself, a private diary would be more useful. If it were only for readers, and not a tool for oneself, a more polished and finished form of publication would probably be more appropriate.Blogs exist right on this border between what's private and what's public, and often we see that they disappear deep into the private sphere and reveal far too much information about the writer. When a blog is good, it contains a tension between the two spheres, as delicate a balancing act as the conversation of any experienced guest of the French salons of the 19 th century.
From Blogging thoughts: personal publication as on online research tool by Torill Mortensen and Jill Walker.
Just as email made us all writers, weblogs have made all of us publishers.
From We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture
from Perseus Publishing.
Next question comes from Goran Persson in Sweden: "Dear Dr. Phil, how do you feel about the EMU?"
:-)
From Dagens Nyheter.
