What Is & What Will Be

What Is & What Will Be

by Rasmenia Comment Closed
“She was a published writer. I imagined how thrilling it must be living such a life, going around the world and making up things about it.” -E. L. Doctorow *** Well, not so thrilling, as it turns out. Interesting, yes. Fun, definitely. Boring... never. Most of the time is spent not zipping around the globe, but here in this corner, in this room, at this desk where I sit now. I scribble in notebooks, make faces at open documents in Word & lean my head on my hand as I read submission guidelines for one literary journal after another until my eyes go all googly. And research... entire days of reading, searching & asking questions. On really good days, I sit curled up in a comfy chair with my iPad while working on a piece of flash fiction. It's really not that thrilling, but it does make me feel glad & complete inside. I don't believe in sitting around waiting for "the muse" & I...
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…& the Stack of Written Pages Grows Higher

by Rasmenia Comment Closed
"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought."  - Gertrude Stein"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."  - Cyril Connolly"A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content."  - Alfred North Whitehead...A little more than 10 years ago, I signed up for the class.  "Freelance Writing" was the name of the course.  I was about 23 years old & was working in a factory.  I registered for the course because of the buzzing in my ear that constantly nagged me, reminding me that I had never set out to work in a noisy, stinking factory.Well...the buzzing could have been from the machinery in the factory, but either way, the message was the same.I signed up for the class, I paid the...
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