Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Before We Go Any Further...

Let me just apologize.

I'm not a writer. I don't write poetry. I don't have people demanding that I write, sharing it with all the world.

I wish I were - then I would be a better man. But it's not a gift I was given.

So don't think that I'm sitting here, all presumptuous, thinking that I do this well - that I'm writing for the sake of the people reading because they need something beautiful in their life.

No - I'm writing mainly because I experienced this great big fairy tale this summer. Sometimes something pops into my head that I need to spit out, but not often.

So I'm sorry.

The travels continue tonite.

10 comments:

serenah said...

writer or not, really doesn't matter...i love your entries...a fan of yours...:)

Blueprincesa said...

me too :-)

J C said...

well...thank you

i wrote that this morning - hastily - after reading something else

but i guess most of it is still true

k o w said...

Good read here.

Christa said...

Thanks for the link, and for visiting mine!!! Always remember- one of my favorite cliches- dance like no one's watching, love like you can't get hurt, write like no one is reading it........ don't underestimate the power of your words. :)

MaNiC MoMMy™ said...

Christa--you forgot about hanging out in your house nekkid!

J Holden--we obviously think you are a talented writer, with prose that shows us where you've been, and we're enjoying what you have to say, so please, keep writing!

Not giving donuts upsets stephanie!

Blueprincesa said...

Sometimes I think it's me who is "being all presumtuous," especially, I'm realising today, in the things I say on other people's blogs. I was thinking about how it's too easy to say ugly things, and too impossible to take them back... I regretted what I wrote on Trey's the moment I said it, not because I agreed with him (I didn't), but because I could have chosen to disagree with him in a much mroe civilised way, but I still haven't figured out how to delete anything... made me seriously consider throwing mine in the garbage, just so I wouldn't do things like that anymore. But anyway, whether it's what you mean to do or not, you are giving people something beautiful to read.

And I think that's the very last thing I'm ever going to say to anybody on this stupid thing.

J C said...

k o w, christa, steph - thank you, i appreciate your words

blue - you're overreacting
the fact that you're realizing some of those things is a positive step in and of itself

i personally didn't find many things that i disagreed with trey on, but we all have our right to opinion

the key is engage in CONSTRUCTIVE conversation - not name-calling

anyway, thanks to all who are reading - all i hope is that i become a better writer, i'd like that

Blueprincesa said...

yeah I resumed the discussion with Trey and as it turned out, we actually did agree on some important points, it's just that neither of us had done a particularly good job at articulating our initial positions, me especially... And I don't even know what was with the name-calling. I never do that.

J C said...

i know, i read