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It’s nice to just send something out into space, so much more vague and abstract (and pleasantly so) than having my thoughts in print, right there, in black and white. Blogs are on the web, which is some ephemeral technology that I don’t fully understand anyway, and can’t really comprehend in the same way that I can’t really comprehend a billion dollars. Meaningless. Therefore I write all kinds of things that I probably would never say or write in real life, because it tickles me and it doesn’t really do any harm anyway because in a few days the entry will be buried in the archives and the three people that have read it will be busy with other things.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Workshop Love

Has anyone else ever gotten this in a workshop critique:

"Overall, even though I didn't quite understand the storyline, or the point, the detail made it interesting to keep reading."

It's a first for me. I have to appreciate his honesty, and can't really be offended. At least he liked the detail...

2 Comments:

Blogger Jessie said...

Is this what someone said to you?

See--it's ok to be honest! I'm wondering what you ended up saying on that other paper. :)-

5:44 PM  
Blogger erin said...

he wrote it, which made it easier for him, I suppose. I couldn't help but laugh, after my dilemma this morning. i was, of course, ever diplomatic in my own critique :)

7:24 PM  

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