tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post1171708266990414160..comments2024-03-28T14:12:07.313+00:00Comments on A Writer's Life: Writing in PeraltaKathleen Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-80362720890362337932010-05-24T13:45:54.695+01:002010-05-24T13:45:54.695+01:00So glad you did Johanna - and thank you for your c...So glad you did Johanna - and thank you for your comments. 'writing your own truth' is a good phrase for the process of writing autobiography.<br />Thanks for your thoughts too Wendy and Al. I'm now thinking about all the different 'I's! The great thing is that you can have so many different personas for different aspects of your personality.<br />On academic writing, Wendy, I think it has a lot to answer for. Why can't you put forward your own opinion, your own conclusion and own it honestly?Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-10391497399987260952010-05-22T23:30:42.096+01:002010-05-22T23:30:42.096+01:00Your post is so true...I lack the courage to write...Your post is so true...I lack the courage to write a memoir or personal story - though I teeter on the edge of it with all my stories. I often wonder if my success will eventually lie in finding the courage to break free of my fear and write my own truth...<br /><br />Wonderfully thought provoking post...so glad I stumbled upon your blog.Josiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01891614490103342485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-25166154813524147172010-05-22T13:39:21.750+01:002010-05-22T13:39:21.750+01:00Oddly though I tend to write my fiction in first p...Oddly though I tend to write my fiction in first person. Even if it means multiple narrators to get through a story!Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-6079518535908082152010-05-20T21:30:43.856+01:002010-05-20T21:30:43.856+01:00What a wonderful gig, Kathleen, working with keen ...What a wonderful gig, Kathleen, working with keen writers in such a place...<br /><br />About the dreaded 'I' word - well in a way it carries just another story - more authentic for its basic truths, perhaps. I recently posted about the taboos associated with putting one's head above the parapet. I suppose entering th dreaded 'I' world is leaping over the parapet. This has to happen in posting blogs or they would be - and sometimes are - tawdry and artificial. <br />In the academic world the 'I' word can bring down plumes of fire in one's head lest the dreaded (overestimated and often spurious) 'objectivity' of the scientific approach is breached.<br />In all our writing the dreaded 'I' is buried beneath the story, the biography, even the academic monograph, although she may go by some other third-person name.<br />So thought provoking! And on a Thursday night too. Thank you Kathy<br />wxxxWendy Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532817003318632539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-47094380794473736592010-05-18T10:55:18.590+01:002010-05-18T10:55:18.590+01:00A beautiful post as always.
No doubt partly inspir...A beautiful post as always.<br />No doubt partly inspired by your current locale.<br />How I would love to attend one of your workshops, especially in such a location.<br />Bread and fresh olive oil and for that matter any other Italian food - heaven.<br /><br />I sympathise with your difficulty at autobiography. I quite enjoy posting my little anecdotes on my blog, but writing anything in a more serious way seems too intimate.Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com