Post by Vicki Pettersson on Oct 24, 2010 10:40:49 GMT -5
Look, Peeps! I'm not late! ;D
Here's your November thread a full five days early. OMG, I'm so On. It!
Take that, Vampy.
Seriously, I'm really not the kind of person who goes running off at the mouth when they have nothing to say. I'm not terribly talkative (for a girl) and tend to take after my father that way. I also safe all my best ideas for the page. If I have something witty come across my temporal lobe, I don't dump it on twitter for immediate gratification. I hoard it like the mentally selfish soul I am. You guys ever see that show "Hoarders"? That's me, but in mental snippets.
Knowing that about myself, I finally decided to delete my Twitter account. This was actually a difficult decision because if publishing had its way - and it often does - I'd be doing *everything* I could on the varying social networking sites to keep ever in my readers' eyes and minds.
Eh.
How about this instead ... I keep my ideas to myself until they ripen into full fledged text, and at that point you can decide whether you want to read it or not? Frankly, I'd rather spend my time bettering my books so that anyone who spends 7.99 of their hard spent dollars knows that they're getting something well-considered, and not cobbled together between tweets.
Oy, that got a little ranty ... and I didn't mean for it to. Sorry.
I've also been MIA because I've been reading a book called THE SHALLOWS, which is about the Internet's effect on our brains. It's sobering, to say the least. In any case, I've cut down on my overall time plugged in ... and not just to the net as well. In efforts to be present in my own life, I've ceased taking my phone to the playground and wearing my headphones while working out ... just freeing up mental space to get in touch with my own mind again. Thinking time is my yoga, and when my mind is too crowded with others' thoughts and input, I mentally coil up in a ball in the corner and rock. Instead, I want to stretch, reach, and create new thoughts (and thereby stories) of my own. Makie sensie?
So it's not for everyone, but I can tell you this much - it feels good to *me*.
That doesn't mean I won't be here, of course. This board, Facebook, and my newsletter/site are my main outlets to the world, but when not here? I really want to be present in my own life too, yanno?
Blah, blah.
Anyone up for a snippet? I have what was supposed to be the beginning of CHEAT THE GRAVE, and it's a scene from Harlan Tripp's pov, but for creative purposes and immediacy, it was cut in the final draft. I'm going to update the site in a few days, and I'll include it there ... but link to it from here. Sound good?
So wassup w/you Peeps now that it's November.
Here's your November thread a full five days early. OMG, I'm so On. It!
Take that, Vampy.
Seriously, I'm really not the kind of person who goes running off at the mouth when they have nothing to say. I'm not terribly talkative (for a girl) and tend to take after my father that way. I also safe all my best ideas for the page. If I have something witty come across my temporal lobe, I don't dump it on twitter for immediate gratification. I hoard it like the mentally selfish soul I am. You guys ever see that show "Hoarders"? That's me, but in mental snippets.
Knowing that about myself, I finally decided to delete my Twitter account. This was actually a difficult decision because if publishing had its way - and it often does - I'd be doing *everything* I could on the varying social networking sites to keep ever in my readers' eyes and minds.
Eh.
How about this instead ... I keep my ideas to myself until they ripen into full fledged text, and at that point you can decide whether you want to read it or not? Frankly, I'd rather spend my time bettering my books so that anyone who spends 7.99 of their hard spent dollars knows that they're getting something well-considered, and not cobbled together between tweets.
Oy, that got a little ranty ... and I didn't mean for it to. Sorry.
I've also been MIA because I've been reading a book called THE SHALLOWS, which is about the Internet's effect on our brains. It's sobering, to say the least. In any case, I've cut down on my overall time plugged in ... and not just to the net as well. In efforts to be present in my own life, I've ceased taking my phone to the playground and wearing my headphones while working out ... just freeing up mental space to get in touch with my own mind again. Thinking time is my yoga, and when my mind is too crowded with others' thoughts and input, I mentally coil up in a ball in the corner and rock. Instead, I want to stretch, reach, and create new thoughts (and thereby stories) of my own. Makie sensie?
So it's not for everyone, but I can tell you this much - it feels good to *me*.
That doesn't mean I won't be here, of course. This board, Facebook, and my newsletter/site are my main outlets to the world, but when not here? I really want to be present in my own life too, yanno?
Blah, blah.
Anyone up for a snippet? I have what was supposed to be the beginning of CHEAT THE GRAVE, and it's a scene from Harlan Tripp's pov, but for creative purposes and immediacy, it was cut in the final draft. I'm going to update the site in a few days, and I'll include it there ... but link to it from here. Sound good?
So wassup w/you Peeps now that it's November.