People. I mostly blog on htmlgiant. But I wanted to have a little "pr" thing on the sidebar like all the other contributors. Now I feel more "part of it."
I'm only posting your nice comments!
Lots of Kisses,
pr
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i liked your post on jereme's page today. and i think you are right. you named three people right away who are, of course, without even knowing "why," my favorites. I've often been told I draw like Schiele, I love to read Kafka, and I loved your repulsion at being asked by an editor if you were "okay." I get that all the time. Somehow people who write perverted crime stories for CSI are "normal" but we who write about feelings of exclusion, etc. are not? I don't buy it.
ReplyDeletethanks frostingandfire! That is very nice of you!
ReplyDeletethe latter half of your cannibalism post on giant increasingly read like the neurophysiological description of heroin: the opiate receptors in the brain govern hunger, the mother-infant bond, sex and pain. the hardwired intertwining of these 4 elements intrigues me endlessly, and i believe holds one of the essential keys to understanding the human condition.
ReplyDeletei haven't been able to successfully integrate this fact into my writing, but your post brought all four elements into a sort alignment or climax: the sequence from sacrifice (pain) to eating (hunger) on to erotic love and finally child rearing, it seriously built into something beyond the previous topic and yet including the previous and thereby gaining momentum and acceleration and culminating in a four-headed hindu deity.
i don't see your email listed, so perhaps you will not consider this, but would you be willing to share any fiction or non-fiction you've written which contains the themes or views of motherhood as you've experienced it? i've put aside a novel a year ago, but i still collect and make notes for it, which deals with the topics mentioned above, and i am most ignorant of the motherhood perspective, but you had seamlessly integrated that into your post, and any further perspectives of yours on the topic (it doesn't have to contain the other themes) would be enormously helpful. sorry this is so long, didn't know where else to post it.
Hey Keith, I can't tell you how pleased I am that you liked my post. I had a real moment there, where things crystallized for me, and it felt really "right" writing that post. So I am so happy you liked it. Thank you. And thanks for all your thoughtful words. I am just thrilled with them.
ReplyDeleteI write about motherhood in my fiction a lot (lots of short pieces have been published in small mags). I'm not quite comfortable combining my "pr" persona with me yet. It's a matter of time I guess. But I've been so outrageaous and silly and have SOOO much fun being pr- the real me is much more boring. Anyway, Thanks for commenting again. I enjoy your blog and we'll stay in touch.
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ReplyDeleteI'd love to send you a copy of my new book just out from Six Gallery Press. If you want to send me a mailing address at scottmcclanahan@hotmail.com--I'll send you one.
Scott! I sent you my address via a crappy emai though- so do let me know if you got it-otherwise I'll use a different email. Looking forward!
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