like ships and submarines
I am unsure about this blog, and blogs in general. I am beginning to work on a book (yes, but don't ask about it...yet) and the blog feels fussy and unnecessary. Parenthetical, even. Trivial. I feel myself becoming less interested in sharing my writing this way. Maybe I am growing more internal or distrustful of this type of writing and its implications. Maybe I am a shrinking violet right now. Maybe I just done growed up.
The coming weeks and months will tell. I'll let her hang in space for a bit. To satiate potential desires until I decide, I give you a Joan Didion quote; her writing is the primary reason I feel this nagging desire to commit to a book, or at the very least to return to the real meat of writing, that thing that wakes you up at night with ideas and steals hours from your day. The obsessiveness of craft.
That last bit sounds awfully pretentious, or nerdy, or self-involved, or a combination therein. Ah well. If this is to be the end of the blog, might as well indulge in some of that (I'd not be a true blogger if I didn't).
Ahem. The (apropos) quote. Miss Didion, if you please:
"We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."
posted by Kaitlin @ 2:16 AM
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