Writers' Notes
  • MIZZ PAW'S BLOBs and excerpts
    • Blog - THE PLOT IS in the BEAT
    • Mother's Day - Good Riddance
    • Response to me sister's response about I'm WalkingHere Blob
    • I'M WALKING HERE!
    • 2/26 Blog HIATUS, extinction, parents
    • Blob 2/16/13
    • Happy Valentine's Day GRANDMA You're going to Jail
    • 5/6/12 Writing in my sleep
    • 5/1/12 Baby Vilho found a home
    • 4/11/12 excerpt:Letter to my Therapist
    • 2/25/12 Writing baby
    • 2/22/12 to barbara BOMBED REINDEER >
      • Another email from Barbara
    • 2/18/12 the BEATS
    • 2/12/12 Genrecast. What genre are you?
    • 2/13/12 DO NOT WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW!
    • 2/9/12 Raw footage protection
    • 2/8/12 So, what's it about?
    • 2/7/12 Ewwww!
    • 2/4/12 Writers block and Shooting Apples
  • excerpts from 17 preface
  • Excerpts from 17
    • His Head Was Found at the Driver's Wheel
    • GRANDMA'S NIGHT OUT
    • Excerpt 2 His Head Was Found at the Driver's Wheel
    • Vilho Continues his Story at the Golden Spike Snippet
    • Does the Boy Miss His Mother?
    • THE LITTLE INSURGENTS THEY CALLED US
    • scare all the girls
    • Deb de la Rosa Is Too Ladylike for This
    • ANA AND TUNNELMAN
    • Tunnelman and the Moonletts Amerika East
  • uh...about me, sort of
  • Croatia, Home war
  • GRANDMA'S NIGHT OUT

Eeeew!

2/7/2012

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THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PAINTING  OF A BEAUTIFUL THING AND A BEAUTIFUL PAINTING.
                                                                                     - Ferdinand Leger -

Twitter just gave me a chilly surprise up and down my spine. Haven't had one like that since I was involved in the Slam Poetry Performance combat zone. I am new to Twitter posting. It's been raved about as the greatest means of communication since sex (I exaggerate). What I found after posting, on my Twitter account, the URL of my Chapter One of SEVENTEEN excerpt is - change the "sex" to Slam bam thank you m'am. Which isn't so bad if you see it coming, so to speak. Apparently a self described atheist  writer of wordy diatribes on alcohol recovery and other theosophical concepts, didn't like my excerpt. I shall call him "Recovering." The manner in which Recovery expressed his disdain provided a lesson to me about not exposing work until you are totally prepared for the shit that may come. Unless you don't care about your "child."

"Recovering" says - and I can't quote directly because I deleted him from my account - he said he was tired of genocide and incest writing and that this "bible" (referring to the fictitious "Tunnelman Bible" quoted at the top of the chapter) should be tagged as offensive. "Recovering" was "retweeted" by a follower with a moniker something like "Yonquill". She replied "Eeew." in, like, total agreement. I am thinking that I put out feelers and snagged one boiled troll and a plastic flower. How many such trolls and plastics are out there if two pop up within hours?  Or were those it?

Thus, to paraphrase Ferdinand's words above about "beauty."  There is a difference between bad writing and writing about something bad.

Do we no longer write about bad things because a couple of readers may think bad things are like totally - Ewwww? 



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