I have blundered into the problem with an open, online existence. How do you say the things that you need to when everyone is watching? How does an author control her readers?
Now I of all people know that you shouldn't put things online that you're not willing to let anyone in the world read. But there's a difference between putting something out there for anyone to read and putting something out there with your name on it for anyone to read. But is an anonymous existence the same? What happens when you lose your readers? Does a text matter if no one reads it?
I planned to come home and write tonight, but I couldn't figure out how. The more I think about it, the more silenced I feel by my circumstances. It's been a very hard month, and I'm not sure whether the right thing to do is stand up and write the story or scrawl it away secretly. Unfortunately, I don't have the answer.
Posted Friday, 24-Aug-2007 17:08:08 PDT
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