Immaterialism

My tree is falling in the forest, and I wouldn’t mind if someone were there to hear it.

photo by Don DeBold

I’ve been reluctant to start blogging. For one thing, I do cherish my privacy. Blogging portends to a more public life, even if it is just a small circle of people who might happen to find me. Plus there is so much dribble out there, people piecing their opinions together in little posts, blathering on about the minutia of their lives. I didn’t see the point in blogging; I was writing a real book.

But let’s face it. My agent – though very sweet – hasn’t been much help to me in the publishing department. It’s time to take matters into my own hands. I need to express myself; I want to see my words on a page. So why not an electronic one?

Eventually, I could imagine publishing my manuscript serially on my website. I’m warming up to that. But first, I’ve decided to take the plunge and just see what happens when I start blogging. Post by post.

So consider this a gentle solicitation: if you have any interest whatsoever in what I have to write about, then please follow my blog, or even just bookmark it and take a moment once in a while to check out what I’m managing to press out into the ether.

(p.s. this was my very first post!)

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One Response to “Immaterialism”

  • Wampole Says:
    January 25th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    Hurrah! You’re here! Welcome to the Wonderful World of Blogging (much less dangerous than its wrestling counterpart!)
    I know what you mean about the privacy issue…and it’s something which I too have wrestled with (though not on the WWWF, cf above). But it becomes a fun sort of game to see what you do and don’t reveal on a blog – sort of like deciding how much cleavage or leg to show. You can be as buttoned up or as risque as you like. Heck, you can even wear a giant trench coat and incognito glasses. But enough of my metaphors….I’m glad you’re writing, i’m glad you’re here!

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