A Long, Strange Trip

Monday, June 25, 2012

Test post.

Posted by Laurie Blair at 4:10 PM

Laurie Blair: I started two blogs: “Careful, Or You’ll End Up In My Novel” (title stolen from a T-shirt logo) where I’m trying to see how some of my previous writing looks in print, and get feedback. I kind of neglect this blog though. (I don't know why because I'm fond of it.) My second, “Help, My Compass Broke,” was meant to be a blank canvas for new writing in hopes that a creative vein that’s been sealed for a while might open up again. That's why the posts on "Help" are more akin to essays than typical blog posts. I now have a third blog, believe it or not: "A Wrinkle In Time." I needed a fresh start, a new invention. It's been an interesting voyage -- finding my "voice,” and finding others’. I’ve been wanting to “write without a condom” as a fellow blogger plainly put it, and if I can master that, I can take the journals and pages and pages of memoir I’ve written out of the file cabinet drawer and really look at them again. And maybe put them together in cohesive form...and maybe do something with them. These stories need to come to light...and I own these stories, if I can only be curious, funny, disciplined and brave.

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