tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4869527318255268135.post9106429291910241511..comments2023-07-30T01:32:13.498-07:00Comments on Jodi Henley: A core of consistencyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14553958040386480998noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4869527318255268135.post-75670196468487563742007-12-15T22:58:00.000-08:002007-12-15T22:58:00.000-08:00LOL. He's already got his picture in your blog, d...LOL. He's already got his picture in your blog, doesn't he? Give him a cameo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4869527318255268135.post-87805681062765504992007-12-15T22:41:00.000-08:002007-12-15T22:41:00.000-08:00btw--not sure how I'd feel if my family read my bl...btw--not sure how I'd feel if my family read my blog. I think--sometimes even people who love you don't always know who and what you are. People are constructs. You show aspects of yourself to different people. Mother, daughter, wife and friend. I'm not the same Jodi to my husband and Cowboy--and I'm not Jodi to my kids.<BR/><BR/>And I try not to write about my Mom--but Cowboy wants a cameo. So what's up with that? :'Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14553958040386480998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4869527318255268135.post-50088237550769605812007-12-15T22:36:00.000-08:002007-12-15T22:36:00.000-08:00lol, Alice. Maybe that's why it's hard for me to r...lol, Alice. Maybe that's why it's hard for me to read it, and I tend to read your other blog entries. It's also why I skip over sex scenes from people I know. And if I do read them I get this weirded out feeling of...er, weirded-out ness.<BR/><BR/>But yeah--I know what you mean, Dayna. Good writing sells, but great writing verberates and lingers on in your mind when everything else is done and the book is closed. It's why some first books are so fabulously fine. Like Bujolds Shards of Honor, and Jim Butcher's Storm Front--they dig down so deep, it's like writing in blood. All the structure and voice and sound--all laid out bare. Storm Front is a little awkward, and Shards of Honor is naked, but maybe it's not pyscho-analyzing your demons, but knowing those pieces of you and wanting so much to fix what went wrong that you're not writing from the outside in--but the inside out. Shadow-boxing maybe. Or Demon-hunter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14553958040386480998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4869527318255268135.post-54406790281959666032007-12-15T15:35:00.000-08:002007-12-15T15:35:00.000-08:00We can't help but put a little of ourselves in wha...We can't help but put a little of ourselves in what we write, cathartic or not. It comes with the teritory.<BR/><BR/>It think that's part of why writing the Suzie's House blogs gets a bit intense for me sometimes. When I'm putting the blasted thing up minutes after I wrote it I don't have time to back up and think how it's coming across. I just cross my fingers and hope for the best.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4869527318255268135.post-68224105676074584622007-12-15T14:43:00.000-08:002007-12-15T14:43:00.000-08:00lol Sorry. Sort of. I guess the parts of my charac...lol Sorry. Sort of. <BR/><BR/>I guess the parts of my characters that are me...are pretty superficial. Like I get flustered in most social situations. And I really really really hate bugs. <BR/><BR/>But I wrote about a burner recently. Someone who physically couldn't feel unless it was pain...and that's not me, yknow? I mean...I can't even make the Freudian jump and figure out what I have that is even remotely the same. <BR/><BR/>And I found out some real-life people have read my blog once or twice. That freaked me out. I wrote oatmeal entries for a while after that. Yknow, filling, but not really much in the way of flavour.<BR/><BR/>And we all have demons...but I'm not sure we write about them as...explicitly...as people would like to think. Even when I write about stuff which has, actually happened to me...it's not intended to be autobiographical. I hesitate to write characters who have strained relationships with their mothers, b/c my mom would totally read into that, yknow? (And I rather like Mom.) <BR/><BR/>So, even when I write a character who doesn't get along with her sister (and I can relate...) it isn't so much about me excising that shtuff from my own life...but finding a way to relate to the character.<BR/><BR/>Gah. Did any of that make any sense whatsoever? I'm suddenly feeling pseudo-intellectual, which would suggest it didn't ;)Dayna_Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911207081058418496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4869527318255268135.post-33512115460069119692007-12-15T10:47:00.000-08:002007-12-15T10:47:00.000-08:00because it's good to ramble. Nobody I know in real...because it's good to ramble. Nobody I know in real-life reads my blog except for Cowboy, and I can spill all the stuff I normally wouldn't say to the people who see me one way and expect me to stay that way.<BR/><BR/>I don't think they'll like my book. And I know they won't like my people.<BR/><BR/>...but demons? Yeah, I've got some, and for me--maybe writing really is about some deep seated need to explore stuff. Little bits of me are in all my characters, even the bad ones, and the ones like Rafe, that seem okay on the surface.<BR/><BR/>I dunno.<BR/><BR/>You're asking a hard question this early in the day. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14553958040386480998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4869527318255268135.post-63987263643403559582007-12-15T10:40:00.000-08:002007-12-15T10:40:00.000-08:00*sigh* I've been writing a lot of 'damaged' charac...*sigh* I've been writing a lot of 'damaged' characters lately. On the brink of being broken. I'm not sure what that's about.<BR/><BR/>And y'know...I hate when people try to use my characters to psycho-analyze me...like the fact I'm writing about these damaged people is somehow...a 'damage' of my own. <BR/><BR/>On the other hand...it really is like...reading someone's psych file or something...getting to know someone more intimately then you'd ordinarily know anyone...it's fascinating. So no, I'm not using my writing to exorcise my own demons...I'm just using it to 'get to know people'. I still don't think my family would approve of my social life ;)<BR/><BR/>Why do I always ramble on your blog?Dayna_Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911207081058418496noreply@blogger.com