Posts under ‘Writing’

Two recent emails have really stroked my ego and scratched my chin. In both, a woman I’ve never met from who knows where has asked me some personal questions. She said she stumbled upon my blog and got sucked into my life. “I was telling my husband about you and my e-mail and he was like, those are awfully personal questions to be asking someone you don’t know. I said I feel like I know her! I feel like I read a good book yesterday with really interesting characters.”

Amanda’s MsAdventures turned one year old on Saturday. I celebrated by seeing two movies and gazing down at Times Square from a terrace many, many stories off the ground.

In a very cool turn of events, I’ve just found out that I was linked on a blog much bigger than mine. A blog I’ve read since freshman year of college. The blog that originated The Big Three idea and was written about in the New York Post last year when its author, Kelly Kreth, was serendipitously dooced.

I took this interview from a website and added a few questions of my own. This is a modern version of man’s search for meaning.

It gets hard to write, because in the musculature of my hands, sinews of my arms, pulsing freeways of my brain, and endless “ink” of my keyboard, all is potential. There’s no greater burden, no greater freedom.

I was talking to my mom tonight about my writing, or lack thereof. “Look at the great writers - they’re all depressed alcoholics,” I said. It can be difficult to write when you are content. My mom still mildly nagged and reminded me that I’m in New York City, the home of most major publishers, and I’m not really trying to sell my writing. Mind you, I would need time to write a book I’d even consider trying to send out, but I could at least submit an article or five.