"I couldn't leave it alone! It was hanging down!" My OR hat, which I do have to iron a bit to make it fold in the right place.
I have the sense I have offended, bored, dismayed, some readers. Maybe, like me the last few weeks, some of you are just not feeling like talking. Maybe I've just not given you anything to respond to. There is an ebb and flow to life, connections. And I know by now that any momentary pseudopolularity is fleeting at best. Just as I visit some sites rarely, or at all, anymore. I've read what they had to say, and have nothing more, even inside myself, to respond with. Commonalities synchronize for a while, then dissipate. I worry, sometimes, that I should refrain from commenting on any site of a writer who used to visit, and does not anymore, that they would prefer to be left alone, as they leave me alone. It's so hard to tell in this medium.
12 comments:
I'm here, Z! Things are craaaazy around me in all arenas ... home, work, play. Uff. But I do enjoy dropping by One Word!
not everyone leaves their (o)
this lurgy leaves me inspirationless.
I apologize on its behalf!!
I don't think you have offended. As you say, ebb and flow.
Rou, gz,
I know, I do. Just, well, we all have doubtful days, you know?
I don't always leave a note or a stone, but I check in. You do not offend.
Me too, I am here, but quiet because life lately has been stealing my words -- as you probably noticed over at my moribund blog. Well then, if I have no words, at least I should leave a (o) of appreciation, because I do know how hard it all gets at times.
momentary pseudopopularity, ahhh what a dream, if I could only have that!
All I seem to ever get are fleeting moments of pico-popularity.
As for your sense of having offended or otherwise disenamoured one or more readers - perhaps it is your paranoia settling in. Give it an eviction notice.
See? It worked.
Crow,
Take care of yourself first. As mentioned, just a doubtful day.
alembic,
Honestly, I think I have about enough stones these days.
Phil,
But I am a PROFESSIONAL paranoid (do not try this at home.)
FM,
I really should just delete this post, but at this point it would feel very impolite.
Wish I wasn't too tired to say something profound right now, but I've known the feeling.
Pacian,
And I'm feeling guilty, because I've not had the wherewithal to read your recent fiction. I plan to, soon, but haven't yet.
It comes and goes, as you say. I always enjoy catching up here, and smiled at your worry about visiting former readers and imposing a sense of obligation, which is always one of my worries too, along with establishing new contacts.
@Z: If there's one thing I don't expect my visitors to read, it's my fiction - especially not the serial fiction, which is more writing exercise than anything else.
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