http://mxsketch.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:00:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://mxsketch.wordpress.com http://mxsketch.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/sometimes-i-want-to-ask/ http://mxsketch.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/sometimes-i-want-to-ask/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:00:47 +0000 worldrunsred http://mxsketch.wordpress.com/?p=20 ]]> My favourite authors [cough-Jessica Valenti (http://www.feministing.com) -cough] how they have the courage to write the things that mean somethign to them and that they think will mean something to the world. Sometimes I want to ask them how they are able to make themselves so vulnerable through their writing, and not care. Maybe it’s something that comes with age, or experience, maybe they’re just brave. I don’t know but it seems that writers today are braver than they’ve ever been and yet aren’t getting much recognition for it. Now, WordPress is being stupid, so I can’t hit enter and start another paragraph, so I’m just going to have to keep going in this one. I’m going to use these – | – things to indicate new paragraphs. | As I try to write my book I realize more and more often that it’s really hard to do so without including my personal experience to prove many of my points. I’m also noticing that it’s very hard to include personal experience when it’s things that my parents wouldn’t exactly take proudly, or even believe. I somehow am not under the impression that my parents would be thrilled with my history of drug use (since age 12) that they never knew about, or what I used to do to get those drugs. I somehow don’t think that, after all they’ve done for me, they would appreciate my critiques of their parenting practices and how that affected me negatively. Though I’m not really the kind of person who worries about what I can and can’t say and who it will anger, I do get uncomfortable when I know I’m going to upset or anger someone I have to live with day in and day out. But then I’m faced with this dilemma, because I truly think the information I have to say in my book is information that is worth being read. So I’m in this position of either providing information I think the world needs to hear, and putting myself through years of anguish, or not saying the things I feel need to be said and saving myself the anguish, but providing myself with lots of time to regret not saying them, and possibly having no foundation for this book whatsoever, and no content. I think more attention should be paid to people who write books that push boundaries and buttons and that make the writer vulnerable to opinions, family, friends and themselves.

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