Feb
Rocked Socks
Ideas are going to be the death of me. I’ve starved myself of caffeine for over a year now and my muse is still talking thirty miles a minute. It’s beautiful and unfair. As a writer I love having the extra surplus of random story telling that constantly rolls through my mind but as a whatever else I am I feel this urge to try to finish projects. I never it in school but man do I feel it in my writing.
Anyways, I have another idea. I’m going to buy another web domain and possibly sell or park one of my other ones. The second bit is a second undecided story for another time. As for the new one…
I bought Written-Whispers to use as a writing website. WW was the name of a blog I’d started and evolved from on Blogger. My idea at the time had been to run my blog on one part of this domain, like I am, and run the writing related stuff (the writing stuff not related so intimately with my life) on the other side but it seems I’m having trouble doing that. On one hand I don’t want the extra attention here on my blog- I do and I don’t. I want to be found by people seeking, but the writing end of things I want to be found by everyone.
On another hand, I don’t want the two bleeding over into each other or overlapping each other. Another hand is that I want to do sooo much more with a writing website (forum, active prompts, guest posting, etc) that I just don’t want to be connected to my more intimate writing unless I’m specific about it.
*sigh* So, anyways. I’m thinking of buying another domain. I already know I can manage multiple sites, create my own template, and get visitors as easy as dropping a coin into a hat. I’m no newb on that side of things, but I’m still not sure if I’m ready. I want to have the idea and direction as complete in my head as I can manage before I run gallivanting off down the path but that’s always easier said than done.
My idea is mostly geared towards ‘writing out the darkness’ and stitching old wounds up with words. I can relate to it and I know enough about it. I want to give people- like me, like you- a place to find. I want to share my opinions on the writing world not from the perspective of a publisher, a professional, a frequently published author, or someone who’s taken classes but as someone who writes because they need to. They need to in order to breathe. :) These people might be professions or just the average teen with a pen in her hand. Either way I want to be coming from that direction no matter what I put up there.
I want to collect others who’ve lived through scars so all of us who fall back into stories can see we’re not alone. :)
I’m thinking of calling it Scribble Twitch or something akin to that. Other name suggestions are welcome. :) I’ll be looking for a lot of help from various writer buddies or anyone with a writerly opinion to offer.
I had another thing I was going to write about in this post but I’ve forgotten it. Oh, well. Good thing I’m into multiple posting. Saw my friends tonight and responded to comments but I’ll write all about that jazz later on.
Peace, love, and wordly thoughts of doomification.
PS- Some kind soul resubscribed me for Poets & Writers magazine. YOU ROCK MY STRIPPED SOCKS!




05Feb
i wonder who would have thought you just had to have Poets & Writer’s? Hmmmmm i love this idea. i really want to help more people come to writing, perhaps I should do a post about this soon, about how it isn’t all about writing for publication. i still stand by this phrase “i write to free myself from myself”
and i am wearing striped socks right now!!!
05Feb
sounds like a wonderful, thoughtful idea, being both creative and helpful. :-)
05Feb
Hey, there’s a familiar face~
Thankies. :D It’s still a mental work in progress but the idea keeps poking at me so I’m thinking it will come to be sometime soon.
05Feb
!!!!! :D THANK YOU!!! I’m on chat with you right now so I’ll just glomp you over there.
I think publication is more like a side result, a perk to the writing process, but in the end it’s all about expression. Michelangelo didn’t sculpt for the profits alone- he began without a profit in the world. Raphael and Picasso- there is no soul on this earth that begins painting simply to end up in a gallery. There’s the need to express before the desire to share it with the world. :)
I like your phrase. I may have to quote you.
YESH! Stripped socks forever!