I love this idea and your warm voice! I just finished a memoir called You Could Make This Place Beautiful by the poet Maggie Smith. I’m childless by choice and have never been divorced, even so, I couldn’t stop reading about her divorce and kids. For fiction, I’m just starting Kathryn Dodson’s Portrait of Deception. She’s got me hooked!
Ohhhhh. Thank you for both these recommendations, Marta. Of course, I'm a Kathryn fan (in fact she and I are on the Tues "Write-in" right now - lol! And I've been meaning to pick up Maggie's. I appreciate the nudge!
"The closer I get to feeling like I’m talking to you, the more I feel as though I’m writing in my voice. " I feel this way too when I write a post. It is just how I communicate. It is me.
yes I'm a reader through and through. And one of the ways I know is how much reading has become a pattern in my behavior. Pretty much every night I will crawl into bed sometime around 9-10 and read until midnight. It's almost a ritual for me - dog at my side, lights low, a detuning for the day. It's not so much WHAT I'm reading as the fact that that is what I do in the last 2-3 hours before I sleep.
I love this, Maggie. I hadn't thought of what you said before - how getting lost in a story is a way to mentally decompress from the day by entering another mental space. My problem is that if I'm too tired I may only manage a page or two!
I love this idea and your warm voice! I just finished a memoir called You Could Make This Place Beautiful by the poet Maggie Smith. I’m childless by choice and have never been divorced, even so, I couldn’t stop reading about her divorce and kids. For fiction, I’m just starting Kathryn Dodson’s Portrait of Deception. She’s got me hooked!
Ohhhhh. Thank you for both these recommendations, Marta. Of course, I'm a Kathryn fan (in fact she and I are on the Tues "Write-in" right now - lol! And I've been meaning to pick up Maggie's. I appreciate the nudge!
"The closer I get to feeling like I’m talking to you, the more I feel as though I’m writing in my voice. " I feel this way too when I write a post. It is just how I communicate. It is me.
Thank you, Mary! Sometimes our own voice can be so elusive. I'm enjoying getting to know yours too.
Thank you so much! It is scary every time I publish something, but that fear is how i know it is real.
yes I'm a reader through and through. And one of the ways I know is how much reading has become a pattern in my behavior. Pretty much every night I will crawl into bed sometime around 9-10 and read until midnight. It's almost a ritual for me - dog at my side, lights low, a detuning for the day. It's not so much WHAT I'm reading as the fact that that is what I do in the last 2-3 hours before I sleep.
I love this, Maggie. I hadn't thought of what you said before - how getting lost in a story is a way to mentally decompress from the day by entering another mental space. My problem is that if I'm too tired I may only manage a page or two!