Letting go of fiction
It turns out that there is an entire field, or at least sub-field, of inquiry devoted to the types of questions about digital archives I was rubbing up against in my previous post. To get a small taste...
View ArticleWriting and logic
I haven’t been writing. I’m applying to graduate school, to study something related but different from what I’ve worked on all these years, and between reading and talking to people and researching...
View ArticleThe oldtimer
For me, writing and speaking seem to be very different pathways to getting words out. When I write, I don’t necessarily hear the words in my head before I mark them on the paper. When I am writing...
View ArticleOn record-keeping
Thinking about the reasons why people choose to engage in or disengage from certain types of narrative or archives of their own experience. I mean this both in terms of making records (public or...
View ArticleConfessional as radical
More people are talking about ‘confessional’ writing as a radical feminist movement these days. Exciting, but doesn’t the term ‘confessional’ imply that we ought to feel ashamed, that we do feel...
View ArticleIn which we start with the now and fill in the past later
My backup therapist is impressed by the amount of trauma I’ve experienced, this year alone, and when I start talking about my past she practically has to use her hand to keep her jaw from dropping....
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