Got a new blog.
Going to start posting entries on it. Maybe tonight. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe during the next few days.
Invite-only. Haven't invited anyone yet since I haven't posted yet. Give me your email if you want in.
It's going to be for a memoir. I want to work on a memoir. I have a bad memory. It will be an exercise in memory. I will fill in the gaps with ridiculousness. Fact will merge with fiction. I will not do any research. I will not ask my parents questions. It will be written out out order.
If published, it will be under a nom de plume. I will not feel restricted by my own name. My own name will not dictate what I can and cannot write about.
The working title is the same as this entry's. Good title, but too close to the title of another memoir that came out a while ago. And I don't want the work in progress title to match up with the published title.
I feel weird. Probably won't start it tonight. Trying to get back into my wacky sleep schedule.
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yes, please. sounds like it will be interesting stuff. writing one's life story is strange anyway. hey, check out Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard). it'll be good warm up. you send him your life story and he writes it again on a postcard and sends it to you. i sent him mine, but i think i rambled on forever and i wonder if it's usable. i'd like to read your memior/fiction/memories though.
I don't think I could summarize my life story in so few words. Maybe, "Bradley Sands was born. Bradley Sands continues to live."
Or maybe I'd just list the places that I have lived, the schools where I have learned, the jobs that I've had, the books that I've written. That's a little boring.
yeah, i'm not entirely sure how the five rambling pages is going to be distilled down to be able to fit on a postcard, but i'm interested to see. i mean, five pages is already superdistilled. we'll see.
you don't give yourself enough credit. you must have some interesting personal experience or you wouldn't be embarking on the memoir/fiction, right? i'm just saying.
Yeah, I could do five rambling pages, but not something short. I'm too long-winded. I was thinking that one page would be more appropriate.
you're right, one page probably is more appropriate. but i am long-winded, too, especially when talking about myself. i get tangled and talk in circles and say 'i don't know' a lot.
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