tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post2859547405532578015..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Our Lady of the Broken WingsAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-42296265552530774622013-02-24T21:16:30.088-05:002013-02-24T21:16:30.088-05:00Hi renee!
Actually as I crawl towards geezerdom i...Hi renee!<br /><br />Actually as I crawl towards geezerdom i have pretty complex thoughts about death.<br /><br />Do you listen to Fresh Air on NPR? There was a very interesting interview a couple days ago with the author of "Erasing Death". He is a doctor who specilizes in resusitation medicene, bringing people back successfully and more or less intact after their heart has stopped beating and flat lined. He makes the point that even after they're clinically dead there are some people, roughly 1 in a 1000, who keep on experiemcing consciousness independently of brain activity. Consequently there must be something that still goes on.<br /><br />It's interesting that you still feel the prescence of your family members (I know who). You must tell me about that.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-82973673829228422312013-02-24T09:05:52.875-05:002013-02-24T09:05:52.875-05:00I'm late reading this . I love this character ...I'm late reading this . I love this character and mostly how you describe her interior relationship to you. I have something like this going on in my head too, with a cast of characters and I understand the angst you are expressing about the conflict of getting her story out vs. keeping her close to you.<br /><br />I love Fiona's wise words. Great advice. <br /><br />One more comment about the afterlife. I notice you describe heaven and hell as the two options and in dismissing them, you seem to be dismissing any kind of afterlife at all. I entertain the notion that there is another form of existence after death, not like what any of our current religions may proclaim, but something. Something about nature abhorring a vacuum, makes it hard for me to believe in nothing but a void after death. Everything moves in cycles, in circular fashions. Also, the fact that I have been happily haunted after the recent deaths of my three family members, well, that has something to do with it. I don't imagine any of them in heaven, nor in hell, but I still feel them. Renee at Dad's American Beautyhttp://reneetamara.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-89601885919480873962013-02-18T08:39:50.695-05:002013-02-18T08:39:50.695-05:00Hi Lisabet!
I think what it is about the story i ...Hi Lisabet!<br /><br />I think what it is about the story i have in my head is that it has images that are compelling to me and it could potentially be a good story. I would like to write more stories about her though. I don;t want it to end.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-62698876805269264072013-02-18T08:38:31.523-05:002013-02-18T08:38:31.523-05:00Hi Fiona! Thanks, I appreciate it. I know she...Hi Fiona! Thanks, I appreciate it. I know she's in there somewhere, and when I begin work on the story I always enjoy it, I just need to get the steam going again.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-4546176588981634402013-02-14T02:42:53.633-05:002013-02-14T02:42:53.633-05:00Hello, Garce,
I think Fiona may be right. You'...Hello, Garce,<br /><br />I think Fiona may be right. You're struggling to write this story on a conscious level, to figure it out like a puzzle. Every time I read a snippet, it morphs, as if you're attacking it from one side and then another - like the fighter in The Peanut Butter Shot, evaluating, weighing tactics, pondering which ideas and images to use and which ones to leave out.<br /><br />Why not let Nixie tell her own story, without your intervention? Maybe you could try writing the tale in the first person. Let us see the beginning of her odyssey through her own eyes.<br /><br />Also - there's no reason that this story has to be goodbye to Nixie. She is a sufficiently rich vision - and she has lived long enough! - that she could feature in half a dozen more tales.<br /><br /><br />Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-826830886766795092013-02-13T20:12:09.134-05:002013-02-13T20:12:09.134-05:00I love this character of yours. I think you shoul...I love this character of yours. I think you shouldn't thing about publishing at all. Just tell her, while you are falling asleep, or when you wake in the middle of the night to change positions, that you want to know all that she has to tell you. Then when you wake up, sit and write. Garbage, garbled, etc. Just write. I think you might be right about her being an inner voice of some kind, but I don't think you have forgiven yourself for "losing your way"...Just give her lee-way to tell you what she has to say, through your fingertips. She will. Don't even think about grammatical, or what anyone else will think. The very best writing happens when it's only between you and the character struggling for life, living only in your mind.<br /><br />Good luck!Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.com