I think I must have been snoring away on the couch while this was going on. What I'm noticing is how very far both you and your dad have come in healing your relationship. I pray for continued healing and wellness for you.
U R already blogging!ext_723534July 22 2011, 22:22:33 UTC
Loving learning about your family/living arrangements. Shows compassion, love, respect, problem-solving, all good stuff. You will have readers, and you will manage to touch someone's life. When you talk to Johnny B. Truant, ask him about porting your LJ entries, even if it's on a 2nd level page. Or link to your LJ body of work. Or go through (lots of work) your posts and link to specific ones that complement your new blog posts (Ali has a good example--"if you liked this post, you might enjoy reading this: [URL link to LJ posts]. Havi Brooks does the same thing on The Fluent Self. You ARE a writer!
Re: U R already blogging!peaceofpieJuly 22 2011, 22:28:53 UTC
Thanks, Claudia!
I thought about this a few months ago, and tried to go back and read through my old LJ entries to find where I could make good bridges between what I was writing then and things that could be blog material now. The problem was that, because the writing was so raw and in-the-moment then, it was actually too painful for me to read it. The purpose that writing served at the time was to get a lot of really intense emotional experiences OUT of me, so it was overwhelming to try to put them back "in" by reading them, and that turned out to be kind of unhealthy and I had to stop doing it.
And I also know that a lot of my past experiences COULD make really good blog material, and that people would probably get a lot out of reading them, if I could find a way to write about them NOW that doesn't take me back to the unhealthy place.
I love Havi's blog! It's one of my favorites. :) Do you have a blog, too?
I'm excited to get a WordPress blog, though, and will either link back to FOP or transport old posts to archive. Not yet familiar with either LJ or WP.
BTW, WordPress is presently the only blogging platform that is accessible. That's one of my big issues--accessibility. So I feel like a good girl using WP!
Accessibility is one of my big issues too! Can you tell me what features WP has that makes it accessible (and to whom)? Do you have particular areas of accessibility that you focus on (in your writing and/or activism)? I'd love to talk with you more about that.
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I thought about this a few months ago, and tried to go back and read through my old LJ entries to find where I could make good bridges between what I was writing then and things that could be blog material now. The problem was that, because the writing was so raw and in-the-moment then, it was actually too painful for me to read it. The purpose that writing served at the time was to get a lot of really intense emotional experiences OUT of me, so it was overwhelming to try to put them back "in" by reading them, and that turned out to be kind of unhealthy and I had to stop doing it.
And I also know that a lot of my past experiences COULD make really good blog material, and that people would probably get a lot out of reading them, if I could find a way to write about them NOW that doesn't take me back to the unhealthy place.
I love Havi's blog! It's one of my favorites. :) Do you have a blog, too?
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I'm excited to get a WordPress blog, though, and will either link back to FOP or transport old posts to archive. Not yet familiar with either LJ or WP.
BTW, WordPress is presently the only blogging platform that is accessible. That's one of my big issues--accessibility. So I feel like a good girl using WP!
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