I can’t say whether I shall ever write another word of story, planned-out fiction be it short form, novel, or new media format. Maybe I have ignored the furnace for too long and the bed of coals has cooled to unreadable cinders. But that’s all right, I think, because the greater loss is in my leaving life without the understanding of the greater words already written. Selfish either way; my sharing of my own or in the concentration on those of others just for self-learning of this lifetime.
Read! Read to write! I said. But maybe for me the talent is more in just the reading, for this go-round at least. And that which I just touched upon in prior times becomes my job, and thus my skill for future use.
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Well, I hope you will write. Maybe nanowrimo is what your muse needs. If nothing else, you could write me and tell me how not to be a “bad [picture] framer.” 😉
I am sure your post generates from a serious angst and that I do not mean to make light of. I hope you will write, read, sure but write; Thrive, even as you are spinning!
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Hi there Owen. I’m sorry I kinda flounced through your framing post as a know-it-all and then never gave any input. What you’re doing is find, but the only thing I would take issue with and strongly suggest as the most important element of picture framing is to use acid-free mounting and matting. The matting not only protects the piece from migrating acid damage found in regular paper mats, but serves a very important purpose in keeping the piece from touching the glass. Believe me, this alone makes a professional, archival and high quality framing job above all else.
No, I won’t stop writing in the weblogs, but I have lost the desire and motivation to continue writing fiction. Maybe another direction will occur to me, or maybe I will spend the time polishing my skills by reading a wider array of literature, and writing just what I feel like writing for myself.
Susan, I’m going through something similar and too often do. You are one of my favourite writers and I would miss your words.