Another of my professors has given me the ultimate compliment of noting that my writing is oftenwriterly. This mostly comes from seeing my writing here at Spinning I assume, and yet I cannot reconcile that with a writerly position–it seems to me that everything here is I, I, I and me, me, me. This is okay, I suppose, because Spinning is a journal based on personal perceptions and experiences. It’s never been a place for you to find expert opinion on anything.
I have noticed (see, there’s the “I” again) that readers do relate to many of the posts, but isn’t that just human experiences that we all share? Do readers take the words and immediately relate to their own lives, or envision them as something other than my own rendition?
Interesting concept, especially since I’m such a dictatorial type.
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