For what it’s worth
I have begun my experiment in fiction blogging. I created a new blog for my fictions titled simply “Fictions,” a nod to Borges.
The format of a blog is perhaps not ideally suited to fiction of any kind, but I aim to give it a try anyhow. The way I have decided to overcome the problem of blog entries posting most recent entries first is by using the, until now, mostly useless “categories.”
Each fiction will have a category, which will also be its working title. I will try to date each blog entry so that when you click on the category/title of a fiction you want to read, you can read it from the beginning instead of the end (which by default is how a blog would display it).
These fictions will be in installments. I encourage feedback, even though I have said before how much criticism (especially from women) pains me. It does not make me angry; it crushes me. But don’t let that stop you. I am doing this partly to overcome my fear of criticism and my fear of failure.
At the moment, I have posted only one fiction under the working title Bildungsroman. That word pretty much describes what I am attempting with this piece. In my own mind, I often refer to it as my YAN (Young Adult Novel). I mean it to be a longer work, a novella or short novel, something along the lines of the novels we were all required to read in Middle School, A Seperate Peace and The Outsiders. These seem to be the best models for writing about this boy’s life.
I may add the beginning of another story tomorrow. I have about three fictions I have been working on and would like to complete. All three are projected to be longer than a short story, at least novella size. I’ve been wanting to get behind a long piece of fiction for awhile, just to prove I can do it. Perhaps having an audience will compell me to actually finish one of these.
As you will see, there is nothing radical about my style. These are traditional narratives, for better or worse. Enjoy them. Comment, if you feel like it. I’ll keep writing as long as I feel I have somewhere to go with the plots, and as long as I feel I have at least one attentive eye amongst you.
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Good idea! You’re such a good writer in your blogs, so I look forward to reading your fiction. And I’d say that most of us in the brood are constructive critics, at worst. So none of us will crush you. Not even the scary women.
Comment by Mel B. — Wednesday, 30 March 2005 @ 10:53 pm
Thank you for reassuring me. Women are underestimated in their capacity for cruelty, you know
My wife has told me stories about the secret vengeance of women. Usually, it’s woman on woman vengence, however. She told me about how in college, there was one girl she knew whose roommate did something to piss her off, so she squirted baby oil on all her CDs. Now that is vengeance! No man would ever think of something like that.
Comment by Matthew — Thursday, 31 March 2005 @ 7:03 am
Isn’t that kind of a funny thing about women, but then what do men do? Well prob just punch the guy, if my husband’s teenage years are anything to go by.
Comment by Bronwen — Thursday, 31 March 2005 @ 10:13 am
Yes, I think men are much more direct in their vengeance. Boys can have a real knock-down-drag-out to solve their quarrels. Girls for whatever reason rarely stoop to that level. They are much more sophisticated and patient in how they measure out their own justice.
Comment by Matthew — Thursday, 31 March 2005 @ 12:10 pm
Plus, men are just so socially unobservant–we’ve been trained to be so oblivious to subtleties of social interraction. Seems to me this has two major effects: we don’t do that intricate vangeance thing, because so often our target would just not even notice, even if we were capable of coming up with the intricate plan; and we are too oblivious to notice an awful lot of the subtle insults that make up women’s social interractions in middle and high school at least.
Obviously, those are sweeping generalitites, but they seem to me roughly true. Women can be so much more cruel because they just pay much more attention to social exchanges.
Comment by Scrivener — Friday, 1 April 2005 @ 11:05 am
Meant to say, too, I think the fiction blog sounds promising and exciting. I agree with Mel B–I enjoy your writing so much, especially the kind of fictional writing you have already done in the traditional space of this blog–and so I look forward to reading that stuff. And I applaud you for facing that fear of criticism head-on, that ain’t easy. Good for you all round!
Comment by Scrivener — Friday, 1 April 2005 @ 11:15 am
I agree about men being so unsubtle, they would not notice an intricate plot for revenge–or understand it. These are sweeping generalities we are both making, but basically sound generalities, I think.
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