writer websites.

I am supposed to create a writer website for myself. This weekend I spent time looking at writer websites. Here are a few. I made fun subtitles.

You know she is awesome

like the hum of static noise

"it is the morning after the morning after
your voice echoes like a broken
bottle muffled into my skin."

Wizarding fun

A piece I did for magazine writing.

Ever wonder how many calories you could burn folding down your fishnets? Or the right way to elegantly shake your ass? Well, you’re in luck. Trixie Little, the award winning acrobatic burlesque entertainer as know with partner Evil Hate Monkey, is officially in Baltimore and offering classes to the public.

“Burlesque Bootcamp,” aims to teach individuals how to “Bump, grind, shake, shimmy, tease, twirl, peel, and then reveal.” The “Intro Series” starting February 24th through March 10th is a three-week course that meets Wednesday nights from 6:30-8:00. The classes are for all levels, novices through “budding starlets.”

It is guaranteed to rid you of your winter funk while learning a taboo art form that combines dance, theatricality and glamour. Did I mention while also cleverly discarding your clothes?

Trixie will teach you the "Four C's" of burlesque - choreography, character, costuming, and charisma. You might even find yourself donning a new personality when given a feather plume for the night.

Participants are asked to dress for movement, wear warm layers, and bring heels that you can dance well in. 3inches or higher is considered ideal! Which means you will have killer legs as well as a new way to entertain. You must arrive 10-15 minutes early if possible.
Trixie and Evil Hate Monkey have dedicated their lives to traveling around the world opening the minds of many to burlesque. Join them at 120 W. North Avenue Baltimore, MD 21201. You must buy tickets in advance at www.trixielittle.com. Price $75.

Inspiration.

For the young who want to by Marge Piercy

Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
you have is a tedious
delusion, a hobby like knitting.


Work is what you have done
after the play is produced
and the audience claps.
Before that friends keep asking
when you are planning to go
out and get a job.


Genius is what they know you
had after the third volume
of remarkable poems. Earlier
they accuse you of withdrawing,
ask why you don’t have a baby,
call you a bum.


The reason people want M.F.A.’s,
take workshops with fancy names
when all you can really
learn is a few techniques,
typing instructions and some-
body else’s mannerisms


is that every artist lacks
a license to hang on the wall
like your optician, your vet
proving you may be a clumsy sadist
whose fillings fall into the stew
but you’re certified a dentist.


The real writer is one
who really writes. Talent
is an invention like phlogiston
after the fact of fire.
Work is its own cure. You have to
like it better than being loved.

creating a writer webpage

So the assignment is to think about what I want my personal writer website to be like. I would like to be able to create a site that encompasses my writing, maybe writers I enjoy and want to share with others, and lots of visual stimulating things like pictures or videos. I think I would achieve this by creating different sections. I really like the idea of being able to click on a picture and have it go into a writing piece. I'm trying to put something out there that I would like to follow. Something that entertains but has great literary aspects too. I want the site to house both poetry and personal essay. I would also want a feedback section so I can get more imput on my writing.

my love affair with Marge Piercy.

I have only one book by Marge Piercy, but I plan on getting many more. "The Moon is Always Female" has been my favorite for almost a year now. I think she is honest and intriguing and her metaphors are so interesting. She has an inner strength that that draws you to her poems. The first thing I think to say is, I hope to one day write like her. However, she writes the way she writes because she is being true to herself. I have to be true to myself which is a scary thing and which means I can't write like her I have to write like myself. My new way of thinking should be what would Marge Piercy do...

Her website http://www.margepiercy.com/

Beginning of Under Red Aries

I am impossible, I know it,
a fan with a clattering blade loose,
a car with no second gear.
I want you to love freely, I want
you to love richly and many
but I want your mouth to taste of me
and I want to walk in your dreams naked.

Last thing about the sno-way! situation

I wasn't much in a writing mood during the snow storm. I think there will always be a part of me that thinks of snow like when I was a kid. These were the days when we'd get off school, drink hot chocolate, and watch movies all day. It felt weird doing anything else. After awhile of just sitting and watching the snow come down, there is an uncontrollable urge to go outside. It doesn't matter if I pay my own bills, live by myself, work towards being a successful independent woman, there is nothing like snow to make you remember that majestic moment of when the first flake drops from the sky and you hope for enough to build something.

Things I learned in the snow

Rather than tell my whole long story of what I did during the snow storm I drew these crude sketches.
Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Here is the story

" Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with a lover in the country"

So much snow! I like the snow, but not for the usual making snowmen and having snowball fights, but for the silence that hugs the city. It gets so quiet and peaceful. It's a silence that pulls you out into a whole other moment. My big plan was to write things in the snow and post pictures but I didn't get that far. Instead, my heat went out and I lit candles and thought of the short story "Snow" by Ann Beattie. I like the story for many reasons. One of the main ones, is that the writing has that still snow feeling to it. It's a honest story.

yay cool blogs yay.

I finally found some fun blogs that deal with poetry and present it in an interesting way.
The first one is a blog that has posted tapes of people reading poems orally. This got me thinking of mixed media blogs. It is called poetry in performance.
http://oralinterpretationofliterature.blogspot.com/

The second one is called Karen and her writing shed. http://writingshed.wordpress.com/about/. This woman renovated this run down shed in the back of her house and uses it to write in. It's an on Walden pond kind of thing. It chronicles her writing and experiences becoming one with the shed.

The third is called beer Haiku daily.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/beer-haiku-daily
The guy writes short little haiku's about beer each day. I thought this was fun and light hearted and this made me realize this whole blog experience doesn't have to be so serious.

How I feel right now

So many boring writers blogs

I found a blog that isn't too bad. It's called the life poetic http://thelifepoetic.wordpress.com/

The thing that stuck out for me with this blog is that it had pictures to go along with the poems. The pictures did help with enhancing the poetry and kept my attention. It was set up in a very clean manner. Picture..Poem..Picture..Poem. I clearly do not read blogs so this has been challenging for me because I don't know where to start. I keep looking on that list of poets and writers in Newpages.com. This I feel, is like finding a needle in a haystack. This journey has pushed me to think outside the box for my blog. Especially, if I plan on putting any poetry up. I am already getting bored with my own blog's straightforward nature.

First Favorite blog

I have no idea how to change the sequencing of the posts.. So this is going to look odd.. Whatev...

My first Favorite Blog is called overheard in New York. http://rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=c381dcaa9b29fc6a62ae07976778a28f&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.overheardinnewyork.com%2F
This person is not a writer but I feel that I can learn from the blog because he took a simple idea of overhearing conversations in New York and made an on going narrative about it. I thought it was clever and helped me to think about trying to find a simple way to involve my poetry. It was very easy to navigate through. The top part stayed the same which also made the site easy to follow.

Just to keep your attention and mine...

Hello all.

So, it is past midnight. All I can think of saying is SHIT.
Over the course of this week I have started posts, deleted posts, tried to change the page color and the name of my blog a million times. And now, in the 11th hour, I have nothing to show for it except a list of Top 10 conclusions thus far in my blogging.

1. The fear of not being interesting is worse than writer's block
2. I wish I was Miranda July
3. The more I try and find a blog I actually like for the class, the more I want to scream.
4. I find blogs that are all writing and self disclosing horribly boring.
5. I will try and not be boring
6. I need to get a digital camera.
7. I think having a good blog name makes people want to find out what you are writing about. Note to self: If I choose an outlandish name I must not disappoint.
8. Apparently, many people find themselves very interesting
9. Blogs are a good way to self publish
10. I am a visually stimulated person I need to see pictures