My Reading under a Pseudonym blog is under way! This is where I will discuss what I am reading/writing/experiencing. I was inspired by two people. One is the anonymous blogger behind "Writing under a Pseudonym," at http://jadepark.wordpress.com/. This is a wonderful blog I have been reading for a couple of years. Writing uses her blog as a way to work through issues she is having with her writing (she is currently hard at work on a novel, for which I wish her all the best). Sometimes she writes little creative writing exercises. Reading her blog has been therapeutic for me, like auditing a creative writing course.
The other person who inspired me to start this blog was Sylvia Plath. I had always been interested in her poetry, and her novel The Bell Jar, but I recently stumbled upon her journals, which delight me with their witty, sardonic quips. Sylvia used her journals not as a diary, in which one confides their innermost thoughts and feelings, but as a log. She recounted events in her own unique voice, not always truthfully, storing them away to form a garden of events, characters, and settings for later works of fiction. When she started to write The Bell Jar, it was all there in her journal, the starting ground for her wonderful novel. She was rigorous in her writing, writing in her journal daily. This is the goal I set for myself.
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