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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Hi, I'm Elle. I'm based in Auckland, New Zealand. I'm the mother of two young adults, the wife of an entrepreneurial gamer and the Queen of Unfinished Projects. This blog will contain poems, short stories, possibly photos and book reviews if you're lucky, and my thoughts on a variety of topics. Hope you enjoy it. |
| Do you ever feel like an imposter? When it comes to writing, I do. Blogging is where I feel most secure, because I've been doing it for so long (since 2001), but also because I know I have found my personal 'voice'. It feels easy and natural. I wouldn't say it's overly successful though. In the last month I've had: - 67 likes and 6 comments on my 15 Wordpress posts - 2 likes and 1 comment on my 26 visible Livejournal posts - 17 likes and 26 comments on my 26 Writing.com blog posts Clearly Livejournal is a big fat fail, but I kinda knew that already. I continue to use it because a) it has all my posts dating back to 2001, and b) I can make entries private, custom or public and even backdate late entries. It's my master copy. Very few people read it anymore though. Writing.com is far more successful in terms of interaction, but Wordpress is seen by more people. Either way, those stats are teeny tiny in the big blogging world. I definitely feel fraudulent when it comes to poetry. I see others out there with great technical skills or deep meaning or angst or whatever. Mine are just... nothing. Like, sometimes they're pretty, or sometimes they seem like they contain deep emotion and/or angst, but it's not really there. It's not my emotion or angst. Very rarely at least. I simply don't have that much angst to put into my poetry. I had a happy childhood, I've been in a happy, secure relationship since I was 20... I just don't have life experience of dark horrors, and yet pretty happy poetry doesn't seem to be my forte either. *shrugs* I mean, my life hasn't been perfect. I'm not saying that at all. I've got issues like everyone else does. I'm just not sure they're the kind that translate into poetry worth reading. Or maybe I just don't have the skills to do that. Now I'm doing a novel writing class. It officially starts on Thursday. And I'm freaking out. I don't have characters begging for me to tell their stories. I don't have ideas for plots. I don't have anything. I literally can't think of an original character who isn't a real person or a character I've read in a book. And yet, I need one. Sure, I can come up with superficial ideas for characters. And maybe even superficial ideas for plots (but nothing that would stand up to close scrutiny). I don't know how the rest of you do this, I really don't. |
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