Writing Soul

Tell me it's all in the rules

That my characters lack

Fine detail

Bodies to drool over

Gripping dialogue

Humor

Class

Style

That the climax

Doesn't have the violence needed

To reach

A modern world

To resonate with

The avid reader

Devourer of books

Ask me why

When all the world's genres lay before me

I choose one that holds

So little promise

With hard walls around it

Hard rules

Or why I break the rules

Or turn them on their heads

Tell me the rule breaking

Pisses you off

Tell me I bore you

Tell me nothing works

I'll agree

But I didn't write it for you

I wrote it for the single set of eyes

Who needs the book

Who'll see my soul inside it

And know me better

And know themselves better

The way that I know my own soul

Within it

Better

Because I have it written.

Blogging for Fun

I am drowning in essays on Greek myth (why did I choose to be an English teacher?!?), and I have less than forty minutes before I have to pick up my kids, but I just had to blog.

Thanks so much, those of you who read my blog whenever it pops up. Thanks for checking it out even when the title is lame and the subject matter isn't to your taste. And thanks to the BIG THREE responders, who pretty much chime in every single time I write (do I have to list you three out specifically? You know who you are!). Sometimes, in a given day, this blog is the only writing I can count. Sometimes it's the only fun I have. Sometimes it's the one break I get from all the stressful "have-tos"...

And you read it. Bad, good, boring, interesting, off topic, weird--no matter what presents itself here, you check it out. Thanks so much for that.

I wish I had more today. Perhaps I'll have time tomorrow to post about my trip out to Cape Flattery this past weekend. I took some digital video of it--spectacular!

Thanks again.

*hug*