Comments on: Know, sweet love, I always write of you

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:28:15 +0000

Hello again! Emma Darwin has raised similar concerns on her excellent blog – well worth a visit if you haven’t been there already …

http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/2009/01/under-the-buglebeaded-bonnet.html

By: Lisa Alber

Lisa Alber — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:44:05 +0000

Hi Bloglily, glad you’re back! I’ve thought about this alot–that I come back to the same themes in my writing. I find it interesting, actually. I worry more about my blog getting boring with the same themes, though. At least in fiction, I’m exploring different characters, but the blog is all me. Yikes!

By: bloglily

bloglily — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:02:44 +0000

Hello Ms. HMH, I think you just have to write what you want to write and not worry about the rest of it. I haven’t re-read much of my blog, and I think that might be sort of interesting and fun. Maybe I’ll do that.

Hey Courtney, yes, there is indeed the ongoing struggle to get someone to take one of my stories and to get writing done and to raise children and be a decent person. I wish it was fiction though — then I’d know a little better how it all comes out!

Dear Lokesh, yes, that it beautiful. The phrase “sweet love” is one that really gets to me.

John, You never do nail that one way, or at least you can’t be sure you have. And that’s good — because there are an infinite number of ways to say what you need to and it’s a lot of fun, not to mention a huge undertaking, to get to do that.

It is the “slightly shifted” part that is interesting, OP. I think it’s interesting and useful to look back, isn’t it?

Dear Sandi, You’re most welcome. I love this sonnet. It’s about writing, and about love, two topics that’re rich and interesting.

By: healingmagichands

healingmagichands — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:37:52 +0000

I have been struggling with the same feeling this month. I feel like I write the same things over and over, and yet, no one complains and if I take a look at my blog that is not true. I think about writing the same things, but I don’t actually. Perhaps that is true for you as well. I never feel like I am reading the same thing when I come here.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:25:00 +0000

it’s hard to make a blog feel “fresh,” isn’t it? I often feel like I write the same thing over and over and over again…but when I think about the blogs I return to every few days to read (like yours!) I think I return not only because I feel like I know you, and like you, but to learn about the ongoing struggle that holds up your narrative. Of course it’s going to be some of the same themes…it wouldn’t be a great arc of writing if there weren’t!

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:06:25 +0000

Wow indeed! It’s oft been said I know but that boy could really write!

Glad to have you back and to hear that your own writing is going well.

By: johnbakeronline

johnbakeronline — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:19:12 +0000

Of course, this is the way it is. Every writer has only one book, one story, and the struggle is to find a way of telling it perfectly. But there is no sweeter way of telling it but in this sonnet. Thank you.

By: openpalm

openpalm — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:24:20 +0000

i see in my poems a spiral…a poem one year, a poem three years later…almost identical but shifted slightly part of a turn around.
–op

By: sandi shelton

sandi shelton — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:04:08 +0000

Wow, I love this sonnet–and love that you posted it. Because I was having myself a little semi-crisis thinking the exact same thing about MY work, that it’s always about the same thing. But (head smacking sound here) of COURSE it is! It’s the thing we’re trying to solve or to know truly and deeply. And you’re right: if it’s all right for Shakespeare, it’s all right for us, too. Thank you for posting this!