Re: two rats

>That's what I said, Levi, in the second sentence. "It's always a
>reflection of
>yourself somehow."

Reflection? Maybe not as clearly as Jim and Levi are saying above. I
agree with Mathew in thinking that the relationship between the
writer and the text is rarely a direct reflection and in many cases
it can be more of a deception. I don't believe what I write reflects
who I am nearly as much as stopping to help a skater lace up and
glide. I care deeply about what I write...it's truth that I want to
find with words...but that's already a deception because there's more
truth in writing than in life.

Scottie makes a very cute Seymour move telling Cecilia she's better
than what she wrote but that's always got to be so to keep writing.
Why begin or work on something if you think it doesn't have the
possibility to be something better than what you've done before?
Sometimes writers need to be told to go back and do it better, but I
don't know Cecilia well enough to know if she can do it better and I
don't consider 2 Rats a reflection of her, her talent, or in dire
need of revision. I'm guessing she will disagree and rewrite with
Scottie and Jim's energy and that's good and fine with me, but as
David Bowie once sang, "Ain't no big thing." I thought it was a
quick, amusing story that resonated with me after I finished. Many
things I read these days stop with the last word read.

There has been an increasing trend to what is called "sudden" or
"short short" stories. I've followed this trend along with an
interest in prose poems. It seems to me that very short prose
achieves its punch with a an occasional mix of poetry into the
narrative. That's why 2 rats works for me...it's an unusual image,
and the context and twisting of it were clever.

I think creative writing on this list can be lively and interesting
and hope others will share their work.

will
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Received on Thu Aug 29 09:52:45 2002