.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nVictor Volkman, Loving Healing Press, set me up with a blog site and now it\u2019s up to me to blab.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nFor me, writing is difficult.\u00a0 I have been invisible for most of my life, so what I write puts a face to me, dresses me up, shows all of who I am good and bad, wild and stoic, angry and calm, hot babe (LOL.\u00a0 For the longest time I thought LOL meant lots of love. Yes, I was disappointed to find out it meant lots of laughter.) and cool grandma.\u00a0 As a writer I allow myself to be vulnerable, to be brave to be intensely honest.\u00a0 It is difficult because I am afraid that who I am and what and how I write will conjure criticism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nWell, of course, indeed, writers write to be read. Even closet writers look for approval, don\u2019t they?\u00a0 Even disapproval, although annoying, can give us a prompt to write some more, to defend or explain what may not have been understood first time around.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nOf course the most feared criticism is but ya can\u2019t write<\/em>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard that one before.\u00a0 So I revise and revise and revise until my work is lifeless and so am I\u2014limp, dull, boring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nThus, although I tend to think I\u2019m not controlling, it is with much reluctance that I let go of a first or second draft and recklessly fling it into cyber space.\u00a0 Not prime characteristics for a blogger.\u00a0 When I administered the Women of Color:\u00a0 writing blog, I was able to manage a message every three or four months at the most.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nSo, why am I attempting to blog again?\u00a0 I have a lot to say.\u00a0 The more one writes the better their writing.\u00a0 No one will talk to me! so I\u2019ll talk to you, whomever you are.\u00a0 And\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nI am blogging because my publisher, Victor, is the wizard of marketing and if I only follow through on one of the hundreds of marketing suggestions he has made, I will feel like I\u2019ve discovered the key to the kingdom.\u00a0 Though, for me it\u2019s not so much about selling books; however, I would love to honor Loving Healing Press with a few sales.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nMe, I\u2019m on a mission.\u00a0 I wrote a book about how writing saved my life.\u00a0 I believe it has, literally and metaphorically.\u00a0 Blogging will be an avenue for me to share my writing philosophy (like identity, it can change over time), and to share my writing, even my writing in progress, as it progresses.\u00a0 And to share wisdom I\u2019ve collected from other writers (and family and friends).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nYou say, yet another writing blog by a writer for writers blah blah blah blah.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 But, hopefully I will use all of the creative and spiritual power within me to keep this site lively and engaging, and maybe even valuable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nSherry<\/strong><\/p>\nFirst Draft\/No Revisions (okay, I did the spell check, but I didn\u2019t stop to contemplate \u201cwhomever\u201d or \u201cwhoever\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\nAugust 3, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 AND YET ANOTHER BLOG\u00a0 \u00a0 I am Sherry Quan Lee, writer, poet, author, Chinese\/Blackbird.\u00a0 You can read about me on my Web site at www.sherryquanlee.com. \u00a0 Victor Volkman, Loving Healing Press, set me up with a blog site and now it\u2019s up to me to blab.\u00a0 \u00a0 …<\/p>\n
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