I discovered a new site, AboutMe.com. It is very user friendly. It allows you to create a short bio and pick out a theme and there is lots of options and ways to use the blog.
I didn't want to just limit my blog to entries about my book, 'john lennon: in their own write.' After all, I do other writing, and I paint and enjoy photography. I have many interests: too many, sometimes I think!
I would like to be able to share my ongoing exploration into the arts and social networking as I go along. A new journey, a new beginning. With links to the past, literally and figuratively.
To allow you to learn, to share, to advance your own artistic vision, creative ideas. Whatever you are into. I find the Internet to be tremendously enabling. Sometimes, it is a distraction, but I can't tell you how many times I turned to it for research, ideas and interaction with people I would otherwise have never met.
This is a whole subtopic in itself. "The Internet: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. Lol." I think adding the LOL, at the end clearly denotes a whole new world. After all, just yesterday, I heard that LOL (and other words we have recently come to use due to the Internet) are being included in the Oxford Dictionary. It is not going 'away,' anytime, soon! If we use it for good, it can be very, very good. Like anything else. It is a new frontier and we must establish its boundaries.
I find it very fulfilling to write and be read, instantly. Of course, this does not mean that I will stop writing fiction that needs revision - or many revision. This is just one outlet for me. Another medium. I really do believe, like McLuhan, that the MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE. That keeps cropping up, almost everywhere I look, these days. McLuhan was brilliant and prophetic in creating that phrase. More than ever - the medium is the message.
I hope you will join me on my new adventures. Wherever they may lead. I have not put limitations on the subjects I will explore. I would like this blog to be like a daily journal; private and public. Yet, neither so private as to become opaque. Nor so public, as to give me pause about my own boundaries of privacy.
This week was devoted to my seeking reviewers for my book, 'john lennon: in their own write.' I gave out free, digital files of my book, hoping this would be incentive enough for people to want to write up honest and frank reviews. It was not as easy as that. But, I surely appreciate those friends who made the commitment and followed through. It maybe that people are just a little afraid to write what they think. I say, go for it. Reviews need to be 'mixed' and honest - and from the heart. I made it clear that I wanted feedback. Including, what's good and what needs improvement.
I am taking a break to think about this. I am sure many more reviews are on the way. People just need to ponder what it is they really want to say. It is a process that cannot be rushed.
More, later!
