All the angles

After a long hiatus, I am back at the blogging table ready to recommit. I splurged and bought a year membership at the American Library of Paris and have started doing research again. It is time to delve into non-fiction, biography, history and literary criticism, taking breaks inbetween the pile of novels at my bedside. Time to take my ideas and my experiences seriously again; to study all the angles and commit them to paper and pixels.

So, please forgive my absence and indulge me while I work out the kinks of style and form. Not that I haven't been writing, in fact I was a busy little bee for nearly a year as pro bono features editor to an online bi-lingual magazine, Paris Link. I realized that journalism is tough for me in a way that creative writing has never been. And Paris Link is now defunct, the editor-in-chief having moved back to England. No matter. I find journalism fun but constraining to my hyper-imagination and melancholic tendancies. But it taught me discipline, the power of deadlines and immediacy in my writing by delving into what's happening here and now.

As Natalie Goldberg so poignantly states in her book on the craft, I'm getting back to "writing down the bones".

So, let's see, the knee bone's connected to the thigh bone . . .