tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post8581491296340736692..comments2023-09-30T08:53:15.486-07:00Comments on Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog: Some Notes on Discoverylowenkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05198658136254028258noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-89779155795209027242008-10-29T12:51:00.000-07:002008-10-29T12:51:00.000-07:00Your blog is a kind of Journals of Lewis and Clark...Your blog is a kind of Journals of Lewis and Clark for me. And whenever I post a post, it takes me about ten hours of revisiting and revisiting to get it right, until it ends up being and totally different post than it was the first time. I can't seem to take that journey off-post. For some reason it has to be on the blog, even though anyone who reads it early won't see the finished product. It has to finish itself, without a plan, with shifting voices. My other writing? Hmph!Querulous Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708026581220562733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916332485223671615.post-29234515275048385452008-10-29T07:00:00.000-07:002008-10-29T07:00:00.000-07:00Well said. Your note about "the most important rea...Well said. Your note about "the most important reader of all" reminds me of a lecture by novelist/memoirist Wayson Choy. He spoke of the concept of "the ideal reader", which is an independently governed consciousness within the writer - not just a voice, but a mind that (to put it simply) wants the writer to not cut corners, not cheat him, but rather live up the "ideal reader"'s expectations of the writer. <BR/><BR/>A very swaying concept when you're working on the ending of a novel.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12235525041894772335noreply@blogger.com