Irina Maria Tracy's Blog: Living And Writing

“A woman like you, wearing the clothes you tend to wear… People will think things. Bad things.”
“What things?”
“That you are a prostitute and possibly for sale. What should we do?”
“Well, first we should agree on a price.”

JOURNALISTS are scabs, leeches, hounds and foxes! some will spit – er, I mean, protest. They are sometimes known as “hacks”, a colourfully descriptive term only a handful in the profession may take pride in, whilst the majority squirm at the mere thought of even being classed alongside it.

In my eyes, hacks are thick-skinned, tough-spirited media maggots (yet sometimes with the stereotypical, proverbial heart of gold, as is Al Pacino’s character in the film The Insider). Hacks are often portr...

You can call me obsolete, because I still love radio theater when there are movies like Avatar…

You can condemn me for loving the smell of old books that I can only find in big libraries…

You can say I am boring for listening to Mozart … or for feeling happy when I listen to Bach even if everyone thinks his music is sad…

You can call me crazy when I agree with Nietzsche because I also think “God died!”

You can say I am just as abstract as Christine Angot is in her books…but I am more than that....

You can call me obsolete, because I still love radio theater when there are movieslike Avatar…

You can condemn me for loving the smell of old books that I can only find in big libraries…

You can say I am boring for listening to Mozart … or for feeling happy when I listen to Bach even if everyone thinks his music is sad…

You can call me crazy when I agree with Nietzsche because I also think “God died!”

You can say I am just as abstract as Christine Angot is in her books…but I am more than tha...

Being a woman was never easy and it is not just going to become easy as time goesby. Being a woman is hard and even harder to admit it without being blamed for playing the martyr card…another cliché I despise. Problem is that, for all of us, there is a point in life when we start realizing that we are women and not little girls anymore, regardless of how childish we want to behave in front of the world and how much we like chocolate (some of us really like chocolate!). For some, that moment...

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There’s this thing that happens when you tell people you are a writer…people don’tknow what to do with writers, they are not part of the status quo, so that confuses people. And confused people can say weird stuff. So if you know a writer and you don’t want them imagining very specific ways to kill you in their next book, here’s what you should never say to them. And if you are a writer, then you have probably heard all of these things already … isn’t it wonderful?

1.“Is your book any good?”...

I am one of those creature that can’t define themselves. I can’t think of myself or see myself in any mirror or surface and I have just my inner world. As much as I would like to invite you inside this inner world I have, it is something that most of you fear and some of you question. Everything was darkness to me, inside and outside my being and all around me. Until I fell in love with one of you. Love is the gate that opens a world full of wonders-your world. Through love I was blessed and...