heather’s Comments (group member since Sep 22, 2009)

heather’s comments from the Bad Advice from Mykle Hansen group.

But you've just told her to shoplift! Now you've assured my downfall no matter what awkward attempt at self expression and/or crass capitalism! I'm going to go finish that kimchee from last week, I think.

Mykle! Dear god!

I had assembled a collection of memoir essays, written with the calm, sardonic, amoral decorum of Harper's or The New Yorker and decided to self publish it. Then I had some bad kimchee and woke up wanting to publish a slim volume of surreal prose poetry / flash fiction instead. It's pretentious-ish. It's sordid. It says f-u-c-k a lot. It would make my grandmother and possibly other grandmothers (present and future) cry. It's even, shudder, sort of sexy Samuel Beckett ish. Mykle, I want people to think I am learned and invulnerable like Sarah Vowell, not a squalling modernist who left the top off the metaphor blender. BUT IT FEELS SO RIGHT.

The writing with, you know, topic sentences and anyone knowing what the fuck is going on-- everyone thinks it's good for me, and we've been together a long time, but the magic is just gone, and I've been stepping out for a long time.

The truth is, I can only self publish one! How can I choose?

h