Comments on: Two Things About Today I Feel the Need to Tell the Internet

By: Jodi

Jodi — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:48:00 +0000

In reply to todd. You would be wise to be wary of Joan.

By: todd

todd — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:52:24 +0000

That photo threatens me.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 31 May 2013 22:34:26 +0000

In reply to Carrie Mesrobian (@CarrieMesrobian).

Usually I call whatever I’m working on “a thing” though I see that piece snuck into this post. I had to use the words “my novel” and/or “my book” all over that grant app. It sucked.

Also, when I think of “my work” I think about the marketing emails I write or website stuff I do because people give me money to do that stuff.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 31 May 2013 19:36:30 +0000

Hey, be careful not to poke someone’s eye out with those themes.

(See what I did there? Well, you don’t have to make that gagging face so fast…)

By: Carrie Mesrobian (@CarrieMesrobian)

Carrie Mesrobian (@CarrieMesrobian) — Fri, 31 May 2013 19:09:58 +0000

In reply to Jodi.

It hasn’t gotten better. I still think I sound like an asshole. I also am very picky about how I talk about writing.

I never call the writing I do, ‘my work.” Like, “In my work, I try to…” Like, something about calling it my ‘work’ is like all hoity-toity, as if you have an oeuvre or whatever the hell, as if you have nuances and recurrent themes and blah blah blah. I feel like that language is for reviewers and critics, not the maker of the stuff.

I also don’t like to call writing ‘a piece’ or ‘a manuscript’ bc it evokes those same OH GOD GET AWAY FROM ME YOU SELF-IMPORTANT IDIOT feelings…