Where Do All The Lost Words Go?
May 22nd 2008 02:01
I have not been keeping up with my Orble blog very well recently. This is mainly because I have been lucky enough to score a paid blog and I have been working hard to build an audience there.
Here is the link, Really Long Link But be warned, it is a parenting website and deals with my journey as a mum. It may not appeal to those of you who are not parents but hopefully, if you are, it will.
But I keep my Orble blog because it is not connected in any way to my role as a parent. It’s a way for me to indulge my other passions – reading, writing, language, literature and films. Here no one calls me Mum and asks me to peel their apple.
So I have been super busy with this other blog as well as doing some work for another parenting magazine. And in the meantime, my list of Writers in Writing continues to grow. I am keeping notes and shall eventually get around to updating the list but for the moment I have another little query – Where do all the lost words go??
You know the ones. The sentence your editor vetoed? The paragraph you had to delete because you were over your word count? The idea you jotted down on a scrap of paper and then lost in the detritus of your daily life?
Where are all these lost words? Some of them are especially fine but just unable to find their place here.
I like to imagine that all these lost words, sentences, paragraphs and ideas are milling around in some alternate word paradise, getting ready for the day when they rise up in one almighty novel – The Book of Lost Words.
Imagine how many writers would be in it!!
Here is the link, Really Long Link But be warned, it is a parenting website and deals with my journey as a mum. It may not appeal to those of you who are not parents but hopefully, if you are, it will.
But I keep my Orble blog because it is not connected in any way to my role as a parent. It’s a way for me to indulge my other passions – reading, writing, language, literature and films. Here no one calls me Mum and asks me to peel their apple.
So I have been super busy with this other blog as well as doing some work for another parenting magazine. And in the meantime, my list of Writers in Writing continues to grow. I am keeping notes and shall eventually get around to updating the list but for the moment I have another little query – Where do all the lost words go??
You know the ones. The sentence your editor vetoed? The paragraph you had to delete because you were over your word count? The idea you jotted down on a scrap of paper and then lost in the detritus of your daily life?
Where are all these lost words? Some of them are especially fine but just unable to find their place here.
I like to imagine that all these lost words, sentences, paragraphs and ideas are milling around in some alternate word paradise, getting ready for the day when they rise up in one almighty novel – The Book of Lost Words.
Imagine how many writers would be in it!!
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Comment by postmoderncritic
Postmodern Critic
Daily Inspirations
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Padsoc
I read one of your articles on your parenting blog and found it quite interesting although I am not a parent... I'm still 24 and probably not going to think about children until 10 years from now...
I like your idea about The Book of Lost Words, but would a single book be enough to gather all those snippets that got away? I sometimes think about the work that perfectionists don't deem suitable for the public eye...
On a slightly more surrealist note, Viggo Mortensen has a poem which goes:
WE UNDERESTIMATE DAMAGE
DONE TO THE SKY
WHEN WE ALLOW WORDS
TO SLIP AWAY
INTO THE CLOUDS.
I don't see why the destruction of the cosmos has to be involved, but the imagery is kind of pretty, if depressing.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Epiphanie
Comment by Jayne Kearney
Writers In Writing (and other writing)
I love Viggo's poem (agree with you about the destruction of the cosmos though). It's beautiful. Thanks for sharing - I can't believe he and I have this connection. haha
I have decided to keep a file on my computer titled "Lost Words" and I'm just going to paste everything there - It really might turn in to a novel!!
Hey and BTW, thanks for reading my other blog - but you have years until you need to think about it - enjoy them! I did!
I shall update The List soon I hope.
Jayne!