tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post111712809664780141..comments2023-04-14T11:53:58.232+02:00Comments on Inside Mike Kimera: On being a Reader and becoming a WriterMike Kimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18002309169478171450noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post-1117922936014902442005-06-05T00:08:00.000+02:002005-06-05T00:08:00.000+02:00I think that people write _about_ varieties of mar...I think that people write _about_ varieties of married/partnered sex fairly often, but that there's little writing from _right inside_ of it all, at the point of emotional truth that often gets lost in erotic writing. You excel in doing that, Mike -- keeping it real, yet still hot, while providing some interesting enlightenment about a man's inner life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post-1117807755188378092005-06-03T16:09:00.000+02:002005-06-03T16:09:00.000+02:00I think someday I'll become a Reader like you're b...I think someday I'll become a Reader like you're becoming a Writer. When I do read, I get so absorbed that my siblings used to amuse themselves by seeing how many times they could yell that the house was on fire before I'd snap out of it and notice. <BR/><BR/>The only reason I don't read more is that I lose my life when I read. I can't put books down. I don't just lose sleep now and then - I do it every single time I read. I'll ignore friends and responsibilities and leave work early, sleep-deprived and guilty, to finish the story, because I can't get them out of my head. <BR/><BR/>So either I'll become a Reader when I no longer have to work, or when I find ways to control my compulsions. <BR/><BR/>Until then, I make do with reading short things (blogs & short stories) and every now & then writing a little something. <BR/><BR/>But yeah, I think you're becoming a Writer. It's fun to see the evolution. I recently had the chance to see a play written by a Writer friend whose work I've been reading for 15 years now, and I love watching writers develop in real time, which gives interesting validity to the idea of a Writer blogging -- so that those who get more out of reading someone they know can feel like they know the Writer, and possibly get more out of the experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post-1117536254518357122005-05-31T12:44:00.000+02:002005-05-31T12:44:00.000+02:00Hi Mike,Discovered you now have a blog thru rg's l...Hi Mike,<BR/>Discovered you now have a blog thru rg's links page. Great :) I look forward to reading you.<BR/>Amanda (a former ERWA member)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post-1117502525197828602005-05-31T03:22:00.000+02:002005-05-31T03:22:00.000+02:00Mike,Welcome to the wierd and wonderful world of b...Mike,<BR/><BR/>Welcome to the wierd and wonderful world of blogs. I loved this article!<BR/><BR/>Hugs,<BR/><BR/>rgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post-1117479847156357512005-05-30T21:04:00.000+02:002005-05-30T21:04:00.000+02:00Nice blog, Mike, from a fellow ERA member!Nice blog, Mike, from a fellow ERA member!W. S. Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14611807978835092990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post-1117479792682871102005-05-30T21:03:00.000+02:002005-05-30T21:03:00.000+02:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.W. S. Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14611807978835092990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post-1117145873013056442005-05-27T00:17:00.000+02:002005-05-27T00:17:00.000+02:00On reading: It seems to me that the best books ha...On reading: It seems to me that the best books have characters with drape, (empathetic capability? or just a good quality worsted?) - their personalities skim familiar frameworks, their words nestle in the ear, their thoughts expand to fill and possess the mind, the mouth. You could be me, they might say, or you could want me. Reading is escapism, true, but perhaps also an expression of desire? (Do literary rules make that desire safe?) <BR/><BR/>Of course, the Greeks would say that empathy for fiction forces one to express and relocate one's own desires, either beneficially (Aristotle's notions of emotional displacement) or destructively (Plato's condemnation of drama's rabble-rousing potential.) But what if it is simpler than that?<BR/><BR/>What if it is about just not being you for a bit, about reimagining yourself as some compatible other, fleshed out in technicolor with all the sensual lucidity of a spring day five minutes after the rain has stopped, with language as the mordant, fixing the moment forever accessible?<BR/><BR/>Granted, I am speaking of reimagining the self to a man with a literary alter ego - oh, such ironies.<BR/><BR/>Why do you suppose no one much writes married sex?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com