Comments on: Disclosure

By: discerning dom

discerning dom — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:44:23 +0000

I think I understand your feelings. I sometimes get pressed by readers to say if what I describe really happened. I can’t. I need a screen between myself and those who are reading. It’s not just to protect myself and friends against people who might use such information maliciously. It’s because I just can’t be completely open with people I don’t know. There are one or two readers who have got so close to me, whom I’ve met in real life, and who now know everything about me (well, nearly everything!). But if I don’t know you, how can I tell you intimate details of my real life? This is not a criticism of those who can do this. I only know I can’t.

By: Big Ed Magusson

Big Ed Magusson — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:03:51 +0000

Touching post. Can you be honest about not wanting to be honest? I think you just did, quite well.

By: mina

mina — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:50:16 +0000

well thank you. *smiles* Sylvanus and I enjoy sharing our love and life for all to see in the hopes we help someone or give someone hope. We can’t help but be honest when we write no matter how sad or happy the story.

By: boundbydesign

boundbydesign — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:34:26 +0000

My goodness, you’re way too hard on yourself. How much or how little we want to share with the cyberworld should be of our own prerogative. People have different comfort levels when it comes to interpersonal relationships. Some are perfectly at home sharing tidbits about themselves, others are more private. But the great thing about art (writing or otherwise): the audience is, and should be, free to interpret and relate to the piece from their own perspectives. If the creator share some hints that nudge them in one direction or the other, great. But it’s certainly not the only/right way.

By: Laurel

Laurel — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:41:54 +0000

Aren’t these strange times though? When someone can sit at their computer and confess to millions of strangers all over the world. Or choose not to. Thanks for giving us what you give. Don’t feel bad about keeping the rest for yourself.

By: City Different

City Different — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:36:01 +0000

Let’s celebrate everyone whose writing does the work of revealing us to ourselves. Some do it by telling their own stories; others do it by telling the stories of characters they create; both are giving us a window onto who we are, and why. Both are honest. Both help us feel connected. And both are generous, in their own ways shining their light on things we couldn’t see without them.

By: thextraman

thextraman — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:50:33 +0000

There is room both for those who feel comfortable with being completely open about themselves in their writing and for those, like me, who do not. I am entirely with you on the “Victorian” lack of disclosure. I like to choose who, if anyone, I disclose the intent of, or the feeling behind, something I write. They can then read with that knowledge; whereas others read without it and must conceive their own interpretations.

I do not believe that is selfish, nor that you should see your own lack of disclosure as selfish.

Pete

By: Alexa

Alexa — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:39:35 +0000

So, let us celebrate those among us who are healthier and more generous.

I sure wouldn’t characterize the way you share your writing (or what lies behind why you do it that way) as “unhealthy,” sweetheart.

We all share in different ways. And so long as the writing is of good quality (which yours is), then that’s all that matters.