Thursday, July 9, 2009

I'm still here... honest...

Hello to all my lovely followers!!

I see I've got quite a few new additions in the last few weeks and I've not even been doing anything new here. I see also that some of you are not travellers from my other blog, Ripples in a Small Pond (which is listed in my bloglist below).

My reason for having two blogs was that I wanted to house all my stories and bits of stories in one place, as they are fairly long and it's neater. This leaves me free to write my thoughts and poems on my other blog (Ripples).

"Chasing my tales" is so named because I feel like I'm always chasing the stories which flit around just in front of me but are jumbled up and difficult to articulate into words. I hoped to be able to unjumble them by writing them down in as imperfect a form as they choose to come out and refining them online, which would also give me the benefit of the experience of my followers, so please please leave me comments if you wish and they can be lovely and critical ... or just lovely...

"Ripples in a small pond" was so named because when I first started out here I didn't really know anyone blogging online and I felt like I was only ever going to be making a small contribution at the very edges of the online world. I'm so fortunate to have been accepted into several communities and groups of blogging friends and my first tentative endeavours were welcomed and encouraged by such nurturing people that I feel quite at home around here now.

Anyway, explanations over, I'll toddle off and try to finish another story. I have a beginning which I'm quite pleased with, an end which needs some work and no middle!!!

So watch this space....

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14 comments:

  1. Rosaria WilliamsJuly 9, 2009 at 8:36 AM

    I see Jinksy and Meredith on your followers' gadget and perhaps more people we know. Isn't it interesting how people gravitate towards people?

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  2. PinkerbellJuly 9, 2009 at 8:50 AM

    I think they must have linked through my bloglist, but I find it interesting that there are people here who are not on my other blog. I welcome them all of course, I'm just a bit ashamed I've not put much on here lately. I don't want to rush things though for the sake of posting, I just hope people patiently hang around!

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  3. fileJuly 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM

    know exactly what you mean Pinks, about tales and ripples, the beginning(?) of the great adventure?

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  4. PinkerbellJuly 13, 2009 at 7:21 AM

    File - hello! I'm sure that we all think everyone is managing better than us, but I'm sure we're all struggling the same!

    I like to think that I've made a (controlled) explosive start to my own very small adventure... we'll see!

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  5. fileJuly 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM

    [looks over shoulder] it can be a bit like growing up in public sometimes. There's an interesting discussion about this sort of thing and some dry advice from the Mills, which you've probably read already @ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jul/13/new-publisher-full-circle

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  6. PinkerbellJuly 15, 2009 at 8:48 AM

    It's safe to assume that I've not read *anything* already! Thanks for the link :-)

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  7. PinkerbellJuly 17, 2009 at 6:05 PM

    Sage advice indeed from Billy there. The only way to write is to write for yourself first and foremost.

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  8. limeAugust 4, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    it's one of the fantastic things about blogging, being able to refine our writing and make some friends along the way.

    thanks for your visit by my place as well. :)

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  9. Elizabeth MahlouAugust 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM

    Do you publish your stories, beyond blogging them?

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  10. PinkerbellAugust 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM

    Hi Lime - I'm hoping that I'll be able to get to writing something half-decent here, but if not I've made friends with some interesting people as you say.

    Elizabeth, I've really only just started out writing, at the moment I think I'm a bit better at the poetry than the stories. I find it hard not to overwrite. It's very likely because I'm a bit of a control-freak and I don't leave people enough room to make their own conclusions. I really learnt about the benefit of using sparse words to good effect reading Bonjour Tristesse recently. The author was talking about how the two young lovers reacted to being spotted together and the line was (not quite exactly perhaps) "We parted like thieves". Simple. It conveyed that they moved away from each other guiltily and urgently so as not to give their secret closeness away. I'd have used that many words and probably more. I marvel at other people's writing and I am able to interpret so much in a few of their words, yet I find it so difficult to work out how to write like that myself.

    Do you publish stories?

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  11. Sniffles and SmilesSeptember 14, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    Hi, Pinkerbell...just checking in to see if you've posted anything new here!! Love to you~Janine XO

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  12. pinkerbellSeptember 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM

    Janine sorry to disappoint, but latest attempt at a short story is still in creation stages...

    One day I'll get it done!

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  13. SandeSeptember 19, 2009 at 2:41 PM

    If we didn't express our response, the stones would.

    Just here to throw a bigger rock into your pond and encourage bigger ripples

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  14. pinkerbellOctober 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM

    I'm sorry about the no show here - try me in the ripples blog, there's more action there!

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