Comments on: As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

By: williamhwandless

williamhwandless — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:46:55 +0000

Speaking of creepy: hiya!

I am, alas, the worst cyberstalker ever, but what I lack in skill I make up for in Googly diligence. I will at some point scold you roundly and diagonally for not telling me of the imminent awesome that is The Mariner’s Wife, but in the interim I will bask in the bloggified Bolden. And alliterate. And be grateful that I didn’t accidentally use the same theme, which would have been sooper embarrassing. I can only take the emulation so far, as I cannot rock the bangs.

Incidentally, the only search terms that have led anyone to my blog are “otherwise madness.” I don’t know who to feel sorry for.

By: jessiecarty

jessiecarty — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:30:20 +0000

I print revisions on the back of my rejection slips One of my cats thinks the pile is her personal place to sleep!

By: emmabolden

emmabolden — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:22:31 +0000

Marie — tell me about the rejections. My goodness! Enough to wallpaper a not-small bathroom, in my case.

Secondly: um, CREEPY! CREEPY! Plus, would I REALLY use my real name on my SECRET NaPoWriMo blog?! Awful, awful, and, yes, CREEPY!

By: mariegauthier

mariegauthier — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:36:56 +0000

Strange long trips: someone found my blog because s/he typed the following words into a search engine: “emma bolden secret napowrimo”.

I kid you not.

By: mariegauthier

mariegauthier — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:01:58 +0000

It’s as if all the literary joints are emptying out their rafters, how the rejections are streaming in…. Thankfully, we do have NaPoWriMo to keep us busy, secretly in your case, or quasi-busy in my partly-committed case…

By: emmabolden

emmabolden — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:17:19 +0000

YAY ANNE SEXTON!!! I was trying to think of a break-up poem, and that flitted through my brain, and I thought, well, now I can’t possibly NOT use that poem.

Yes, indeedy, we should definitely have a Very. Serious. Talk. about this.

SECRETS are more exhausting than they should be, no?

I think I’ve settled on “somewhere i’ve never traveled.” The other poem? Haven’t yet decided. I think I might have to balance that out with some Sylvia or Anne.

By: didyousayhername

didyousayhername — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:03:05 +0000

I have chills now, you know. Your blog title is from my MOST FAVORITE ANNE SEXTON POEM EVER.

On a less “all caps” note, I do feel that you and I need to have a serious talk (wow, that sounds very foreboding, though I certainly don’t mean for it to sound that way) — or, rather, an in-depth discussion — about the survival difficulties of arts organizations.

And that is all for tonight, for SECRETS have exhausted me.