I’m talking/thinking/breathing writing lately. My personal blog is full of thoughts about stories and characters and publishing and…I’m bored with it!

I can talk about writing here, and at Romance Divas, and in IMs with my writer-friends. But my friends and I also talk about our kids and husbands, dreams and goals, and just the random thoughts that make us human. This week I started realising my blog is very much about a writer, not so much about a human. A reflection of my state of mind, too, I’m afraid.

Of course, husbands and kids don’t much appreciate it when you blog about them. Or, at least not if you blog the truth But, it seems to me they bear mentioning, at least once in a while.

There was a question posted to one of my yahoo groups this week, too. How well do you like to know your authors? I don’t. I mean, I have a couple authors who make me weak in the knees; total fangirl. I visit their websites, but I don’t think I’d ever go to their blog. What if they post when they’re drunk? What if they’re womanizers? What if they’re, well, all too human?

I was a vocal minority on that point, though. Most readers seemed to like to know their authors, interact with them. But it got me wondering: what do you want to know about your fave authors? What *don’t* you want to know? And what could you learn that would turn you off their writing entirely?

3 Responses to “Reclaiming my humanity”

1. Shelli Stevens Says:
   October 27th, 2006 at 9:26 pm

   You know, I like authors that have blogs. I like knowing that they’re just as human as me. Because I’m past the point where I get starstruck over any author. Maybe because we have some big names in Seattle. But to me they’re just normal and have had success. The blog just makes them more approachable to me

2. Diana Castilleja Says:
   October 28th, 2006 at 6:48 pm

   I like knowing the authors, but not so much as to have to read their blog constantly or dying to know when they’ve updated their sites.

   I like the familiarity of a name, and maybe a taste of their personality, but not much more than that. I like interacting with other people, and if they write, cool. But not because they are a writer, if that makes sense.

   I like having friends I can yak with. I like have friends who are writers I can bounce ideas off of and have them tell me when something really sucks. They don’t have to be the same people either.

   I guess the writers I’m in awe of, I’d like to meet, but it’s hard to form fast and tight friendships in a business environment. And my writing is my job. So… Long story short. Yes I like knowing writers, but no, I don’t have to ‘know’ them.

3. Sara Dennis Says:
   October 31st, 2006 at 12:58 am

   I like to know a little bit about authors, but I don’t need to feel like a best friend. I *have* some very good friends who write, but I pretty much knew them before they were “writers”, you know? Back in the day when they were not big names.

   There are personal things I don’t need to know about, well, most people. There’s sharing pieces about your life, and then there’s oversharing. I don’t particularly want to overshare with some of my really good friends. I sure don’t want it from someone who’s essentially a stranger.