Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been a little quiet recently.  I’ve been trying to decide whether to continue with my blog.  I want to develop my writing and intend to write a book.  My dilemma has been whether my blog writing has enough people reading it to support the amount of time I spend writing it.  I am happy to continue but this is your chance - if you read my writing, let me know.  Please put a “YES” if you do, in my ask box and I’ll tally the votes.  If I don’t keep blogging, those of you who wish to continue corresponding with me, please also let me know.  

“The truth is, you can never go back - change is a one way ticket.”

Excerpt from, “There’s No Going Back,” to be posted tomorrow, April 17, on “A View From Outside The Box.” (url: adialogue)

What does a 12 step program for procrastinators look like?  A room of empty chairs.

“Hello…I am a procrastinator.  It’s been about five minutes since my last avoidance.”                 © S. Marian, Apr. 3, 2012

Don’t procrastinate, there is help (and humour) within your grasp.  Come to “A View From Outside the Box” tomorrow and read all of, “Procrastination is Something Best Put Off Until Tomorrow.”                        (url: adialogue)

“I absolutely loved it! Your descriptions of love and loss and being taken away from a home are so moving… Is there to be a part 4, or are you leaving the ending open to interpretations? :)”

onceaponanothertime

There will be (I think), two more parts to “People Tend To Run When Chased.”  Thank you for your message and sticking with it and for all of you who have.  This character is on a journey and although she’s my creation, I’m only a catalyst that shaped the raw materials of her into rough form.  (That sounds a bit lofty but I really believe it.)  It’s you, the reader, that nurtured her and made her real in your imagination. Every one of you will have a slightly different idea of who she is,  would give a different description and I like that too.      

~adialogue

It’s not often I have been able to refer to such a fellowship, writers can be a funny, private sort of people.  Private and guarding of their efforts, perhaps concerned that by showing an interest in one of their kind, shedding a little light in that direction may somehow dim them by comparison.  I am happy to have met the exception to the rule.  Thank you very much “squawkback” for following me with your site of tantalising excerpts.  I noted the link and a simple copy and paste took me to another world, a world of limitless possibility.  This is a site with the writing of many writers, well organised, by date, title of piece or author.  I look forward to having a look at this in the near future.  For now, thank you for your patronage on “A View Outside the Box,” I offer you an excerpt (I didn’t even try to find “the best,” I just selected this for mood, description, the spirit of the tale it captures) from Kenneth Graham’s, “The Wind in the Willows.”  I offer this as thanks and to illustrate how simple, effective writing can live on, beyond the words.

“The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated.  By the side of the river he trotted as one trots when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.”

(From Chapter One, Kenneth Graham, “Wind in the Willows”)