Laurabelle’s Blog

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful girl named Rapunzel. She lived... What's that, love? You know this story already? Well now, of course you do, child, but you don't know the whole tale, and nor do I. You may as well count all the water-drops in the sea as tell a whole life [...]

Dorothea's recent referral to a certain kind of crisis reminds me of a story that isn't wholly mine to tell. I desperately want to write it, but I can't, not unless I can tell it truly but not literally.

Continuing the meta-blogging discussion, Steve Himmer argues that a blog is inherently a literary form, with its own characteristics, different from any other:

The inter-blog discussion of oblique writing has morphed into one of truth in blogging. How much skewing of literal truth is acceptable in a personal, autobiographical blog? Obviously there's never going to be any agreement among all the participants (after all, this is blog-world), but it's an interesting subject and perhaps very revealing of personalities.

Until this afternoon, if you asked me why I kept a blog (two blogs, in fact), I would have told you that it was so people would read it. I've just realized that I was wrong.

Jeremy Zawodny wrote an entry about The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers (via Burningbird). I agree with his list, and I don't think I'm guilty of those sins, even the most-insidious lack-of-original-content traps. I don't have an About me page (#5 on Jeremy's list) on this site, though I do have one on my [...]

My friend Maggie has a .plan, and she writes on it a lot. Basically, if I want to stay at all in touch with what's going on in her life, I have to read her .plan, because she very rarely emails. (Part of that's due to the fact that she has very high standards for [...]

This time the blogging world (or at least the part of it that I read) is afire about an article that Clay Shirky wrote on the subject of power distributions between weblogs. Basically the idea is that in the same way as 20% of the population holds 80% of the wealth, a small percentage of [...]