(Note (8/30/2011): When I publish new posts, I find myself unable to resist tinkering with the old ones. Do you do this, too? Just changing words here or there, reshaping the sentences? This is why a lot of writers hate blogging, I think. Because nothing ever has to be "finished." I've always wanted to create a writer character who breaks into libraries late at night, rips pages from his books, slashes out sentences, never able to let the story stand still. This is sort of what it feels like for me as a blogger, this constant revision, without all the
Fun little story. On my original Spaces tour I met a woman named Lynda Barry. You may’ve heard of her. She’s a famous writer & artist. I met her in Eugene, Oregon, where by fate or coincidence we both happened to be on the same day.
Now flash forward 18 months.
Problem: all my extra postcards are in my car...which is in the shop.
Solution: I hastily Scotch tape two quarters to a bookmark
Normally I have plenty of time to chat with the authors after the event, but her signing line is HUGE, meaning I have about six additional seconds to give her this weird taped bookmark before I have to leave and hustle back to the bookshop.
I decide to go for it.
“Wait,” she says, “I know you!”
“Yeah, we met in Oregon almost two years ago. Sort of.”
“Right, the big postcard. I had it in my purse for months. It got all bent up. I kept trying to think what to write but then I guess I just lost it. Sorry!”
“Well I have this bookmark here, it explains it all over again.”
“I won’t let you down this time!”
"Thanks!"
And that’s it. She went back to autographing books.
I had a bounce in my step all the next day.
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