Comments for Writing for Strangers http://writingforstrangers.com Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Home is Forgetting by Angela http://writingforstrangers.com/2011/11/01/home-is-forgetting/#comment-493 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:54:58 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=408#comment-493 The first stanza of Winter was just perfect, startling in a welcoming way. I didn’t realize I had stopped breathing. It’s okay, I remembered and resumed.

Thanks!
Angela

]]> Comment on All of us, strangers by Lena http://writingforstrangers.com/2011/12/09/all-of-us-strangers-2/#comment-475 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:42:09 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=417#comment-475 Such a well-crafted essay and a refreshing interpretation to the original piece. That article on Joyce Vincent utilizes a lot of scare-tactics, macabre imagery, and uncomfortable wording, i.e. Vincent was “said resemble a pre-decline Whitney Houston” (!?!) but offers little hope or possible alternative solutions. It also has a painfully large dose of stereotypes: in the US, for example, rural folk are not bitter but actually happier than their suburban and urban counterparts, unlike the author would lead one to believe. (I was surprised by this but it makes sense upon reflection.) Furthermore, I really doubt that most city dwellers are but one “lost job, divorce, a time of lying low” away from vanishing.

Your essay picks up on everything the first one lacks, a personal touch that is honest and empowered rather than fearful and projecting. Yea! Plus, those Google terms are really, REALLY interesting: I know you’d alluded to them before but, wow, what great finds for such a recent searches! Now, that said, I’m afraid to ever do a Google search again!! ;-)

]]> Comment on A Single-Girl Manifesto by Gerri http://writingforstrangers.com/2011/09/03/a-single-girl-manifesto/#comment-458 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:09:20 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=402#comment-458 Furrealz? That’s maevrlously good to know.

]]> Comment on Reclaiming Femme: Queer Women of Colour and Femme Identity by Mina http://writingforstrangers.com/writing/non-fictionopinion/reclaiming-femme-queer-women-of-colour-and-femme-identity/#comment-398 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:48:33 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?page_id=167#comment-398 Could you say a bit more about gender being a choice please? I really don’t think this is true. Perhaps its more that you feel and others may feel that their gender is a choice? I know that I personally struggled for over ten years from realising I was queer and not knowing how to take on the gender that I didn’t feel comfortable with. I’m sure that I wasn’t choosing to make myself uncomfortable by feeling disharmony.

]]> Comment on “Writer” by leigh-anne http://writingforstrangers.com/2010/02/23/writer/#comment-348 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:55:11 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=147#comment-348 Thinking of you today, V. You are very wonderful and I’m glad you keep writing.

]]> Comment on A Single-Girl Manifesto by Tassja http://writingforstrangers.com/2011/09/03/a-single-girl-manifesto/#comment-332 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:44:32 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=402#comment-332 This poem left me breathless. I LOVE reclaiming female literary/ mythological figures and giving them voice, and your poem is both exquisitely crafted and unmistakeably powerful. I will be sharing this with MANY people. Completely blown away by your writing!

]]> Comment on Site stats: Search terms by MIcky http://writingforstrangers.com/2011/02/08/site-stats-search-terms/#comment-331 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:58:52 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=316#comment-331 This is amazing! I think my personal favourite is “coulo femme,” even though “kate beaton stalker” is also priceless. Just, wow :)

]]> Comment on A Single-Girl Manifesto by Lise http://writingforstrangers.com/2011/09/03/a-single-girl-manifesto/#comment-328 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:19:09 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=402#comment-328 So true, so well said…thank you xx

]]> Comment on I Still Exist (or: Thoughts from Vancouver in August) by Lena http://writingforstrangers.com/2011/08/13/i-still-exist-or-thoughts-from-vancouver-in-august/#comment-321 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:08:39 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=400#comment-321 Ooh, how exciting to see a new post by you, Vanessa! Vancouver sounds *even* more amazing when you describe it here. :-)

I really, really like this line because it’s sweet and funny and honest: “it’s like a weirdly backwards version of high school: less makeup, shorter hair, cutoffs, as much sex as possible.” (It’s even more amusing when you switch around the nouns and adjectives. ;-) I’m so glad your summer has been all this and more and I hope your autumn proves just as good (although I might wear another layer under those cutoffs eventually for when it starts getting cold… :-P )

I have to agree with NewlyDyke about ‘Dear John, I Love Jane.” It’s not quite the very situation I’m going through right now, as you know, but the whole tone and spirit of the book has been so powerful and positive for me right now, too.

So, if I may ask, what are your hopes/expectations/etc. for the fall and winter now that you’re back in Montreal?

]]> Comment on I Still Exist (or: Thoughts from Vancouver in August) by NewlyDyke http://writingforstrangers.com/2011/08/13/i-still-exist-or-thoughts-from-vancouver-in-august/#comment-320 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:05:41 +0000 http://writingforstrangers.com/?p=400#comment-320 What part of it do you agree with, Westwood? The “As much sex as possible” part? hahaha

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