Last month a newspaper reporter and writer named Morgan Sherburne wrote an essay about some of my blog posts. (The connection: Morgan is dating Matt Dunn, who does Fishbeer, one of my favorite blogs.)
Prior, I had not heard the term “Flash Essay.” I just like to write short.
Tagged: is posting this self-promotion?
She’s written a cool essay. And nails it in explaining why I enjoy reading Fishing Jones.
I like to write short, too. I’m not all that good at it yet.
Thanks Mat. Congrats btw on the CCG gig. See your name all over that blog.
Thanks, Pete. It’s fun having access to some of the best tiers around. Hoping to really dive into it once I get settled in on the west coast & get these Africa work gigs outta the way.
Africa work gigs sounds like a great experience, even if it is in a job context.
Nice tag.
Hah. I had to acknowledge it.
Ha, thanks for linking to it. And apologies for stalker-esque essays.
Thanks for writing it, no apologies necessary.
Posting a post about your posts is very elliptical, no?
You mean circular?
Hell.
Blaise Paschal wrote at the end of a letter “Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.” Or, in English, “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
Your writing is tight, and your effort shows.
I’ve always liked that, but never knew who said it. Thanks for posting.
It’s so much easier to just vomit words onto the page than to use imagination and play out the scene, shaving it down to the skeleton of the thing.
I read, and enjoyed.
Hey thanks, much appreciated.