Comments on: Book review: Writing Motherhood

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:31:47 +0000

I actually started my blog to take advantage of the time I’m at home with the kids, especially when they are young, to capture some of the experiences while they happen. With my memory, they get lost rather quickly . And it’s also “my time” – to enjoy my love of writing. I never really intended it to be for others, but since I’ve been making some blog pals and getting more traffic I’m finding it more gratifying to be able to share my little world.
I’ve also bought some beautiful diaries in the hopes to actually write notes in – but like you, I find it so much easier to type on the keypad. I get cramps with longhand too! My son finds it miraculous that I can type without looking at the keys. I didn’t win my Gr. 9 speed-typing contest for nuthin’!

By: Matthew M. F. Miller

Matthew M. F. Miller — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:45:07 +0000

I’ll have to check it out – even though I’m not a mom. Sounds like there’s lots of good advice to be had for all writers.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:20:32 +0000

I wondered if the book had a site, googled the title and ended up on Oprah’s book club site and found this:
“While I was writing, he spit up orange juice on the tablet that I was writing on, and I distinctly remember writing around it, because I thought I had this really perfect sentence that might not come back if I stopped and wiped up his puke.”
Â Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, Paradise, The Bluest Eye
I like to think I’d wipe the keyboard. Probably.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:03:15 +0000

Very good review. Thanks. I have been wanting to read this book and now feel I have a good idea of what I have been — or not been — missing.

By: Loukia

Loukia — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:49:55 +0000

Part 2
I also consider myself a writer, as by profession, that is what I am, starting my last year in University when I was hired by The New RO as a news writer, so writing news was what I started with, and then moving on to writing for radio and being a reporter on-air – writing, reporting, and editing go hand in hand. From there I moved on to Rogers TV and got to be creative there and then working in the government as a comms advisor, and editor and now I get to write all day long, although nothing THAT creative… and I had a few articles published in Ottawa Life Magazine and I thought that was cool. I think I should have gotten into print instead of TV and radio broadcasting, to be honest with you! I’d love to publish a few children’s books in the future…ya never know!

By: Loukia

Loukia — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:11:18 +0000

I love your blog, because it is a mom blog and I love other blogs like yours, too. My blog is just ‘not there’ in terms of a ‘good mom blog’ because I just can’t write about the daily wonders and struggles of motherhood and post it for all to see. I do, however, keep a beautiful notebook at home, filled page after page, about my son, and motherhood, and the things my boy does daily that amaze me. My true feelings are words are in that notebook and the notebooks to come. I can freely write in that, knowing only my son and I will read it. I just can’t do it on the Internet. I have tried but I only post some things, like what we did, what new words he is saying, how fun he is, how tired I am, etc… I just can’t openly write about motherhood on my blog, like I do in my notebook. I just cherish some things and consider them to be private and that’s why I keep the notebook with pen by my bedside!