Clarity
Wednesday February 15th 2012, 2:48 amI’ve just come to realize from a comment someone has left that the subtitle on 2306152 blog page found at the tab above has been unfortunately misleading. Everything I write for that blog has a place in reality, it is not fiction. It is a daily chronicle of my life, sometimes in abstract terms, while others are much more direct and highly personal. Like the ones of this past week for example. The daily blog is my attempt at capturing a year in my life, from the mundane to the very intense, while mostly trying to do it in one single paragraph a day. But the latest post was a very emotionally tough one, and based on the comment left, some of you may feel I’m being hurtful by exploiting pain untruthfully. But I assure you there isn’t one word that isn’t true in this blog. And I felt it important to clarify that right now. The misleading subtitle will be changed as soon as possible to “a yearlong blog experiment”.
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Thank you for your support in my doing this docu-blog. And thats the deal with anything documentary in nature, the hard stuff has to be there too if its going to have any real meaning.
Comment by jhw3 02.15.12 @ 12:54 pmsome of you may feel I’m being hurtful by exploiting pain untruthfully
I hope you didn’t take my comment that way. While I was surprised when I got to the 2306152 blog’s main page and saw the (now-removed) phrase “fiction experiment” after having landed on the post’s own page from elsewhere, I merely felt confused — not taken in or upset. Fiction — good fiction, at least — is not untruthful anyway; it’s merely not literal. I figured that the post, even if not documenting actual events, was based all too sadly on them — and I felt terrible all over again not only to find out that you are indeed going through this pain but that I’ve prompted you to defend your expression of it here.
Hello Brian
Don’t worry. Your statement merely pointed out that it could be confusing. Which is what it caused for you. So my clarification wasn’t meant as a defense, but rather to avoid such confusion. What you said was quite helpful.
I haven’t found anything gratuitously hurtful in any of your writing. Reality is reality. You’re human. 🙂
Comment by Ashley Helling 02.17.12 @ 10:10 amHello Ashley
Thank you. I was fearful that some may have found the recent posts hurtful mainly from the fact that the secondary daily blog page had used the word “fiction” in it’s subtitle. I could see how that would be misleading, or confusing that the blogs being posted weren’t real depictions of my life in some way. Especially with the most recent ones. So I thought it best to change the subtitle and let everyone know, and that everything I write about has really happened or is happening. From the beginning I’ve always intended for the blog to be a sort of a simplistic documentary thing, but with some of it being abstract perspectives analyzing what is around me, and what I experience.
Thanks again
Comment by jhw3 02.17.12 @ 12:14 pmYour welcome. This whole thread reminds me of a saying I can’t recall the source of:
“Of course the truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” 🙂
Comment by Ashley Helling 02.19.12 @ 7:40 pmLeave a Comment
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I don’t think there’s anything “hurtful” at all in what you’ve written. Not all art is sunshine and smiling faces. Sometimes sharing art hurts and evokes difficult emotions. Please don’t stop sharing.
Comment by Pam 02.15.12 @ 7:14 am