C'mon - Grandmother is Dead - sighted on Facebook

Sighted on Facebook:

"C'mon - Grandmother is dead - and she doesn't have a Facebook page!"  - Maybe that's why we write (blog, face off? on FB - twitter) - to prove we are not yet dead.

Kyi May Kaung

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Photo of Green Banana in USA - copyright Kyi M. Kaung.

The platform, the platform, what is your platform?

My comment left on a writing site:

"Platform" is just a buzz word - yes, losing some currency, but at its peak about 5 years ago -

the ultimate platform is all writers write about good vs. evil.

JK Rowling worked at Amnesty International but that was not her platform - and I don't think it helped her sell books, though she has been very generous with donating to Amnesty.  Amnesty clients are in poor countries, in prison - they don't buy many books there.

The books themselves helped her sell books.

I think these buzz words are over-rated and it's how money is got from the ultimate suckers - aspiring writers.

I even hate it when people call me an "aspiring writer" "an emerging writer" etc etc.

A writer is someone who writes, period.

We may be aspiring to write like Dickens, but we are already writing, not "aspiring to write."

We may be trying to get published - By the way, the darned platform may change -

who says writers don't also write for money or to pay the bills?

Kyi May Kaung

Comment left on Kanlaon's Anthropologist blog - ref. Asian calligraphy and writing -

Your insights on calligraphy and using the form/structure of what you are currently reading to write is great - that's what I do too. I am sure you must also like Franz Kline's "calligraphic" paintings - I did not know about him and his work until one critic compared my paintings to his. Kyi May Kaung

Kyi May Kaung has been nominated The Next Big Thing in Writing - on Kanlaon's blog

http://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/meme-the-next-big-thing-courtesy-of-luisa-igloria-part-i/#respond

Sidewalk bookseller in Rangoon, Burma - frame grab.

James Joyce and Dublin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce

Excellent interview of Nobel Laureate in Literature, Orhan Pamuk

http://rasanaatreya.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/talk-by-orhan-pamuk/ Interviewer is unappealing, and don't think he read all the books. I like My Name is Red and Snow. But Pamuk ranges over a wide range of issues - only others who might talk like this are Hemingway, maybe Dickens, and Salman Rushdie - kmk