{"id":6092,"date":"2011-12-30T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T11:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2012-01-03T05:40:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T10:40:59","slug":"maybe-literary-isnt-quite-the-word-im-looking-for-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6092","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Literary Isn\u2019t Quite the Word I\u2019m Looking For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about this blog lately and am wondering if I named it usefully.\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s a sweet piece of alliteration, The Life Literary.\u00a0 It\u2019s also convoluted or\u00a0backwards in a slightly poetic way.\u00a0 You would\u00a0expect to find\u00a0the adjective before the noun (The Literary Life) instead of the reverse as I have written it.<\/p>\n<p>I worry and wonder if the title is too elite-sounding, too\u00a0high-falutin\u2019, too <em>New Yorker<\/em> magazine or\u00a0<em>New York Review of Books<\/em>.\u00a0 I want to be writing things that a wide range of people can enjoy and get ideas from.\u00a0 To be sure, I sometimes wish I had become a literary professional, was\u00a0well versed in both classic and modern books, and earned my bread teaching and writing\u00a0literature.\u00a0 Living the life I have lived,\u00a0I have at least found ways\u00a0to\u00a0make the joy of good words, with all their power to deepen, to heal, to entertain, an important part of my life.<\/p>\n<p>My goals for this blog are the same:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first goal\u00a0is to share ideas for adding words to life, making the joy, the fun, the deepening and healing power of words available and accessible\u00a0to anyone,\u00a0from non-literary professionals like me to the pros: editors, teachers, writers.\u00a0 I have loved words all my life and am compiling the many things I have done to simply enjoy them.\u00a0 From writing in a journal, to collecting words, from making puns to writing essays, from memorizing poems to writing my own, and many more word things to do, my first goal with this blog is to compile them here in one place.<\/li>\n<li>The other goal is to provide a forum for my own writing: essays, puns, memoir, description, poetry and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I\u2019m going to start saying it differently.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to change the title of the blog, for now, but\u00a0here are some ideas of how I&#8217;ll talk about it:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Words for their own sake.<br \/>\nWords for words\u2019 sake.<br \/>\nWords: For the fun of it.<br \/>\nWords Just Because.<br \/>\nTo Simply Enjoy Words<br \/>\nWording the World<br \/>\nWorlding Words<\/p>\n<p>I guess I could call the blog, <em>The Worded Life, <\/em>or<em> The Life Worded<\/em>, but maybe that would be going a bit too far.\u00a0 For now, I&#8217;ll keep setting down all the ways, both simple and complex, that a person could enjoy words simply for the sake of enjoying words.\u00a0\u00a0 And, I&#8217;ll keep writing here as I, too, live the worded life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about this blog lately and am wondering if I named it usefully.\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s a sweet piece of alliteration, The Life Literary.\u00a0 It\u2019s also convoluted or\u00a0backwards in a slightly poetic way.\u00a0 You would\u00a0expect to find\u00a0the adjective before &hellip; 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