Got a pageview tonight on Swords Against the Mountains. Ezekiel 38:21'ish.
I had ambition to turn that series into a book about Western Pennsylvania and that was one of the titles I was kicking around. "Write about something you know," Hemingway didn't say and I knew, I know, Western Pa. Knew it too well to write about it objectively it turned out. Every time I would come back to it I would get this feeling, I have never had precisely the same feeling before and cannot describe it other than "negative." And my life there, the first 18 years, was not wholly or substantially negative. My years there were great, my family was great, the people were great. I don't know where that "negative" feeling originated and I started to look into my psyche and I decided that looking into my psyche was not a good idea. But the negative feeling was there and every time I wrote something on Western Pa. and I didn't want to feel it anymore. End.
I had ambition to turn that series into a book about Western Pennsylvania and that was one of the titles I was kicking around. "Write about something you know," Hemingway didn't say and I knew, I know, Western Pa. Knew it too well to write about it objectively it turned out. Every time I would come back to it I would get this feeling, I have never had precisely the same feeling before and cannot describe it other than "negative." And my life there, the first 18 years, was not wholly or substantially negative. My years there were great, my family was great, the people were great. I don't know where that "negative" feeling originated and I started to look into my psyche and I decided that looking into my psyche was not a good idea. But the negative feeling was there and every time I wrote something on Western Pa. and I didn't want to feel it anymore. End.
