I think, due to the overwhelming popularity/influence of Faulkner, that to use this name for writing is suicide. What do you think of pen names? Are they necessary? I have been toying with this idea for a long time. I like the name Della because it was my favorite, departed grandmother's name. Not sure about the last name. This pen name is the name I had wanted to name the elusive third child, the one my husband wouldn't let me have. And now I have no uterus, so I really can not have this third child. I do, however, find myself happy to report that I no longer have said husband.
A Book Review of Sark's (2008) Juicy Pens Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It
A Book Review of Juicy Pens Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It by Sark. Three Rivers press, 2008. 185 pages. $18.95. When I first discovered Sark, I was at once inspired, envious, and critical. I remember sitting on my best friend’s bed, covered in its usual tangle of sarongs and tapestries rather than real bed clothes, growing more incredulous as I flipped each page of Succulent Wild Woman (1997). What kind of new-age hippie crap was this? Someone had gotten paid to write this ? These doodles and handwritten pages were worthy of my ultimate goal, that pinnacle of success, PUBLICATION? But each spunky drawing and passage motivated me to continue my own writing. Sark wrote the way I wrote, turning letters to friends into artwork, and if she could get paid for it then I could. ...
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