sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2006-02-07 06:01 am (UTC)

Well, there's a difference between complimenting you and complimenting your writing ability.

I am working on it, all right? I no longer blither like an idiot when people express a liking for my stories. (I just want to hide under the table. I haven't, so far . . .) One of my students turned up yesterday reading Singing Innocence and Experience in the McDougal Center and I only thanked him profusely for contributing to the Allow Sovay To Afford A Non-Sketchy Apartment Fund and, once he'd located a pen, signed it thus for him. I just still feel weird about multiple nominations. There must be other, more worthwhile poems out there, aren't there?

but had I picked people like Mark Price or Anika Sorenstam or Robert Varkoyni you probably would not have reecognized them.

Yeah. My basic reaction to all of those people was: who?

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