Free-e-Day Stuff (by sarah)
Though I couldn't get to the actual physical venue in Oxford yesturday I did spend alot of time online taking part in the discuessions and listening to the free music. As a result I found three new bands that I like and bored everyone silly in the online chats.
Although to my suprise I got good feedback on a poem of mine I linked too and stuff and got thanks today for participating in the workshops 🙂
But this does mean that you had better steady yourself for a few long rambling posts on the nature of language and the future of the novel, the internet and equality etc...
I really did enjoy this event - just having deep discussions about things reminded me of university alot. It also made me think about my status as a writer and artist.
It was a shock to have people saying things like I'm a pioneer and and other generally heady things.
But mainly I was again struck by the fact that the distinction between the truelly artistic and truelly sciencentific mind is false. How creativity is about those too things - I know I rabbit about this alot but this particular false dicotomy is bad news for everyone leading to loathing when open discussion should be being broach.
I am side tracking myself again!
Any way - basically I really enjoyed it and I think that I can't really deny I am an artist and writer anymore even though I feel grrr... about using science to write poetry and scifi rather than saving the world with it.
Oh and the Wiggly Pets really enjoyed it too - its the first time anyones said that actually like the Wiggly Pet blog rather than just saying how cute the Wiggly Pets themselves are.
Uncategorised | sarah | 
Wed 2nd Dec 2009 5:00 pm
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