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John's avatar

Oooh!...Yes, definitely 'a new sort of thing' and one that I hope sticks around a while.

Thank you, Ali.

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Ali Millar's avatar

I suspect it might. I’m doing some new kinds of writing and this seems to be helping me get to that.

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John's avatar

As always, I'm here for it.

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Bruce Maltby's avatar

'and I don’t want to lose my ability to write a beautiful sentence' - I have a distinct impression that will be hard to happen.

You play with the subject matter ( Kitten and (Blue/(Red) ball of string ), embracing it lightly not looking straight at it but because of that you seem to see and transcribe clearly & engagingly.

Always a pleasure to read your words.

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Ali Millar's avatar

thank you. I like the kitten analogy. I think if you look too directly at a thing all you replicate is the thing, a kind of landscape painting maybe, but nothing exciting and certainly no space for the reader or any kind of subtext. It’s almost tyrannical maybe for a writer to present the thing as is - although that’s never possible either.

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Robin Riback's avatar

Wow excellent writing! Poetic and descriptive. Your writing. as you call them, “experiments” seem more like polished prose poetry. 👍👍👍👍

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Michael Gease's avatar

Wonderful prose. Better to be half than none.

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Richard Foster's avatar

Here’s me, just to ask you something about structure…

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Ali Millar's avatar

why hello. ask then.

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Richard Foster's avatar

Mail coming.

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