The crafting of my website turned out to be a metaphor for who I am and who I wanted people to think I am. Was I deliberately trying to be deceiving? I don’t think so, but then again that comment may be deceptive in itself. The answer is I really don’t know.
Not unlike social media, a website is an almost irresistible opportunity to show yourself at your best.
It’s “This is the Me I’d like to be” time.
Maybe I should have two websites. One for public viewing only and a private one to keep me honest.
The latter would be covered with gnarled-up pieces of paper of commentary I didn’t deem worthy. And that is an understatement. If I tried to count them all up just for the last 12 years I have been writing this column, I probably couldn’t count that high. If I go back to all the years I’ve been writing, total, well let’s just say there aren’t enough trash bins to hold it all.
If I step back a little further to my early days, when, like many new writers, I thought anything I wrote was too important to be tossed because sometime down the road the idea could spawn another idea and that would be the big one. Unlike earthquakes, with writing you are always looking for the “big one.”
Mind you, I’m a big fan of keeping notebooks of ideas for future inspiration. Some of those ideas have morphed into columns. Others just gave me a good laugh. But clearly now in the wisdom of my later years, I understand that not all of them were gold.
As time passed, and as much as I have belly-ached about them, computers taught me an important lesson. I learned to hit the delete button. Often. That is likely the reason for whatever limited success I have had as a writer.
I was going to keep this revelation for my secret honesty website but somehow that just seems wrong. The fact that I’m worrying about this may reveal something about my character, but I’m not sure what.
So here is the website I think is me: www.patriciabunin.com. Though one can never be totally sure.
Email patriciabunin@sbcglobal.net follow her on Twitter @patriciabunin
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