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I told you there’d be a surprise, and here it is: the top-read post of the year is not from this year. It’s not even from last year. It’s from 2011, a parody of an infamous article in the Wall Street Journal about the darkness in young adult literature (I think I owe a lot of this long life to a much more popular blog that linked to it).
Here it is: “Brightness too Visible”
http://kurtisscaletta.com/2011/06/05/brightness-too-visible/
2014 was a rough year full of long nights at home and disappointment in my publishing endeavors. One silver lining is that I started writing here again regularly, grew my audience and, I think, did some good stuff. When I page back to the first few years of the blog I see how much I’ve grown as a writer even since I sold my first book. One goal for 2015 is to maintain it and cultivate it even more.
Thanks to everyone who reads, shares, comments on, and subscribes to this blog. Have a wonderful 2015.
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The second top-read entry of the year is this one, following the viral outrage in the wake of…. oh, never mind. I try to stop myself blogging about topical stuff, and am often sorry I did when I do. I’m not sorry I wrote this.
http://kurtisscaletta.com/2014/09/13/on-the-way-i-was-raised/
Tomorrow comes the most read post this year. Did I tell you there’s a bit of a surprise? Expect the unexpected.
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The third-place post of 2014 is a recent one: a revisit of Charlotte’s Web after reading it to my son. it is also my favorite of the year.
http://kurtisscaletta.com/2014/12/14/the-unreadable-sentence-and-other-thoughts-on-charlottes-web/
B. has since discovered the movie — the animated one form my own childhood, not the celebrity-choked travesty from a few years ago. He’s watching it as I write this. It’s the scene where Wilbur tries to spin a web.
Have I mentioned that there’s a bit of a surprise to the top post? Stay tuned.
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Yesterday I started counting down the top five posts of the year. The fourth top-getting post was one of many inspired by Beverly Cleary: On Spunky Girls.
http://kurtisscaletta.com/2014/09/25/on-spunky-girls/
In retrospect, I wish I had called the post “Spunky Girls,” having exhausted the “On ______________” and “In which the author ______________” post titles in the first few years of this blog. But it’s a small regret. Too small to mention, I might apophatically add.
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My daughter, Elizabeth West Firment, was born in early November. The last…ever since…has been a nonstop, nonsleep blur of boobs, love, fuss, and delirium. In the process, I have learned these five things:
- Ceiling fans are TV for babies.
- At week six, nursing goes from being a special woodchipper for your nipples to something fairly ok. Eventually, it will become rather pleasant, and you will be able to play World of Warcraft while feeding your child, like my friend Kelly’s wife does. I’m pretty sure she levels up faster by simultaneously breastfeeding and p0wning n00bz.
- The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold cold wet day.
- There is a 4am. It comes before 5am, which is that time you read about once that precedes 6am. You do not have the right to a full night’s sleep. You have given that right to your baby, who may use it as she sees fit.
- Your baby’s smile generates a burst of hormones that if necessary will enable you to lift a car or cut out your own spleen.
Photos are up on flickr. Thanks for all the casseroles!
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A few years ago the Independent put out a call for lists and there were some nice examples from well-known people. So they decided to throw it open to anyone.This was my contribution.
Five things I cannot live without ;
my Polar library
twice-daily arthritis pills
tap water – yes, London vintage
Mum’s pre-war copy of Little Women
with a single colour plate
him indoors
This was my inspiration for my contribution to our Ten Year Anniversary Edition of ABBA this month.
FIVE THINGS A WRITER CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT
1. Inspiration
Mine involves staring which is ok when you are on a deserted beach but can give rise to some tricky moments when you are staring at people in Costa cafe (where I often work) and they start glaring back. Picasso said, "Inspiration is there but it has to find you working." So I write and I grumble and I do displacement stuff and then I find myself going into a stare and there I am - in the wonderful zone of inspiration.
2. Chocolate
I nearly enlarged this picture and those of you who know me will understand why and probably everyone else as well. If inspiration starts with staring then it certainly can be fuelled by chocolate
Don't believe me?
Give it a go!
3. Paper
It has to be the right type. My husband has been perfecting the art of buying me the correct notebooks for over 30 years and trust me, he is the current world expert. Mainly because he can't think of anything else to buy me for birthday presents. I have notebooks to fill from Harrods, the Metropolitan m
Top five things you do NOT want to see at the pool
5. Any child standing in the shallow end with a guilty look on their face.
4. The bikini lady that has enough dimples to open a golf ball store.
3. Grampa, with gray hair sticking out of his speedo.
2. Last night’s party goers swinging from a bottle of anti-diarrhea medicine
1. Chocolate ice cream in the bottom of the pool !
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John, you are a STAR. Must have taken you ages and ages. Now, go and relax.
Thanks, Nicola! Will do - but don't forget, there's one more post to come at 7.00pm!
Oh, I'm ever so thrilled to be at number 1! And I've had a lovely time re-reading all the other posts - brilliant work John! I will tweet links tomorrow (I've been out all day and it's now the middle of the night in the UK!)