Comments on: Hurt by Those You Love

By: J.A. Hudson

J.A. Hudson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:17:17 +0000

About your latest post (the one about how the girl in your elementary school smelled): What are you scared about? I only started reading this blog recently, because of the posts about writing, but some of the things you say are really disturbing. Also, why are comments closed? It seems like you’re saying, “I want you to read my stuff, but I don’t care what you have to say about it.” Is that true?

By: Someone you have met

Someone you have met — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:46:17 +0000

I’m adding one item to my “things to be thankful for” list–that it took eleven posts until someone brought up the “gay” thing. I thought that was an excellent way of expressing how contrived the hollywood confrontation can be to people who live in the real world.

Write more, Frank, and write about more. With your skills, you shouldn’t waste it all on attempts at catharsis.

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:17:44 +0000

Definitely NOT gay…no complaints there.

By: frank

frank — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:51:56 +0000

No, sorry, not gay. You still have to blame yourself.

By: Rapunzel

Rapunzel — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:13:51 +0000

Are you gay? Because that would explain SO much.

By: frank

frank — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:16:02 +0000

Thanks, Molls. The people who come here and read regularly always have something constructive to say, whether it’s positive or negative. The others just go away eventually.

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:05:09 +0000

Hey, I don’t comment much here (unless it’s about fights resulting from attempted insemination), but for whatever it might be worth, I don’t see why you focusing on yourself and your reactions to events in your life is such a bad thing considering this is your website for you to write about what you want. I don’t have an opinion on whether you should have certain thoughts about your father or not or if you’re being unfair to him or whatever, because I have no fucking clue, but you’re a good writer and your stories about your life and running internal monologue are often really engaging.

By: Hazel Romanowsky

Hazel Romanowsky — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:23:35 +0000

If it is that draining to read, why read it at all? I don’t see any of you putting yourselves out there like that. Such denigration is uncalled for, especially when the article was an acknowledgement of his own faults.

By: frank

frank — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:29:22 +0000

Thanks, Meg. I reacted to her comment on “Big Brother.” It wasn’t about my writing at all.

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:44:14 +0000

Frank I’m a fan of your “bleak boring” writing. I am also thankful that you sweat every sentence. `Cause there’s not much worse than verbosity. I think Elizar missed your point while he/she was making his/her speech. That said, I really enjoyed the fiction/non workshops. I believe that fiction is the truth clothed in lies and memoir is lies clothed in the truth. Actually, isn’t it all a fiction because it’s all subjective — we can never lose the writer’s point of view. Okay, yeah, you were probably hiding.