Chandrasutra posted a great interview/portrait of Beth from Cassandra Pages (a Vermont/Montreal blogger). If you don’t know Beth and her great writing, this interview is a good place to start.
« It bothers me that many writer-bloggers bemoan the time blogging takes from what they term �real work� � meaning the book or articles they �ought� to be writing – and I�ve argued a lot against that way of thinking, and for blogging as a totally valid medium in its own right. More and more serious writers/thinkers who perhaps don�t need to write for money, or are sick of writing in a prescribed way for very little money, are discovering that through blogging they can satisfy two desires: the desire to write creatively and well about subjects of their own choice, and the desire to receive feedback through a connected community of appreciative readers and other writers. »
Beth has another particularity that she did not mention in the interview: she’s so hard on the keyboard that she erased her fingerprints! Not a great thing to do when you’re an American trying to get through the maze of Canadian immigration… ;-)
