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In Search Of An Original Idea

Oct 10, 2019
by Caroline Miller
Blogs, curating, Eric Hoffer, Hello Sweetheart, Love Song of J. Alfrrd Prufrock, Michael Kingsley, plagiarism, T. S. Eliot
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People sometimes ask if I’ve thought about publishing a selection of my blogs in book form.  Naturally, I’m flattered, just as I am when they suggest my novels would make great movies. Such notions don’t swell my head. Steven Spielberg, I know, won’t be calling soon.  As for the blogs, they will never be bound in book form.  What I do here is unoriginal. 

Michael Kingsley might describe my daily jottings as akin to my being a curator.  (“Hello, Sweetheart, Get Me Data!”, by Michael Kingsley, Vanity Fair, Sept. 2016, pg. 177.)  That’s true, in part.  I assemble the work of others.  Though I’m not entirely a curator.  I do add commentary, so the practice isn’t exactly plagiarism — though that term might be applied to many writers as we tend to feed upon each other. 

When Eric Hoffer’s publisher complained one of his books was too short, the author bristled.  The work provided 6 original ideas, he said.  That should be enough to satisfy any reader.

Six original ideas?  Can that be said of the whole of Shakespeare?

I am no Eric Hoffer, so I do borrow. Yet, I hope, I give these used thoughts a  provocative perspective that makes them fresh.  Six provocative ideas should be enough for any reader.  Nonetheless, for lack of true originality, my handful of admirers should never hope to see my work in a collection with my name emblazoned in gold across the cover.  Like J. Alfred Prufrocks, I am no Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be.  I am an attendant lord, meant to swell a progress, start a scene or two.  (“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T. S. Eliot, The Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot, Faber & Faber Limited, Mcmxxxvi, pg. 15)  

The point of these blogs is to allow others to know me better. The point of these blogs is to sell my books.  Now there’s an original idea.

(Originally published 8/30/16)

 

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4 Comments
  1. Pamela August 30, 2016 at 3:19 pm Reply
    You are such an interesting and thoughtful soul, Caroline. I love "knowing" you.
    • Caroline Miller August 30, 2016 at 3:46 pm Reply
      Now isn't that strange? I was having the exact same thoughs about you and all your adventures
  2. Sydney Stevens October 10, 2019 at 8:24 am Reply
    Ditto and Amen, Caroline!
    • Caroline Miller October 10, 2019 at 10:40 am Reply
      Writers know we could live without each other.

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published five novels

  • Getting Lost To Find Home
  • Ballet Noir
  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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