tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post5783775765135787984..comments2024-03-22T21:55:42.651+00:00Comments on Elizabeth Baines: Real writersElizabeth Baineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-50859146920813498492009-05-02T18:28:00.000+01:002009-05-02T18:28:00.000+01:00That's interesting, Sue. Quite the opposite of my ...That's interesting, Sue. Quite the opposite of my early impulse, I think, though I guess we're agreed on wanting knowledge of our personal selves to fade away for readers once they are reading our work...Elizabeth Baineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-62848028995153703522009-05-02T15:33:00.000+01:002009-05-02T15:33:00.000+01:00This is a difficult one for sure. I read your oth...This is a difficult one for sure. I read your other blog and, actually, had just finished reading the Guardian article. It is very interesting what you say about your name. I know I thought long and hard about what I would call myself...not that I thought about another name entirely, but about whether my name would be Sue or Susan or Susie or Susan R. I guess I assumed that people would make assumptions about me, rightly or wrongly, as soon as they saw my name regardless of whether they had read any bio stuff or not. And as long as that was true, I decided I'd want people's assumptions to be as close to the "reality" of who I am as is possible. In my case, i think that many people are more likely to read my work because they know something about me. The hope is that once they are reading, I then disappear and I do think that happens (except for those who know me really well ie closest friends and family).Sue Guineyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13556228394020314560noreply@blogger.com