Thursday, January 19, 2012

Oh, wow. Okay.

For the first time since its publication, I read I'm Stalking Jake! cover to cover this week.

I am extremely proud of the end product.  I'm proud of the work that I did with Jake Watch, and remain astonished at my luck in finding such a productive and complementary partner in Susie (britpopbaby).

And yet I also now understand why so many people have commented to me on the "honesty" of the book as a whole.  As I wrote it, I was concerned I may come off as too sanctimonious.  I see now that those fears were ungrounded; I did a remarkable job of leaving my character flaws prominently in place.

It made me laugh, it made me clench up in rage...it was surreal to acknowledge that the story that I was reading was the story of my own life.  And not only that, but the story of my life as written by me.  That being the case, I can't quite explain how it was that I stayed up past my bedtime three nights in a row because I was dying to know "what happened next."

Jake Watch wasn't just a blog.  It was an adventure.  And it was a work of art - living and breathing art - that swept me and so many other people up in its wake.  I comment at one point toward the end of the book that there was nothing like it on the internet.  And there wasn't; there still isn't, and I doubt there ever will be.

If you haven't yet read the book, I strongly encourage you to do so.  An endorsement from the author may seem like a conflict of interest, but I wrote the damn thing and I hadn't read it yet, either.   Not really.  Not from the perspective of a reader, rather than a writer.

And now that I have, the only thing that I can say is that I am so incredibly glad that I wrote it.  Wow.  What a ride...

66 comments:

Sam January 19, 2012 at 4:30 PM  

I think everyone should read it too... now.

Miffed67 January 19, 2012 at 6:32 PM  

Damn skippy! Job well done! Very well done, indeed!

Becky Heineke January 20, 2012 at 12:52 PM  

(I'm just going to do a whole series of comments that are nothing more than emoticons. ;D)

Malin,  January 24, 2012 at 2:44 PM  

I am too, very glad you wrote it!

solis,  January 25, 2012 at 4:24 PM  

You did a fantastic job, and I think everyone should read this masterpiece.

I know, I already said it: I´m so grateful you wrote it.

Thanks again, Becky! For letting us be a part of your life!

BeautifulMess74 January 28, 2012 at 10:40 PM  

You should be proud, Becky. The blogs are amazing, I've told you how damn funny I think they are. It's some of the best stuff I've ever read anywhere. I don't post often, but I hope you know that I am a huge fan.

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Becky Heineke January 30, 2012 at 5:29 PM  

Thank you so much for all the kind comments. I keep not replying because I keep not knowing what to say. I'm just so happy that something I loved creating and writing about turned into something you all loved to read. :) Thank you!!

Becca,  February 10, 2012 at 4:35 PM  

Check out this Jake Gyllanhaal look-alike! He's in a YouTube movie that kind of abit Fight Club and abit Inception. His HOT!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbwDe8ogdbQ

Anonymous,  February 27, 2012 at 2:15 AM  

question.... if I'm going to nyc and i really really want to meet jake.... where do you think the best place to find him at would be so that i can meet him?

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VC March 20, 2014 at 5:48 AM  

Hey Becky, I know this is really, really, really late in the game but I just wanted to say that I love your writing. The fact that you were able to publish a book about this type of thing has really inspired me as well. In fact, it was part of the reason I started blogging again after about 10 years of believing that I shouldn't blog again. :)

I'm a little Jake crazy, of course, and so I'm going to do a stack of movie reviews about Jake's backlog of movies. (I mean, who *wouldn't* want to read a bunch of reviews about films that they don't quite remember or never knew existed in the first place? I'm going to create that blog right now, to target that non-existent market. ;)

Love your sense of humour, too.

Greetings from Australia,
VC.

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