tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446697887150937085.post5952577568029340173..comments2023-10-29T04:23:33.211-04:00Comments on maryanne stahl at her mac: why?Maryanne Stahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12461617567840191096noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446697887150937085.post-11366673256145885402007-08-24T10:18:00.000-04:002007-08-24T10:18:00.000-04:00LOLoh Jim. maybe it's something in the water in GA...LOL<BR/><BR/>oh Jim. maybe it's something in the water in GA?Maryanne Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12461617567840191096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446697887150937085.post-8078813000818941072007-07-22T17:46:00.000-04:002007-07-22T17:46:00.000-04:00As you can see by the "comment deleted" entry, I e...As you can see by the "comment deleted" entry, I even revise my blog comments. I'm hopeless.<BR/><BR/>;-)James Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08585503137697939756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446697887150937085.post-8469232166989197442007-07-22T17:43:00.000-04:002007-07-22T17:43:00.000-04:00We "meet" again!Sheesh, I hear you in a big way. I...We "meet" again!<BR/><BR/>Sheesh, I hear you in a big way. I've been working on the same sixth chapter for the past year. I'm meticulous, and if I want to get this damned novel finished that's not the way to do it. <BR/><BR/>I revise obsessively despite telling myself that I need to just get it all out there, then go back and fix the shitty draft.<BR/><BR/>I recently bought a digital voice recorder to catch scenes, dialogue, ideas, whatever, on my way to work. It seems to help somewhat, but I feel i'm dictating. Perhaps that's what it takes, too. Well, you know better than I do how to write novels.James Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08585503137697939756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446697887150937085.post-78860780111763118762007-07-22T17:41:00.000-04:002007-07-22T17:41:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.James Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08585503137697939756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446697887150937085.post-36085676493492536302007-07-20T18:06:00.000-04:002007-07-20T18:06:00.000-04:00you're a gem, gary, thank you.more later. hope yo...you're a gem, gary, thank you.<BR/><BR/>more later. hope you are well. xxxMaryanne Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12461617567840191096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446697887150937085.post-79914531234176194802007-07-20T16:37:00.000-04:002007-07-20T16:37:00.000-04:00I'm sorry that you're feeling so frustrated. I've ...I'm sorry that you're feeling so frustrated. I've been in a dry patch of even longer duration than yours, so I can relate to how vast, arid, and unfriendly they are when something in you urges you to write, but what comes out of your fingers is dust. <BR/><BR/>Maybe try writing a passage as if it's a poem, then strip out the line breaks and see what's left? I've found that I use words in far more creative ways when I tell myself to write a poem (or song) instead of prose, even when I know that I will eventually make prose from it. <BR/><BR/>I think that technical writing might have ruined me for writing prose fiction. And of course the strategy above would fail me absurdly when I'm writing software documentation. 'Click this' and 'select that' doesn't exactly lend itself to poetry.<BR/><BR/>Take the deepest breath that you can muster, give yourself a lovely present for having tried so hard, and then try again, harder. Everyone who knows you is calm in the comfort of knowing you will prevail over this one way or anotherHuh?https://www.blogger.com/profile/13529631469169358749noreply@blogger.com