Comments on: The creeping, creeping bar http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html a virgo's guide to the universe Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:32:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: communicatrix http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-38008 communicatrix Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:27:07 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-38008 dailytri - Thank you. It's reassuring to know that something is getting across. Maybe that's how you know that you are -- when you're not 100% sure, when you have some confusion and doubt. If I'm too confident it was all making sense, maybe that's a sign it there's some showboating going on: it's not really from the heart. Interesting. Benjamin - Amen to that. Have you *seen* my college papers? Or, hell--have you seen the early posts on this blog? Brrrr... Jeri - How nice of you to say so! Nothing makes me happier than inspiring other people to create and instigate change. Thank you. dailytri - Thank you. It’s reassuring to know that something is getting across. Maybe that’s how you know that you are — when you’re not 100% sure, when you have some confusion and doubt. If I’m too confident it was all making sense, maybe that’s a sign it there’s some showboating going on: it’s not really from the heart. Interesting.

Benjamin - Amen to that. Have you *seen* my college papers? Or, hell–have you seen the early posts on this blog? Brrrr…

Jeri - How nice of you to say so! Nothing makes me happier than inspiring other people to create and instigate change. Thank you.

]]> By: Jeri http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-38004 Jeri Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:06:01 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-38004 I’ve been hooked on your blog for the past few months and your writing always amazes me. You are the reason I started my own. Even in a “simple” blog post you make me feel what you’re feeling, whether it despair, amusement, contentment or anxiety. It doesn’t matter if we wait two days or two weeks for a blog post, they are always worth reading. I’ve been hooked on your blog for the past few months and your writing always amazes me. You are the reason I started my own. Even in a “simple” blog post you make me feel what you’re feeling, whether it despair, amusement, contentment or anxiety.
It doesn’t matter if we wait two days or two weeks for a blog post, they are always worth reading.

]]> By: Benjamin http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-38002 Benjamin Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:42:30 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-38002 Your post is a good reminder to me that writing is a skill, and like all other skills it gets better with practice. Practice means you keep doing it, and keep watching how well you are doing it. I am enjoying reading your posts! Wasn't it Woody Allen that said 80% of success is just showing up? :) Your post is a good reminder to me that writing is a skill, and like all other skills it gets better with practice. Practice means you keep doing it, and keep watching how well you are doing it. I am enjoying reading your posts!

Wasn’t it Woody Allen that said 80% of success is just showing up? :)

]]> By: dailytri http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-38001 dailytri Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:30:49 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-38001 Sometimes thoughts (whether spoken or written) don't have to be great to be meaningful. You always convey meaning, and perhaps that's what makes you so great. Sometimes thoughts (whether spoken or written) don’t have to be great to be meaningful. You always convey meaning, and perhaps that’s what makes you so great.

]]> By: communicatrix http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-38000 communicatrix Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:04:53 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-38000 annie - Somehow, I feel like one of the main reasons I've been put here is to keep people like you writing. Don't let me down, sister! claire - Thanks for the encouragement/support AND the best-of thought. It's such a simple thing, yet so helpful to readers. I'm going to schedule it in for a Saturday soon. The thought of going through 3 years of my long-ass posts makes me sleeeeeepy. Laura - Excellent advice. Excellent quote. Excellent ideas. Thanks! Ritergal - I wish you could, too! I feel like it's always time to feed the beast. But maybe esp. with my long-ass posts (cf above), it's better to give people time to rest. vahid - You lurk as much as you like, my friend. It's worth it to me whenever you come out to leave such a nice comment! annie - Somehow, I feel like one of the main reasons I’ve been put here is to keep people like you writing. Don’t let me down, sister!

claire - Thanks for the encouragement/support AND the best-of thought. It’s such a simple thing, yet so helpful to readers. I’m going to schedule it in for a Saturday soon. The thought of going through 3 years of my long-ass posts makes me sleeeeeepy.

Laura - Excellent advice. Excellent quote. Excellent ideas. Thanks!

Ritergal - I wish you could, too! I feel like it’s always time to feed the beast. But maybe esp. with my long-ass posts (cf above), it’s better to give people time to rest.

vahid - You lurk as much as you like, my friend. It’s worth it to me whenever you come out to leave such a nice comment!

]]> By: vahid http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-37998 vahid Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:54:57 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-37998 I'm glad you're going to keep showing up. I lurk far more than I comment but I absolutely love your blog. I’m glad you’re going to keep showing up. I lurk far more than I comment but I absolutely love your blog.

]]> By: Ritergal http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-37997 Ritergal Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:44:40 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-37997 I wish I could remember the URL for the comforting website I read a few days ago that flooded my troubled soul with the reassuring news that once or twice a week is an ideal pace for a blog. More than that burns out readership. This blessed balm assuaged all guilt. Twice a week? I can do that! So can you! (I never did strive for more than three.) But even before that, I had come to grips with the thing about writing *every* day. In a word, "Balderdash!" I blogged about that at http://heartandcraft.blogspot.com/2007/10/real-writing-versus-virtual.html. Not an hour passes in my life that I'm not writing, virtually, if not actually, and I feel entirely safe saying the same is true for you. So, ta-ta! (sound of tinkly chimes in background) I just sprinkled your blog with magic muse dust that makes it guilt-free forever. Now, what will you do with the rest of your angst? Blog on! I wish I could remember the URL for the comforting website I read a few days ago that flooded my troubled soul with the reassuring news that once or twice a week is an ideal pace for a blog. More than that burns out readership. This blessed balm assuaged all guilt. Twice a week? I can do that! So can you! (I never did strive for more than three.)

But even before that, I had come to grips with the thing about writing *every* day. In a word, “Balderdash!” I blogged about that at http://heartandcraft.blogspot.com/2007/10/real-writing-versus-virtual.html.

Not an hour passes in my life that I’m not writing, virtually, if not actually, and I feel entirely safe saying the same is true for you.

So, ta-ta! (sound of tinkly chimes in background) I just sprinkled your blog with magic muse dust that makes it guilt-free forever. Now, what will you do with the rest of your angst?

Blog on!

]]> By: Laura Moncur http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-37995 Laura Moncur Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:37:24 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-37995 These things go in phases or waves. You've written a few really good series. Sometimes you just need to rest. Let yourself do something else like draw, write fiction or take photos. Post them instead. Keep creating, but remember that you need "just sits" time just as much as you need productive time. "Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982) These things go in phases or waves. You’ve written a few really good series. Sometimes you just need to rest.

Let yourself do something else like draw, write fiction or take photos. Post them instead. Keep creating, but remember that you need “just sits” time just as much as you need productive time.

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.”
Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)

]]> By: claire http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-37994 claire Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:59:48 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-37994 Geez, now I feel a little guilty I haven't finished writing about my recent beach vacation yet. Such a different coastline here in the East. After a post(s) I'm really proud of, it is hard to continue sometimes, but part of that is a blog thing. I don't want to bury something good with junk. For me it helps to keep track of my fave posts on a 'best of' page linked in my sidebar. Knowing they are only a click away to anyone interested helps me keep moving forward. Geez, now I feel a little guilty I haven’t finished writing about my recent beach vacation yet. Such a different coastline here in the East.

After a post(s) I’m really proud of, it is hard to continue sometimes, but part of that is a blog thing. I don’t want to bury something good with junk. For me it helps to keep track of my fave posts on a ‘best of’ page linked in my sidebar. Knowing they are only a click away to anyone interested helps me keep moving forward.

]]> By: annie http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html/comment-page-1#comment-37993 annie Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:39:00 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/2007/10/the-creeping-creeping-bar.html#comment-37993 You keeping writing is making me think of keeping writing. Thank you. You keeping writing is making me think of keeping writing. Thank you.

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