Saturday, December 11, 2010
Lazy writers; avid readers
Maybe this describes you too. I am a "someday" writer with lots of ideas but no stamina for actual production. Oh, I know I have lots of excuses. Today I graded College Prep English "How to..." papers that were supposed to include cultural revelations, 7th & 8th grade Reading papers from Sign of the Beaver using constructed response, and Leadership papers on ideas for giving speeches to 6th graders....it was a looooong afternoon. Sigh. Oh, and I wrote a VIP letter of recommendation for college application. So, yeah, I am busy, but I am always busy, so I think I have to rename busy and just call it not so interested in writing. In my head I am going to be a published writer someday, but in reality I'm not working very hard to get there. Somehow, that doesn't bum me out nearly as much as it should. I'm content with someday. It is kind of like the thought of a lovely dessert at the end of a great meal. I'm just working through it.....
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I started to express my hope that you would get your just dessert, but then realized that that sounded more like a threat.
Actually, I was glad to see that you had started writing again, even though you can see that I didn't catch on for quite a while.
Linne, your words are interesting and entertaining, and you have a fascinating and descriptive self-awareness, albeit in a somewhat sporadic and haphazard manner.
Truthfully, I don't find your writing boring, and do do find it worth reading.
Here's to hoping you'll write more, whether your get your just dessert or not.
Kim
It occurs to me that perhaps an even more neglected area than blogs are the comments to blogs.
I am guessing that there probably won't be too many other responses, and that in fact, I will probably be the only one to respond.
Hopefully, that won't be the case.
Kim
I think I have found a way to insure that there will be more than one response to your blog in the hopes of having some sort of discussion as a result of your writing -- and typical of being a teacher, if you want something done, you usually need to be the one to do it.
Soooooooooo, all right, I will be the one to do it.
Sooooooooo, yes, I agree with Kim that Linne should write more and there her unique style is entertaining and thought provoking.
However, I am not sure that I agree that Linne is haphazard and sporadic in your style, but as she says, is often busy.
Kim 2
Whoa, wait a minute, I think I have to step in and say that I tend to agree with Kim 1 more than with Kim 2 in terms of Linne being busy.
As she herself says, one can always have things to do and find reasons not to write. If she truly aspires to be a published author, somehow she is going to have to find or make the time to write.
Just my thoughts,
Kim 3
Well, I am not trying to be critical of Linne when I referred to her writing as haphazard and sporadic, but rather am suggesting that that is part of the freshness of her words -- that they are not tied down to being thorough, but that there is a freshness of speaking in the moment.
I suspect that even she would agree that her writing is to some degree "of the momeent" and that if she were to try to write about the same thing a day later, that her blog might well have diverted into some completely other direction and arrival point.
I did not intend for my comment to be seen as negative.
Kim 1
Kim 1,
Well, yes, I see your point, but also, I think you can see that without the further explanation, how it looked like your comments sounded critical of my friend Linne, and naturally, I felt the need to come to her defense.
Kim 2
Kim 2,
I understand and I find it admirable, that you wanted to defend your friend.
But having known Linne for some time, I have to say that I have great confidence in her strengths and abilities to stand up for herself, and I don't really think she needs someone to come running to her defense.
In fact, I am hopefully and somewhat confident, that she saw my comments in the manner they were intended without even having to read my futher clarification.
Kim 1
GUYS, GUYS, Guys, (well, I am assuming that both of you are guys, even though you have a girl's name even -- unlike me, who was named after Rudyard Kipling's book: Kim, since my dad grew up in India as a missionary kid.
Anyway, did it even occur to you that Linne might not even read these comments? After all, as Kim 1 suggested, comments to blogs are the one thing that probably get read even less than blogs.
Kim 3
Oh, well, I guess we'll just have to see.
Kim 2
P.S. And yes, I am male too.
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