Comments on: Six months’ worth of writing, living and learning http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/six_months/ Words about writing, singing, living and loving Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:36:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: lirone http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/six_months/#comment-1385 lirone Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:00:02 +0000 http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/?p=246#comment-1385 Thanks everyone for your supportive comments. Sorry to take a while responding - I remember typing responses to some of the comments but they seem to have vanished into the ether! 200 posts is quite a lot, I agree - but I've never forced myself to write to try to keep to a schedule. It seemed I just had 200 posts worth of things I wanted to say... and no real sign of the well running dry yet! Robin - I love your pictures and your choice of quotes is often delightful. But I would also love to hear your own words! Rick - it has surprised me, too, just how much support and inspiration there is out here in the blogosphere - like plugging into a network of creative electicity! Writing in private can be powerful, but writing in public to a sympathetic and informed audience can increase the growth opportunities to an amazing extent. Thanks everyone for your supportive comments. Sorry to take a while responding – I remember typing responses to some of the comments but they seem to have vanished into the ether!

200 posts is quite a lot, I agree – but I’ve never forced myself to write to try to keep to a schedule. It seemed I just had 200 posts worth of things I wanted to say… and no real sign of the well running dry yet!

Robin – I love your pictures and your choice of quotes is often delightful. But I would also love to hear your own words!

Rick – it has surprised me, too, just how much support and inspiration there is out here in the blogosphere – like plugging into a network of creative electicity! Writing in private can be powerful, but writing in public to a sympathetic and informed audience can increase the growth opportunities to an amazing extent.

]]> By: rick mobbs http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/six_months/#comment-1376 rick mobbs Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:05:11 +0000 http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/?p=246#comment-1376 It has been 8 months for me, 6 since I started posting the image prompts. Since I work somewhat in isolation I thought blogging might be a way to plug into a community of artists and writers. The community and feedback have been amazing. I see myself and my work in new light. The experience has been useful, affirming and valuable and has brought me out of myself. It has stimulated a lot personal growth. Very surprising, I didn't expect this. I agree with you that we need to hold our dreams lightly, allow them to change and grow as our circumstances change and we grow. Congratulations on your six months and your growth and progress. I know a lot of hard work has been taking place under the surface. It has been 8 months for me, 6 since I started posting the image prompts. Since I work somewhat in isolation I thought blogging might be a way to plug into a community of artists and writers. The community and feedback have been amazing. I see myself and my work in new light. The experience has been useful, affirming and valuable and has brought me out of myself. It has stimulated a lot personal growth. Very surprising, I didn’t expect this.

I agree with you that we need to hold our dreams lightly, allow them to change and grow as our circumstances change and we grow.

Congratulations on your six months and your growth and progress. I know a lot of hard work has been taking place under the surface.

]]> By: Becca http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/six_months/#comment-1141 Becca Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:07:35 +0000 http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/?p=246#comment-1141 This is a list worth keeping and re-reading time and again! Very well done - and numbers 2, 5, and 11, resonate particularly with me. Thanks for stopping by Write on Wednesday! It was wonderful meeting you :) This is a list worth keeping and re-reading time and again! Very well done – and numbers 2, 5, and 11, resonate particularly with me.

Thanks for stopping by Write on Wednesday!
It was wonderful meeting you :)

]]> By: Robin http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/six_months/#comment-1069 Robin Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:35:50 +0000 http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/?p=246#comment-1069 All good lessons. :) #10 and 11 stood out for me. #10 because my restlessness and dissatisfaction with my own blog may have something to do with not using my own words. Before I discovered photography, I used words. Now I'm trying to figure out a way to balance words (my own) and pictures. #11 because it may be the solution to #10. Congratulations on your 6 month blogiversary! :) All good lessons. :)

#10 and 11 stood out for me. #10 because my restlessness and dissatisfaction with my own blog may have something to do with not using my own words. Before I discovered photography, I used words. Now I’m trying to figure out a way to balance words (my own) and pictures.

#11 because it may be the solution to #10.

Congratulations on your 6 month blogiversary! :)

]]> By: whypaisley http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/six_months/#comment-1068 whypaisley Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:24:59 +0000 http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/?p=246#comment-1068 i agree whole heartedly with you on almost every point... when i started writing,, it never occurred to me that people would actually read what i was writing,, but i am ever so pleased that they are... what a gift this is,, our shared experience... it seems to me often much more real than those we have in real life,, where we remain guarded and safely behind our masks...... i agree whole heartedly with you on almost every point… when i started writing,, it never occurred to me that people would actually read what i was writing,, but i am ever so pleased that they are… what a gift this is,, our shared experience… it seems to me often much more real than those we have in real life,, where we remain guarded and safely behind our masks……

]]> By: ybonesy http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/six_months/#comment-1067 ybonesy Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:23:27 +0000 http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/?p=246#comment-1067 I love hearing about your insights. First, 200 posts in six months seems like a huge amount to me. Does it to you? Second, many of these insights truly ring a bell for me -- #s 5 and 6 I'm especially fond of. I love hearing about your insights. First, 200 posts in six months seems like a huge amount to me. Does it to you?

Second, many of these insights truly ring a bell for me — #s 5 and 6 I’m especially fond of.

]]> By: Brian http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/six_months/#comment-1063 Brian Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:19:03 +0000 http://wordsthatsing.wordpress.com/?p=246#comment-1063 #9 stands out to me because that was the first lesson I learned when I started blogging. There are so many stories I've read that have opened my heart in ways I didn't think were possible. #9 stands out to me because that was the first lesson I learned when I started blogging. There are so many stories I’ve read that have opened my heart in ways I didn’t think were possible.

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