Comments on: This is my last entry http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/ ... the online home of a librarian in Perth, Western Australia Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:36:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: CW http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1005 CW Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:57:51 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1005 Hi JL, I completely relate! Blogging has helped me overcome the Fear of Starting, a bit. But yes, I definitely have to work hard at it - maybe not so much when blogging, because there's less pressure there, but definitely in other writing.<br/><br/>Cherry, no, not jesting here. <br/>:)<br/><br/>Hi Mooiness, I guess the writer's point was that she wanted to write a novel but the blogging was taking her away from it. And I suppose if you have only so many hours a day to devote to writing (your novel), and you're spending a good proportion of your time blogging instead, that does have an impact.<br/><br/>Oh, and I don't love writing. I've always found it difficult - especially when writing for an audience, even an audience of one (eg assignments), but blogging has broken through that fear/dislike threshold for me. So now I'm beginning to be able to say that I <i>like</i> writing. Kind of.<br/><br/>Hello Iris, blogging as therapy? Yes, I can relate to that :) Here's to the journey! Hi JL, I completely relate! Blogging has helped me overcome the Fear of Starting, a bit. But yes, I definitely have to work hard at it - maybe not so much when blogging, because there’s less pressure there, but definitely in other writing.

Cherry, no, not jesting here.
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Hi Mooiness, I guess the writer’s point was that she wanted to write a novel but the blogging was taking her away from it. And I suppose if you have only so many hours a day to devote to writing (your novel), and you’re spending a good proportion of your time blogging instead, that does have an impact.

Oh, and I don’t love writing. I’ve always found it difficult - especially when writing for an audience, even an audience of one (eg assignments), but blogging has broken through that fear/dislike threshold for me. So now I’m beginning to be able to say that I like writing. Kind of.

Hello Iris, blogging as therapy? Yes, I can relate to that :) Here’s to the journey!

]]> By: Iris http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1004 Iris Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:15:35 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1004 I know just what you mean about the fear of writing thing. It's kind of ironic, but I've always loved writing. I've just always hating having to show that writing to ANYONE. (I know why, too, but it's a long story including allergy-induced near-dyslexia that was unresolved until I was in college.) <br/><br/>Spell check as gone a long way towards liberating me, and my blog has done another huge chunk of my therapy. :) I know just what you mean about the fear of writing thing. It’s kind of ironic, but I’ve always loved writing. I’ve just always hating having to show that writing to ANYONE. (I know why, too, but it’s a long story including allergy-induced near-dyslexia that was unresolved until I was in college.)

Spell check as gone a long way towards liberating me, and my blog has done another huge chunk of my therapy. :)

]]> By: mooiness http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1003 mooiness Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:33:34 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1003 Actually that's kinda ironic - if the writer could come up with 5 blog entries, there's no conceivable reason why she then couldn't have come up with 1 decent paragraph of prose.<br/><br/>I don't buy her argument. If anything, I believe that blogging brings out the writer in the person and not hide it.<br/><br/>And I concur with Cherry: fear of writing? Heh. How can you fear it if you love it? ;) Actually that’s kinda ironic - if the writer could come up with 5 blog entries, there’s no conceivable reason why she then couldn’t have come up with 1 decent paragraph of prose.

I don’t buy her argument. If anything, I believe that blogging brings out the writer in the person and not hide it.

And I concur with Cherry: fear of writing? Heh. How can you fear it if you love it? ;)

]]> By: cherryripe http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1002 cherryripe Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:56:51 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1002 Fear Of Writing? Surely you jest. Fear Of Writing? Surely you jest.

]]> By: JL http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1001 JL Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:13:37 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2006/04/24/this-is-my-last-entry/#comment-1001 I have come to realise that my ability to write is often about the ability to START to write. Only when one starts can one rewrite, and rewrite some more to get things right. This is pretty darn obvious but the hardest part for me is overcoming procrastination paralysis plus convincing myself the writing process is not as painful as I think. I am, admittedly, not a natural born writer who creates beautiful prose once she starts writing. Neither am I a good storyteller. Yet, I refuse to let myself be bad at what I do for a living. And so I have to work hard at it. That is my pain. Sigh! I have come to realise that my ability to write is often about the ability to START to write. Only when one starts can one rewrite, and rewrite some more to get things right. This is pretty darn obvious but the hardest part for me is overcoming procrastination paralysis plus convincing myself the writing process is not as painful as I think. I am, admittedly, not a natural born writer who creates beautiful prose once she starts writing. Neither am I a good storyteller. Yet, I refuse to let myself be bad at what I do for a living. And so I have to work hard at it. That is my pain. Sigh!

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