tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post2390999028047210895..comments2024-03-25T05:17:05.202-05:00Comments on Writing In The Crosshairs: WHY DO YOU WRITE? Ghost H L Mencken hereRoland D. Yeomanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-84733294641049284742012-01-26T10:56:07.461-06:002012-01-26T10:56:07.461-06:00Hi Roland .. amazing post and comments - good to r...Hi Roland .. amazing post and comments - good to read .. cheers HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-90039763984208747242012-01-19T23:02:30.138-06:002012-01-19T23:02:30.138-06:00Mark :
You mean like over-analyzing a joke. It los...Mark :<br />You mean like over-analyzing a joke. It loses both fun and laughter when you do that, right?<br /><br />Angela :<br />Thanks. Sometimes the magic works. Sometimes the sparkler seems to fizzle. But like you, I am in love with words -- and they love me back. In LAST EXIT TO BABYLON, I have a crippled gardener be healed by the garden he has tended for long years in love. Over the seasons, the garden came to love him back.<br /><br />Alex :<br />I like to read my books because I have such a large canvas in my head of a sprawling supernatural war that it helps me keep the players all in mind. Besides, I get to see things my subconscious planted in my earlier books of which I was unaware but now stand out as foreshadowing of things to come. My unconscious is sneaky like that! LOL.<br /><br />Yvonne :<br />As a poet, you may like my post for tomorrow : the ghost of Emily Dickinson. <br /><br />Blog friends like you make writing immensely less lonely. <br /><br />I pray that soon you will become published. Thanks, Roland<br /><br />Ann :<br />Right. Like sharks, we must keep on writing, swimming through the ocean of prose or die -- at least inside! Have a beautiful weekend, RolandRoland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-23479047163691476132012-01-19T20:40:16.744-06:002012-01-19T20:40:16.744-06:00Writing is like breathing! It just has to be done ...Writing is like breathing! It just has to be done to survive.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07524878248746427258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-63312048448489948002012-01-19T20:23:52.056-06:002012-01-19T20:23:52.056-06:00I love your ghost series.
When I started writing...I love your ghost series. <br /><br />When I started writing, it was such a release for the voices and thoughts tumbling around in my head. All these memories come bumbling to the surface when I engage the page. <br /><br />Writing is a lonely profession, but I don't mind it. I think I thrive in it.<br /><br />My ultimate goal is to be published.Yvonne Osbornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18212188414972694795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-85756113351553079022012-01-19T19:57:34.523-06:002012-01-19T19:57:34.523-06:00Really? I've never read CassaStar again, not a...Really? I've never read CassaStar again, not after the final revisions for my publisher. I'd rather remember it as I envisioned, especially as I read more and more of my friends' books and realize the simplicity of what I write.Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-29666138039935967552012-01-19T17:40:44.953-06:002012-01-19T17:40:44.953-06:00I love this post. Magic woven throughout the word...I love this post. Magic woven throughout the words.<br /><br />I write because it is my love affair with words. Sometimes they love me and give me pages upon pages of themselves to revel in, pouring through my fingers with a lover's passion. Other times, not so much. But that is the give and take of such love.Angela Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03324366495151363782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-43144528327002377412012-01-19T16:14:52.479-06:002012-01-19T16:14:52.479-06:00Lol, great quotes! I suppose writing is just somet...Lol, great quotes! I suppose writing is just something we do...best not to dwell on it too much;)Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793077012143289985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-14741727094735834582012-01-19T12:39:37.677-06:002012-01-19T12:39:37.677-06:00Helena :
I started writing in elementary school as...Helena :<br />I started writing in elementary school as well. Smokers smoke because they are addicted -- no fun there that I can see! LOL. As for drinking ... I get into enough trouble sober! Yes, in the world of prose we can explore and muse "what if?" Now, that IS fun. Thanks for visiting and staying to chat! Roland<br /><br />Michael :<br />Some words escape me that shouldn't, especially when I whack my knee on a door facing! I'm you agree that we bloggers hold on to one another in the cyber-void, helping each of us feel not quite so alone and keeping our head above the waters of rejection. <br /><br />May you have great luck and better times at that New York conference, Roland<br /><br />Alex :<br />The adventures come to life for me on the page. Is it silly? But I read my own books sometimes!<br /><br />Eric :<br />Thomas Paine would agree with you. Like you, I feel the magic is brushed, combed, washed, and regimented right out of us by the school system -- but not in my classroom. Still I was but one teacher.<br /><br />In my GHOST WRITERS IN THE SKY, I have the ghost of Bruce Lee urge new writers to be strangers in their own lives, to see life anew as a child or a stranger might see it. Thanks for giving such an evocative, reflective comment, RolandRoland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-25111729858817504272012-01-19T09:29:46.270-06:002012-01-19T09:29:46.270-06:00I'll comment specifically on the education pie...I'll comment specifically on the education piece: This is why I write (and blog).<br /><br />I believe creativity and artistry and genius are educated right out of us -- <i>IF</i> you rely entirely on the institutionalized education process.<br /><br />Writing, and art in general, has nothing to do with the establishment, and it has no motive of molding us into good citizens who consume and spend where we are told to consume and spend.<br /><br />Sounds a little Fight Club, but it's true. That's why every government's primary agenda is education of the citizens.<br /><br />Writers have always stood on the fringe of the institution. They hold pen against sword and often claim victory.<br /><br />Writers make it a point to see the world sideways. We are sideways thinkers.<br /><br />This, I think, is the heart of why I write. It is not so much as to attack the grain, or cut with or against the grain, but rather to sand it and stain it and <i>expose</i> the grain so that others may see the sideways glance.<br /><br />Then the reader can decide whether to cut with or against it, see.<br /><br /><br /> - EricEric W. Tranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13842968931062056407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-39416900783962130552012-01-19T09:29:40.202-06:002012-01-19T09:29:40.202-06:00Yes, blogging is a way for us to join together for...Yes, blogging is a way for us to join together for support.<br />I write to see adventures I've not already seen.<br />And because I absolutely can't dance!Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-1470095722996605532012-01-19T09:07:39.049-06:002012-01-19T09:07:39.049-06:00HI, Roland,
A new ghost. Your friendships with th...HI, Roland,<br /><br />A new ghost. Your friendships with these spirits are amazing.<br /><br />He has some great insights to why writer's write. <br /><br /><br />"That is the express reason why your blogs are so important. They are a chain of linked spirits holding on to one another through the darkness of the cyber-void."<br /><br />This is a fantastic insight... It seems words never escape you.Michael Di Gesuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17047267262428143113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-8773096277072556552012-01-19T08:34:28.229-06:002012-01-19T08:34:28.229-06:00Lovely post, as usual. Your voice is very powerful...Lovely post, as usual. Your voice is very powerful.<br />I write, in spite of rejections, because I always have found it to be a release. I wrote my 1st story in elementary, as therapeutic escape, and I find still today it is relaxing. I don't smoke or drink or anything fun like that, so I guess writing is not a bad vice to have. :)Helena Carlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16857055504285215017noreply@blogger.com