tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416781.post5349115867049396754..comments2023-12-03T09:52:05.145-08:00Comments on Diary of a Bad Housewife: Why Do I Do This To Myself?Alice Baghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12697810636017503496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416781.post-7372372078641480072009-02-27T21:36:00.000-08:002009-02-27T21:36:00.000-08:00Look at it this way, Alice, you write better than ...Look at it this way, Alice, you write better than Stephen King. Yeah, yeah, I know, but still, you don't see him going around apologizing for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416781.post-8524772958428334602009-02-17T20:18:00.000-08:002009-02-17T20:18:00.000-08:00i too plan to read from the beginning. it's easy e...i too plan to read from the beginning. it's easy enough to "read backwards"on blogs.<BR/><BR/>i was friends w/ belinda and 'lorna' in high school, and i am very familiar w/ the places you write about, and the antics of trying to meet someone famous (like you w/ elton).<BR/><BR/>i'm really enjoying both of your blogs!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688034026370731621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416781.post-63279552334101719772009-02-01T06:13:00.000-08:002009-02-01T06:13:00.000-08:00Haha, that is so true!! I try to write everyday (o...Haha, that is so true!! I try to write everyday (or very nearly) to be in the habit of it, to "train" my brain that it's writing time, to articulate feelings while they're happening-but I very much enjoy writing :) I am a firm believer that ritual and schedule are every bit as important as flake-time. Nothing proves that more than any home project; dreaded and a big pain, but if not kept on track will simply annoy the bejezzis out of home occupants until it's finished. And that explains why you're getting a story further towards completion, and I have 100 or so unfinished projects in the closet that is doubtful I'll find the head space to get back into!!! Hee hee ;) <BR/>Good luck sticking with it then, and ROCK HARD!Loves Pickleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09265109812385130053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416781.post-91150883199928388462009-01-31T08:34:00.000-08:002009-01-31T08:34:00.000-08:00Dear Loves Pickles,Thank you for your kind comment...Dear Loves Pickles,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your kind comments and for encouraging me to take the occasional day off. It may seem strange that despite the fact that I've been blogging since 2005, I don't really find the process intrinsically enjoyable. I do it because I feel better after I write something that accurately captures what I'm feeling or thinking. If I let myself write only when I felt like it, I would probably only write once or twice a month. I'd much rather write a song or sew or paint. It's taken me a long time to figure out that discipline is every bit as important as talent, lacking in the latter I have to rely heavily on the former. Besides...I want to get this story finished while I have the momentum going and the photo albums scattered all over the bedroom floor. If I stop, it might be too hard to start again!<BR/><BR/><BR/>XO,<BR/>AliceAlice Baghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12697810636017503496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416781.post-45128250448609920152009-01-31T08:21:00.000-08:002009-01-31T08:21:00.000-08:00Editor's note to Alice: Permission to veg out and ...Editor's note to Alice: Permission to veg out and play on Myspace is NOT granted. You have an assignment to complete this novel and I have to keep you on task. No wimping out!<BR/>XOXO,<BR/>GVAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416781.post-87303384973761869962009-01-31T07:54:00.000-08:002009-01-31T07:54:00.000-08:00Hello Alice :) I've read your blog for a couple of...Hello Alice :) <BR/>I've read your blog for a couple of years now, and absolutely delight in your writing style and skill. I adore blog-reading, and as much as I crave new material from all of the blogs I read, I find that if someone is writing out of pressure to please or entertain their readers instead of from that gutteral place that drives a writers hand, it IS work, and it becomes less than what was perhaps intended. I feel that kind of pressure when I'm working on my projects sometimes, and if I'm trying to force it, then nothing works and it doesn't seem as enjoyable at all. But if I just let myself "go with the flow", let the mood guide me, it seems to be a much better thing, it seems to feed my soul instead of deplete it. Sometimes, unfortunately, that means that I don't pick up a project for months, but that's my own challenge that I continually try to work through. How to fit time in for stuff that feeds me without feeling like it's a chore? Sometimes all I have the energy to do is be a zombie in front of Facebook and Myspace. But instead of making myself feel guilty for it (as I think we all do since they can be addictive), I try to think of it as filling that part of me that perhaps needs to be cyberly-social, that needs to veg out while knowing there are others out there who are feeling the same way. Yes, sometimes we all need a kick in the pants, but similarly, sometimes a thing isn't worth doing if our heart isn't truly in it. The older I get, the more often I find myself asking, "Is this filling me, or draining me?" and if it's the latter, I stop doing it for the time being. Life is too short to feel guilty or like what we're doing isn't worthwhile. <BR/>ROCK HARD :)~Loves Pickleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09265109812385130053noreply@blogger.com