Comments on: National Blog Posting Month, Day 21

By: saraarts

saraarts — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:48:00 +0000

I maintain that whether or not blogging is an art form depends on who's doing it.

People just don't realize that art is actually work. Blogging practice, like a diary, is part of the work, and sometimes it is also the work product.

I think you do a great job, and I love your shoes.

And Cookie. I love Cookie. I wouldn't ever choose not to have seen those pictures of her being "molested" by Alice and then by you. Those were beautiful.

By: Mauigirl

Mauigirl — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:20:00 +0000

I think the pottery class thing is right. I usually only blog when I feel inspired or aggravated enough to write about something. But sometimes I do feel that way but don’t get around to blogging about it. With NaBloPoMo I have to do it every day and I’ve been surprised how many topics I’ve managed to come up with.

By: Tania Rochelle

Tania Rochelle — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:35:00 +0000

Your blog is the reason I started blogging. I’d post ten times a day if I didn’t have to work and take care of my kids.

By: BipolarLawyerCook

BipolarLawyerCook — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:59:00 +0000

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I’m thankful you keep going even on the days when you feel your post is crap.

By: amy

amy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:26:00 +0000

“whatever it is you love doing so much that sometimes you hate it.”

couldn’t have put it better.

By: tuckova

tuckova — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:48:00 +0000

In a poetry class, the professor declared that he determined grades by throwing our portfolios down the stairs at the end of the year, and whichever hit the bottom got an A. I thought he was kidding, but he said the only way he could teach us (& the only way we could teach ourselves) to improve was if we created enough that we could see the strengths and weaknesses. So, the portfolios with the most volume went the furthest down the stairs and up in the grade book. I think he had a point.

By: Suzy

Suzy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:56:00 +0000

Great post and beautifully written, as always. Since I've been in the arts my whole life, I really didn't think blogging would kick my ass but it does. So one day about a month after I started, I began printing out each day I posted and put them in a binder by months.

When I filled one year's worth, I started flipping through the pages and it made me realize that they weren't all gold, but I certainly wasn't embarrassed that I'd done so much writing. It also made me regret that I didn't take the last 24 years I've been a standup and work on jokes that religiously. (although jokes are harder to write than a blog)

And yes, writing is art. And like all art, some sucks and some is brilliant.

By: superblondgirl

superblondgirl — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:50:00 +0000

That whole pottery thing just made me feel a whole lot better about the last few really shitty posts I put up on my blog. Obviously there is some gold in there somewhere. If you maybe have a shovel or something.
Also I want the typed it wrong shirt. Ahem, husband? Shirt? Xmas? YES.

By: LaLa

LaLa — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:33:00 +0000

I've never posted to you before, but I've been reading you for at least a year.

Even when you have *nothing* to say, you are still interesting.

You don't whine, you don't talk only about yourself, and you have a lovely off-kilter style that I identify with so much.

(oh, and that story you wrote about your beat-up black oxfords and the roommate - starkly beautiful. I read it to my Dh and he now kind of gets why I'm on the computer so much. It takes a whole lot of slogging through the dross to find a diamond, but you're definitely one of the few blogs out there that are tops in my book for quirky and deep - sometimes both at the same time.)

Now off to figure out how to leave a hint to my hubby about the Fussy t-shirt for Christmas...

By: amy turn sharp of doobleh-vay

amy turn sharp of doobleh-vay — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:01:00 +0000

This sums up this whole nablopomo thing for me- and even perhaps this whole blogging thing…It has become daily practice for me to take a bit of time to myself and reflect and slow down and write. Just write. This blog has become many things, but mostly discipline and freedom. I said my thanksgiving thank you to the blogosphere for giving me my voice back and that so very includes you….
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