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i think your words reach more than you think.
It also depends on whether the reader (or listener) is ready to receive that lesson you may have to impart. Not everybody is ready at the same time. And most, I think, are never ready at all. Your words always reach me, Julia.
posted by
SilverMoon7
on January 24, 2007 at 10:46 AM
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Julia
There is much truth here. Thanks.
posted by
avant-garde
on January 24, 2007 at 2:42 AM
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J,
I "get" you and your words touch my heart quite often.
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 24, 2007 at 1:06 AM
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I know I will be the odd one out and I don't care
I don't enjoy florid prose like that you have quoted here. I want to take a hacksaw to it. ;-) Indeed, if I gave time to reading that kind of writing, I'd have no time to write.
I have come back around to writing what I know after trying to do otherwise.
posted by
Azur
on January 23, 2007 at 10:31 PM
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It is a matter of perspective
For you are a Buddha reclining on your cushioned, meditation mat, contemplating the mountains in our minds.
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on January 23, 2007 at 8:26 PM
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You are too hard on yourself you beautiful literary person
My suggestion would be to add a yak or donkey in your Tibetan dream wanderings. Your'e so good with animals.
posted by
Kabu
on January 23, 2007 at 3:59 PM
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Julia
Buy your words have reached many of our hearts.
posted by
Presley
on January 23, 2007 at 1:55 PM
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I think you're being much to hard on yourself
and should just express. Others may have experience but the pace of their words is more akin to a goods train in comparison.
posted by
malcolm
on January 23, 2007 at 1:19 PM
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You may not have been to Tibet, but you know what it is to dream of
being there, you know what it looks like from where you are, you know how you feel about things Tibetan... (Back in college, in a class in anthropological linguistics, we had a Tibetan informant named Dorje... I still feel pretty good and a bit wistful, remembering Dorje...)
And it's true enough, anyone who is not going in a similar direction is not going to make much of the signposts you plant along the way.
posted by
Ciel
on January 23, 2007 at 1:07 PM
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everything is original, everything has already been done
Once you learn to say what you want, instead of what you think the reader wants to read, you'll say things that people will hear from the inside out.
posted by
Whysper
on January 23, 2007 at 12:40 PM
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Well, I know a fairly good children's show clown who made a decent program with just her and her Big Comfy Couch...
posted by
Jenasis
on January 23, 2007 at 11:41 AM
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oh and it's "funny" ariel should comment...
on these... Sorry... but I write what I think! I pause. The writing pauses.
posted by
FactorFiction
on January 23, 2007 at 10:59 AM
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Julia.
Regardless of the subject matter or the genre, in order for a writer to be the most effective, he/she must find something the reader can identify with. The most profound truths will remain unnoticed if readers don't believe it directly applies to them. A writer must not be or find the perfect
everyman, but he/she should definitely mine the endless vein of humanity, the emotional things we all share regardless of differing perspectives. Philosophically speaking, I'm more apt to listen to a sincere tale of personal experience with some sort or moral to the story than a generic, one-size-fits-all sermon from the mount.
posted by
Talion
on January 23, 2007 at 10:58 AM
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So,
the wise man sayeth, "Writeth what you knoweth?"
Well, I _had_ to say it...sorry...
posted by
FactorFiction
on January 23, 2007 at 10:57 AM
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Julia again
BTW, I really do wish that you, and everyone else would eschew this ridiculous habit of substituting *....* for "...." What's the point, pray?
It sucks. Big time. Heavy duty. seriously. ponderously. calamitously. So there!
I'll go and have a good sulk now. Probably kick the ginger tom on the way.
posted by
ariel70
on January 23, 2007 at 10:57 AM
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Julia
Tut, tut, my dear, we aren't all like that you know. Your words do reach out to this one at least.
So, not to put to fine a point on it ; get up off your butt, write about them there Tibetan mountains an' anything else you fancy.
I'll be keeping an eye on you, Miss Julia, and I do not tolerate slacking!
posted by
ariel70
on January 23, 2007 at 10:50 AM
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