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I believe you about the small mindedness and petty power games! When you need the world, it makes you pay a heavy price that! Hope you navigate your way successfully!! Thanks for the comments you left on my blog!

posted by Soul_Builder101 on February 22, 2008 at 7:38 PM | link to this | reply

Azur

Just accept that truthful comment my friend, because I KNOW you to be a very talented writer and I still thank you in my thoughts for what you advised me with in a serious write up for my Hydro One problem.

Now, hopefully I will be writing you soon about that entiere mess because I got Veteran's Affairs involved over a year ago and today they called me, I think I am to appear before a tribunal soon but I will only know on Monday.

You can be sure I'll let you know how it all ends my friend. Again, I thank you for your wonderful talent and ask you to bask in the comment that person made to you about your skills.

posted by WileyJohn on February 22, 2008 at 7:01 PM | link to this | reply

just believe dear azur..........

posted by __Purple_Mermaid11__ on February 22, 2008 at 2:05 AM | link to this | reply

You're a great writer

Your stories are entertaining, expressive, and always an enjoyable read!

It's okay to doubt yourself, to a point. We are our own worst critics most of the time. Partially because we expect more from ourselves than others do, and partially because it's hard to be objective about your own work. But there's a fine line between healthy criticism and outright denial of obvious talent. 

Embrace the roughness of the first draft. Learn from it, polish it, and keep going. Accept the fact that it won't ever be perfect, and that greatness is not equal to perfection.

And smile, 'cause you rock!  

posted by Sira890 on February 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM | link to this | reply

Stop it, Azur! Don't bow your head and be humble in the face of

appreciation. Lift that chin, strut when you walk, know you are not just good, but damn good!

How many really excellent musicians are playing in bar bands and working a day job? How many high school ball players who draw a crowd when they're in the game never got to the pros?  How many excellent writers get rejections by the dozen before they ever sell a thing, and how many work their magic even if they never have "best selling author" after their name?  It's not the money - it's the joy of creating, the art for its own sake.

Oh, and how many even know there's a mask?

posted by Pat_B on February 21, 2008 at 7:41 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Azur, I painted three paintings this week. Two are well worth any money

Benzinha, I'd put money on the fact that the third one is, while below, your best, still worthy of sale. I often feel that too about my writing, particularly the bread and butter stuff. I felt that the other day and then the editor emailed to compliment me.

Part of the reason people think we are good is simply because we have rapport and are the kind of people it's nice to work with.

So, as you say to me never stop, there is always a new day.

posted by Azur on February 20, 2008 at 8:15 PM | link to this | reply

I wonder if you are a Capricorn... maybe a Virgo?

I say this because you sometimes seem to be skeptical and analytical when complemented.  I'm a Capricorn, so I'm the same way.  If someone says I can walk on water I'm thinking it's a clever way of saying I can't swim.

Confidence leads to competence.  And vice versa. I like reading your posts, because I like getting inside the head of a grown up.  A professional.  I'm self-conscious giving you advice because of this, but, believe me - you are good.  If that means anything to you, good.

It's the truth.

posted by CunningLinguist on February 20, 2008 at 2:00 PM | link to this | reply

Azur, I painted three paintings this week. Two are well worth any money

spent on them and one is not. I shall try to sell it as my output is so low. It is not horrible, but not good, either. So, we all have days like that.....I painted over three canvases last week, just too horrible to leave the house. Sigh. Too ill to make money anotherr way, this week.

You are a good writer and she probably read your stuff, tho' she didn't see you in person and work with you as a writer. Or, she remembers just one day when you wrote something near her and she saw the ease and competence in it......

I said something to my son, the one with the new baby, something about disciplining his son. He told me to never say anything like that around his wife or I would never be given care of the grandson. It will never happen anyway, I told him.

The one time in the boy's life that I had alone time with him, I walked him out Mom's back door and into her semi-domesticated desert. My DIL sent my son RUNNING after me about six minutes later, when they noticed us gone....the boy still lived, amazing, no?? I was so disappointed and hurt by them, not the first time....they made Mom and I cry on our visit to their home in Ohio, re our great and grandson.

So, some people see one as incompetent and even dangerous and I would rather be seen as you are, competent and reliable.

posted by benzinha on February 20, 2008 at 12:51 PM | link to this | reply

Checking in to see how you are, Azur....

...but dammit...you are a great writer!  Sometimes I think I can write...lately I'm ready to give it all up.  Don't you give up though..and somehow I don't think you will.  The challenges make us strong..so they say..but I sense you are strong and you will overcome....you will. 

posted by ginnieb on February 20, 2008 at 10:15 AM | link to this | reply

You have said it, now only believe.  sam

posted by sam444 on February 20, 2008 at 10:08 AM | link to this | reply