tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322097819850058517.post5619774697908592418..comments2023-06-12T04:32:03.116-07:00Comments on Pictures/Thoughts: The Entrepreneurial Spirit and Feeling a Sense of ContentmentRebbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117210892683574784noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322097819850058517.post-40012260263923829462012-09-03T18:33:55.114-07:002012-09-03T18:33:55.114-07:00Thanks, ZACL, Your words are comforting and a grea...Thanks, ZACL, Your words are comforting and a great reminder. I have this tendency to over think and over process. Can't help it sometimes. <br /><br />"Che sera, sera"--Yes! Perfect words.Rebbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08117210892683574784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322097819850058517.post-83701944755866474582012-09-03T15:42:02.281-07:002012-09-03T15:42:02.281-07:00Good luck with your enterprises Rebb.
Che sera, s...Good luck with your enterprises Rebb.<br /><br />Che sera, sera. <br /><br />There is a time for introspection and a time for circumspection. There is a time for moving forward and moving on. There is a time for letting it happen. There is a time for everything in its own time, even if, sometimes, it feels like other people's time too. It may well be, but, remember, if it is for you, it is your time as well. ZACLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322097819850058517.post-84706119456186204382012-08-29T09:59:58.988-07:002012-08-29T09:59:58.988-07:00It will be great if I get the job, Vincent! It’s a...It will be great if I get the job, Vincent! It’s a bookkeeping position and that’s all they do for other companies. I explained to them that I was not a “full-charge” bookkeeper and that I currently do light bookkeeping, but would like to do more because it’s what I like. I enjoy keeping track of the records up until you hand the information over to the accountant. <br /><br />I think being busy will enhance my writing relationship. I do recall when I worked full-time and was taking classes; it seemed to be a good creative writing period—more free. I think sometimes having too much time on our hands can have its disadvantages. It was a choice with reasons in between. Now my choices are changing—or at least I hope so—depending on present outcomes, etc.<br /><br />I do still think about publishing, but not as much as I did before. The process of writing and sharing with a group for critique is what is fun. It’s fun to hear the good and the bad, to hear what everyone has to say about all of our work. I would love to see any of the other members publish their work, and I try my best to give constructive feedback, to point out parts that do and don’t work for me as a reader. It can be so subjective, but the writer then takes what he or she wants and tosses out the rest. <br /><br />This last time I had submitted my travel piece with edits, but I hadn’t changed it to fiction, but I feel that I found the larger truth of the piece. It was well received. One of the members had the same comment as you: To make it into fiction. She added: to let the characters go and be wild. I still have to think on this because I’m not yet able to step away from the reality of it. I’m not yet able or ready to take my reality and make it fiction, at least not in this travel piece. <br /><br />I’ve thought more about the art of writing too. For me, what has really begun to propel me to think of this in more detail is an audio book I’m listening to—I mentioned it in a previous blog: Stein on Writing – Sol Stein. It’s helping me reflect on the writing in the group, as well as my own, but mostly the group and how some of the points mentioned apply. It’s also moving me to read books differently. In fact one book I was enjoying called The Painted Drum stopped me in my tracks when I arrived at part 2, about 100 pages into the book. The POV had changed and frankly it sounded like the same character from the first part of the book. I wasn’t able to believe it any longer. I want so much to find out about this drum and this is the part that gets me there. I haven’t come back to the book for several days and am in limbo on whether I am going to finish it because I’ve been taken out of the story. <br /><br />You said, “I think it will be better the less hard I try, the more I become transparent to the voice within me.” Yes, I think this is true.<br /><br />Good for you, Vincent! To chair a new writers’ group seems the perfect role for you. Whether you do it or not, it is clear that you are still able to encourage and share within the group you presently belong to. I would love to take a workshop with you as the lead!<br /><br />Those nerves are positive and I’m sure you will channel them one-way or the other, Vincent. I look forward to hearing more—as much or as little as you wish to share.<br /><br />I’m very excited for you!<br />Rebbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08117210892683574784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322097819850058517.post-75528069130679274272012-08-28T09:56:02.955-07:002012-08-28T09:56:02.955-07:00Now I find myself anxious to hear that you get the...Now I find myself anxious to hear that you get the job! As for it giving you less time to read and write, I wonder if that matters, for I reflect that during eight months in 2007, when I came out of retirement to work full-time in another town, I wrote more regularly than before or since: and more spontaneously.<br /><br />And for me the effect of the writers’ group has had the opposite effect from the one you describe. I think less about publishing my own stuff, more about helping foster the writing of others. But it has made me think more about the art of writing, and decide that actually I prefer to encourage others than push forward my own. Because it cannot be pushed. I think it will be better the less hard I try, the more i become transparent to the voice within me.<br /><br />And now I’ve had the courage to take on the role which I hastily rejected before: to possibly chair a new writers’ group, or as they view it, an ongoing Saturday workshop, at the local Arts Centre --a disused Victorian church and associated buildings. They seem to have the idea of linked groups: painting, drawing the performing arts including jazz, drumming, songwriting, scriptwriting, costumes, scenery. For adults and children, separating by age as and when necessary.<br /><br />So I said I’d be happy to take on the twin challenge of promoting writing as a means of self-expression, self-knowledge, along with writing as fulfilment of commissions defined by the Centre, e.g. pantomimes, sketches, songs for musicals.<br /><br />It’s probably too late for me to chicken out of this now, even though there are other writers there to support the project, including members of the other writing group at the library, whom I've invited along. <br /><br />Either something will happen or nothing. I don’t feel nervous about it at this stage. But I would not call it self-confidence.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com