Comments on: On Talking http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Varda (squashed mom) http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Varda (squashed mom) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:03:59 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-386 I have been thinking much along the same lines lately. The problem with being immersed in social media is that I can get so lost in the chatter and talking about, I lose all the actual doing. I often vacillate between being over-connected and isolated. Isolation is better for creativity, but not too much, as it can lead to too much inward spiraling. Balance is always best, often sought, rarely achieved. Fortunately I have my children (my own little chaos machines) to constantly push the reset button on whatever rut I've gotten too comfortable in. Now I suppose I should stop commenting on other people's blogs and actually write something on my own (<a href="http://thesquashedbologna.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://thesquashedbologna.blog...</a>). I have been thinking much along the same lines lately. The problem with being immersed in social media is that I can get so lost in the chatter and talking about, I lose all the actual doing. I often vacillate between being over-connected and isolated. Isolation is better for creativity, but not too much, as it can lead to too much inward spiraling. Balance is always best, often sought, rarely achieved. Fortunately I have my children (my own little chaos machines) to constantly push the reset button on whatever rut I've gotten too comfortable in. Now I suppose I should stop commenting on other people's blogs and actually write something on my own (http://thesquashedbologna.blog...).

]]> By: Varda (squashed mom) http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Varda (squashed mom) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:03:59 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-274 I have been thinking much along the same lines lately. The problem with being immersed in social media is that I can get so lost in the chatter and talking about, I lose all the actual doing. I often vacillate between being over-connected and isolated. Isolation is better for creativity, but not too much, as it can lead to too much inward spiraling. Balance is always best, often sought, rarely achieved. Fortunately I have my children (my own little chaos machines) to constantly push the reset button on whatever rut I've gotten too comfortable in. Now I suppose I should stop commenting on other people's blogs and actually write something on my own (<a href="http://thesquashedbologna.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://thesquashedbologna.blogspot.com</a>). I have been thinking much along the same lines lately. The problem with being immersed in social media is that I can get so lost in the chatter and talking about, I lose all the actual doing. I often vacillate between being over-connected and isolated. Isolation is better for creativity, but not too much, as it can lead to too much inward spiraling. Balance is always best, often sought, rarely achieved. Fortunately I have my children (my own little chaos machines) to constantly push the reset button on whatever rut I've gotten too comfortable in. Now I suppose I should stop commenting on other people's blogs and actually write something on my own (http://thesquashedbologna.blogspot.com).

]]> By: Laurie http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Laurie Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:35:58 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-272 It IS good, you do have many people who are fascinated with the book and have read and adored it. ME being one of them. If you are working on a new book, so be it. I started a blog with one tentative post (<a href="http://hibernationnow.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">hibernationnow.wordpress.com</a>) and now I have over 135. The title alone (hibernationnow) is what I was trying to escape from and I did it, little by little. My voice, my feelings. I've heard this expression before and I wanted to share it with your "Praying is talking to G-D, Meditating is Listening." Love, Laurie It IS good, you do have many people who are fascinated with the book and have read and adored it. ME being one of them. If you are working on a new book, so be it. I started a blog with one tentative post (hibernationnow.wordpress.com) and now I have over 135. The title alone (hibernationnow) is what I was trying to escape from and I did it, little by little. My voice, my feelings. I've heard this expression before and I wanted to share it with your "Praying is talking to G-D, Meditating is Listening." Love, Laurie

]]> By: Dani http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Dani Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:42:19 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-270 Great proverb -- true so for many aspects of life, not just the writing life! Great proverb -- true so for many aspects of life, not just the writing life!

]]> By: Dani http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Dani Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:41:30 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-269 Harrison, lovely to see you here on my blog! I've been getting into the habit of telling people, lately, that I am on a self-imposed retreat. Another way of putting it: hiding out. Impossible to overestimate the necessity of solitude. Thanks. Harrison, lovely to see you here on my blog! I've been getting into the habit of telling people, lately, that I am on a self-imposed retreat. Another way of putting it: hiding out. Impossible to overestimate the necessity of solitude. Thanks.

]]> By: Dani http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Dani Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:40:11 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-268 Hi Fred. I'm realizing how much I've been not following my own advice lately -- blabbing all over the place about ideas instead of sorting them out in my head and on the page. There's a time for dialogue, and for literary conversation -- usually after a first draft is done. Hi Fred. I'm realizing how much I've been not following my own advice lately -- blabbing all over the place about ideas instead of sorting them out in my head and on the page. There's a time for dialogue, and for literary conversation -- usually after a first draft is done.

]]> By: Dani http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-267 Dani Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:39:00 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-267 Thanks for this, John. Particularly resonant as my writing studio is upstairs in my house. Thanks for this, John. Particularly resonant as my writing studio is upstairs in my house.

]]> By: John Baker http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-266 John Baker Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:31:29 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-266 Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second.<br>Robert Frost Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

]]> By: Fred Bubbers http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Fred Bubbers Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:02:33 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-265 I completely agree. For me, talking about any piece that's not done pretty much guarantees that it will never get done. I completely agree. For me, talking about any piece that's not done pretty much guarantees that it will never get done.

]]> By: Harrison Solow http://danishapiro.com/2010/07/on-talking/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Harrison Solow Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:46:10 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/?p=1113#comment-263 Absolutely. No dissonance with anything said above! Excerpt from a difficult letter I wrote to a friend, explaining why I did not want her to visit me although she would be in the area - near the village I was writing in - and about in my "Bendithion":<br><br> My heart has grown some very delicate tendrils attached to the mysterious heart of this village, and I prefer that no one from the other world (except my children of course) visit me here. Something happens when I bring my former life and present one together and it alters everything - the perception of what I am writing - my relationship to the material and the source of it -and my ability to write it - a balance is disrupted. That recursive occlusion in which I live recedes from itself and I find it very distressing and very difficult to get back into the book I live in and the book I am writing. It all disappears and so much richness that has built up is lost. I am not sure why that happens but most writers I know feel that way, which is why they tend to be reclusive while working on their material. One of my friends, Isaac Asimov, wrote in a closet in the middle of New York. I've been in it. Another, Harlan Ellison, writes in an invisible room, encastled in Sherman Oaks. I've been in that too. But I live in a land that that few other than my friends and neighbours can "be" in - a land that does not exist unless I remain attached to something I cannot fathom. So I am, to put it bluntly, hiding out."<br><br>Thank you for this great post!<br><br>Harrison Solow Absolutely. No dissonance with anything said above! Excerpt from a difficult letter I wrote to a friend, explaining why I did not want her to visit me although she would be in the area - near the village I was writing in - and about in my "Bendithion":

My heart has grown some very delicate tendrils attached to the mysterious heart of this village, and I prefer that no one from the other world (except my children of course) visit me here. Something happens when I bring my former life and present one together and it alters everything - the perception of what I am writing - my relationship to the material and the source of it -and my ability to write it - a balance is disrupted. That recursive occlusion in which I live recedes from itself and I find it very distressing and very difficult to get back into the book I live in and the book I am writing. It all disappears and so much richness that has built up is lost. I am not sure why that happens but most writers I know feel that way, which is why they tend to be reclusive while working on their material. One of my friends, Isaac Asimov, wrote in a closet in the middle of New York. I've been in it. Another, Harlan Ellison, writes in an invisible room, encastled in Sherman Oaks. I've been in that too. But I live in a land that that few other than my friends and neighbours can "be" in - a land that does not exist unless I remain attached to something I cannot fathom. So I am, to put it bluntly, hiding out."

Thank you for this great post!

Harrison Solow

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