Comments on: Garbage? Not So Much http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/01/29/garbage-not-so-much/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Helping you build and maintain resilience for your writing...and your life. Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:43:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Carol Grannick http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/01/29/garbage-not-so-much/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Carol Grannick Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:49:37 +0000 http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/?p=606#comment-117 Greg, you make an excellent point about the reality that is simply built in to the writing life...and, I would have to say, into many other fields of work in which we must believe before we actually produce the product. And as Anne Lamott reminded us in BIRD BY BIRD, even our tiniest production, of any quality, is a step toward the dream. It is harder, no question, to believe in something before it's tangible. And yet we do, and we must - because that's what helps to make it real. Kristin Cashore's exquisite post on this last week is a poetic commentary on this aspect of our process: http://bit.ly/6w19KE Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Greg, you make an excellent point about the reality that is simply built in to the writing life…and, I would have to say, into many other fields of work in which we must believe before we actually produce the product. And as Anne Lamott reminded us in BIRD BY BIRD, even our tiniest production, of any quality, is a step toward the dream.

It is harder, no question, to believe in something before it’s tangible. And yet we do, and we must – because that’s what helps to make it real. Kristin Cashore’s exquisite post on this last week is a poetic commentary on this aspect of our process: http://bit.ly/6w19KE

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

]]> By: Greg Pincus http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/01/29/garbage-not-so-much/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Greg Pincus Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:52:41 +0000 http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/?p=606#comment-116 I think one of the things that's challenging when applying the three steps to writing is that you can' t always see the visual "proof" that it's working. What's great about the garbage/recycling example is that you CAN so clearly see it... and extrapolate that if the steps are working in this area, they are likely working in the writing area, too. That's a bit of solace on those days that the visual proof just isn't there.... I think one of the things that’s challenging when applying the three steps to writing is that you can’ t always see the visual “proof” that it’s working. What’s great about the garbage/recycling example is that you CAN so clearly see it… and extrapolate that if the steps are working in this area, they are likely working in the writing area, too. That’s a bit of solace on those days that the visual proof just isn’t there….

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