tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post4550767070426794113..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: There is no average reader, but there is curly green in Uruguay.Frescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-66440332675478028222011-01-26T11:13:38.885-06:002011-01-26T11:13:38.885-06:00JENN: Yes, yes, yes--I really struggle with under...JENN: Yes, yes, yes--I really struggle with under-/over-explaining... and with trying to be kind on top of it.<br /><br />Sometimes I think trying to be kind is a limitation, but then I think, no, that limitation should make me a better writer. A good writer s/b able to tell the hard truth without being mean.<br /><br />The snarky truth is easier to write--and often more amusing to read. But do I want to write it?<br />Well, yeah, sometimes!<br />But on the whole?<br /> *sighs and turns from temptation*<br />Well, I guess not.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-33219988911796624652011-01-25T23:27:04.235-06:002011-01-25T23:27:04.235-06:00Fuck the average editor, I would say instead, mean...<i>Fuck the average editor, I would say instead, meaning (mostly) my own internal strangulation device. </i><br /><br />Yeah, I knew what you meant in the previous post, but I do agree with the clarification! It's like you say, that strangling worry and assumption that people aren't going to get something. Depending on what you're writing--I can see why it might be a useful assumption to have when writing a middle-school textbook--it can really choke your writing. That balance between over-explaining and under-explaining is always such a struggle...Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13923745480765984429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-80301146068861331442011-01-24T12:15:53.053-06:002011-01-24T12:15:53.053-06:00SPARKY: I just put that book on hold at the librar...SPARKY: I just put that book on hold at the library, thanks to you.<br /><br />FISMO: I wonder how we'd say "Ooh la la" in Spanish?<br /><br />RACHEL: Thanks for the oomph. I am liking it, so far.<br /><br />BINK: THanks--that's it--"getting rid of our internal constraints". Let us declare INCHWAR on them! (Some say that's what jihad is supposed to be too.)<br /><br />KAREN: Sweet! And what a great thing to do in church.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-19676250841174390802011-01-23T15:16:07.823-06:002011-01-23T15:16:07.823-06:00Mateo knit two rows on a scarf during church today...Mateo knit two rows on a scarf during church today. I couldn't get either daugher hooked, but maybe my youngest will be my protege!!Karennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-42375171781171948702011-01-20T17:13:38.889-06:002011-01-20T17:13:38.889-06:00I really wasn't going to leave a comment. I a...I really wasn't going to leave a comment. I agree with you that "fuck the average reader" is really about getting rid of our internal constraints (that are sometimes placed upon us by others--thanks, mom).<br /><br />Anyway, I wasn't really going to comment because I obviously don't have much to add but then I saw that my word verification was "inchwar" and I thought that was just too good! INCHWAR... that niggling war we fight inch by inch to reclaim our brains and creativity for ourselves!binknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-47292583272779796722011-01-20T16:03:32.373-06:002011-01-20T16:03:32.373-06:00wooohooooooooooo! Thank you poodletail! for the le...wooohooooooooooo! Thank you poodletail! for the lesson and, I presume, for the picture too? Very exciting. I hope you enjoy it - after such a build-up it would be disappointing but not astonishing if you didn't.<br /><br />(I have a blog entirely devoted to knitting now. Not for the non-knitter of faint heart - I find many other people's obsessive interests can be really boring which is why I've hived the stitches off)Rachelhttp://skyfishknits.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-40678931030160651622011-01-20T16:03:06.249-06:002011-01-20T16:03:06.249-06:00I just this minute bought red and pink yarn on my ...I just this minute bought red and pink yarn on my lunch break. I could go for some of that curly hair myself - the blond hair! Ooh lala!femminismohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05259380168965137800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-638160740088158882011-01-20T15:01:13.112-06:002011-01-20T15:01:13.112-06:00Just reading "Our Tragic Universe", by S...Just reading "Our Tragic Universe", by Scarlett Thomas, in which knitting figures prominently. A werewolf is implied, I have thirty pages left to go, and I'll tell you, if I don't get an actual werewolf before the end I shall be most annoyed...don't know if the werewolf knits.<br /><br />Joni Mitchell is said to have wirtten "Little green" about a child she gave up for adoption.ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-2124526539736780302011-01-20T12:40:27.722-06:002011-01-20T12:40:27.722-06:00oooh, that Malabrigo wool is so wonderful! I got s...oooh, that Malabrigo wool is so wonderful! I got some last year at Depth of Field, but I still haven't used it. <br />Lovely pictures!momohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149328149132703479noreply@blogger.com