Comments for Musings of a Scattered Mind

Comment on My Digital Life by Asheyna

Asheyna — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:04:22 +0000

Do it You won’t regret it, they are seriously awesome! <3

Comment on My Digital Life by Eric (Faltarego)

Eric (Faltarego) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:30:51 +0000

Because I’m a Google fan, I want an Android phone.

Someday.

Someday…

Comment on A Bouquet of Pencils by Asheyna

Asheyna — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:20:59 +0000

Lol we must have been. But I for one am totally ok with it!

Comment on A Bouquet of Pencils by Eric (Faltarego)

Eric (Faltarego) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:25:34 +0000

So… um… were we, like, separated at birth or something? Check out my latest blog post and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about.

Glad to see you’re blogging again. I like the Twenty-Ten theme, and I was considering using it myself, but I opted to spruce up the one I’d created myself using a tutorial.

I luvs me mah WordPress!

Comment on Confessions of a Teacher by Annie Cristina

Annie Cristina — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:50:55 +0000

Yay for confessions posts! And I feel the same way about red pens — I use them to grade mundane things, like quizzes or multiple choice exams, things that get filed and the students don’t see. But if it’s an essay or something I plan on handing back to students, I normally use green or purple ink. I agree with you also on the school system rant — my local school system places financial needs above our students’ needs. The way I see it, at least our students have teachers like us, who care about them first.

Comment on Don’t Panic! by g² (gwen)

g² (gwen) — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:20:09 +0000

I had my towel with me all day… even made up a shirt featuring the following…
Front: DON’T PANIC, along with Towel Day, May 25, and a blue towel
Back: 42, DON’T PANIC, and “so long and thanks for all the fish.”
Left sleeve: whale with “That’s it! GROUND!”
Right sleeve: bowl of petunias with “oh no, not again…”

I have to say, I’m pretty proud of that shirt. I actually got to use my towel today, too! My friend was cold at lunch, as she was right under the AC-vent, so I lent it to her as a sort of blanket. My other friend, a fellow frood, commented on the hoopiness of my prepared-ness. ^^

Comment on GAH!! by MikeD

MikeD — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:58:18 +0000

One really excellent piece of advice I once got for dealing with not writing is sitting down and writing or typing the following:

What I really want to write right now is…

Then let your brain fiddle with it.

And if you don’t already have the Julia Cameron Book “The Right to Write” get it and start laying tracks.

Comment on GAH!! by Alex

Alex — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:52:30 +0000

I am friend *huggles*

That sounds like good advice to me; write now edit later. But if you tried that and it doesn’t work out, what can you do? You seem to already have a system that works for you so I’d stick with it

I’d only suggest, if you really feel like you want to put something on paper, write down the whatever little ideas or sentences that come to you and use them later I keep a little book of random bits of conversations, descriptions, etc. that don’t fit in anywhere at the moment but could later or in a different story.

Either way I like the story, I’d be interested in seeing more

Comment on GAH!! by g² (gwen)

g² (gwen) — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:30:38 +0000

You iterated my “advice” already: Wait it out. It’s like with writing and with piano, if it’s not ready it’s not ready. It’s good to mull it over, to let it sit, and when it’s ready to be written it’ll come. Block happens, to the best of writers and to the most excellent of story ideas. I currently have something going that’s the narrative version of a radio play, using the ol’ private eye angle, but I cannot, for the life of me, think of a case. I know I’m trying to stew up something in the back of my head, but I’m otherwise occupied, unfortunately.

But, at least it might be comforting that the brain keeps working away at something even while you’re otherwise occupied.

Comment on Bleeding on Paper by Marissa/Loralei

Marissa/Loralei — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:36:02 +0000

Ooooh!!! That’s a really good snippet, Ash! I would definitely buy it

And I completely understand about how much emotion that goes into writing — I have a tendency of becoming completely emotionally spent after writing some scenes — or even just parts. And I’ve gotten comments (especially on my poetry) that say that they can really tell that there’s actual emotion there, which kinda makes me happy because I a) intend for it to seem that way, and b) I normally can’t write unless I’m in some sort of intense emotion (which goes to show how often I have an intense emotion… uh-oh…)

But, with the emotional exhaustion, I find that I feel a lot better, even if it’s just after that one scene — especially if I’m writing something that runs parallel to something that has happened to me or is, at the very least, rather similar. Because as soon as those words are on paper for me, they aren’t inside of me causing me those emotions.

Plus I have a tendency to knit or crochet when it gets to be too much…