Comments for Storytellers Unplugged http://storytellersunplugged.com Where Words and Imagination Meet Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:58:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on How Better Happens by Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2012/02/09/how-better-happens/comment-page-1/#comment-15210 Thomas Sullivan Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:58:37 +0000 http://10.2656#comment-15210 Rich and solid as always, my friend. So much of common sense only comes across with repetition that is yet fresh in its penetration and expression. Blessed is he/she who can continually frame new images, metaphors, find the patterns and connect the dots for those things we know are true (because we recognize them when someone shows them to us) but which we cannot find the imagination or inspiration to grasp for ourelves. Love your inversions (e.g. "doesn't...never do") that so effectively point out the futility of not trying, not living, and the absolute sense of courage. Everything you put in here just screams the truisms that life IS a journey, that it's all about growth and change, and none of it happens without putting one foot in front of the other. Keep framing perspectives for the world as you travel, Brian. The chronicle of your rise is a coat with long, long...um, tales. Rich and solid as always, my friend. So much of common sense only comes across with repetition that is yet fresh in its penetration and expression. Blessed is he/she who can continually frame new images, metaphors, find the patterns and connect the dots for those things we know are true (because we recognize them when someone shows them to us) but which we cannot find the imagination or inspiration to grasp for ourelves. Love your inversions (e.g. “doesn’t…never do”) that so effectively point out the futility of not trying, not living, and the absolute sense of courage. Everything you put in here just screams the truisms that life IS a journey, that it’s all about growth and change, and none of it happens without putting one foot in front of the other. Keep framing perspectives for the world as you travel, Brian. The chronicle of your rise is a coat with long, long…um, tales.

]]> Comment on A New World, New Tools – KDP Select – Game On by David Niall WIlson http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2012/01/30/a-new-world-new-tools-kdp-select-game-on/comment-page-1/#comment-15008 David Niall WIlson Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:39:39 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2287#comment-15008 Thanks Carole. So...about 19,999 more and I will be in the range quoted by the people for whom this really really worked.. (lol) Hope you enjoy it. DNW Thanks Carole. So…about 19,999 more and I will be in the range quoted by the people for whom this really really worked.. (lol) Hope you enjoy it.

DNW

]]> Comment on A New World, New Tools – KDP Select – Game On by Carole Lanham http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2012/01/30/a-new-world-new-tools-kdp-select-game-on/comment-page-1/#comment-15006 Carole Lanham Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:09:28 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2287#comment-15006 I'll download it. Looks awesome! I’ll download it. Looks awesome!

]]> Comment on The Day Job by Carole Lanham http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2012/01/17/the-day-job-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14929 Carole Lanham Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:05:52 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2272#comment-14929 I love this post. Glad you pulled it out again to be enjoyed by those of us who missed it the first time. I love this post. Glad you pulled it out again to be enjoyed by those of us who missed it the first time.

]]> Comment on The Same River Twice: On Rewriting Your Past by Brian Hodge http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2012/01/09/the-same-river-twice-on-rewriting-your-past/comment-page-1/#comment-14784 Brian Hodge Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:35:31 +0000 http://10.2650#comment-14784 Sully: Going downhill your whole life? Aw, surely you get on the ski lift for a trip back to the top once in a while! Bob: Exactly. It falls under the "If I'd known then what I know now" umbrella. Sully: Going downhill your whole life? Aw, surely you get on the ski lift for a trip back to the top once in a while!

Bob: Exactly. It falls under the “If I’d known then what I know now” umbrella.

]]> Comment on The Same River Twice: On Rewriting Your Past by Robert Jones http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2012/01/09/the-same-river-twice-on-rewriting-your-past/comment-page-1/#comment-14772 Robert Jones Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:03:33 +0000 http://10.2650#comment-14772 Language provides writers with many ways to express themselves. Not all ways occur previously to or during a writing process. Tweaking, therefore, seems a worthwhile endeavor. Thank you for voicing your opinion and your reasons therefor, Brian. Language provides writers with many ways to express themselves. Not all ways occur previously to or during a writing process. Tweaking, therefore, seems a worthwhile endeavor.

Thank you for voicing your opinion and your reasons therefor, Brian.

]]> Comment on Saying Hello to the Past by Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2011/12/11/saying-hello-to-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-14660 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:10:08 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2214#comment-14660 "Art is never finished, it is merely abandoned." Lovely. But for me, the abandonment is so total that I can rarely get back into it. Guess the other great saying applies here, i.e. "You can never enter the same river twice." That's me. Changing too fast to reconnect. But in my case, I have the ultimate blessing. Since I've been going downhill all my life, I don't have to address the possibility that I could actually make something BETTER. It would get worse. My cardinal sayings are, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and "Ignorance is bliss." :-) “Art is never finished, it is merely abandoned.” Lovely. But for me, the abandonment is so total that I can rarely get back into it. Guess the other great saying applies here, i.e. “You can never enter the same river twice.” That’s me. Changing too fast to reconnect. But in my case, I have the ultimate blessing. Since I’ve been going downhill all my life, I don’t have to address the possibility that I could actually make something BETTER. It would get worse. My cardinal sayings are, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” and “Ignorance is bliss.” :-)

]]> Comment on The Same River Twice: On Rewriting Your Past by Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2012/01/09/the-same-river-twice-on-rewriting-your-past/comment-page-1/#comment-14658 Thomas Sullivan Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:24:17 +0000 http://10.2650#comment-14658 "Art is never finished, it is merely abandoned." Lovely. But for me, the abandonment is so total that I can rarely get back into it. Guess the other great saying applies here, i.e. "You can never enter the same river twice." That's me. Changing too fast to reconnect. But in my case, I have the ultimate blessing. Since I've been going downhill all my life, I don't have to address the possibility that I could actually make something BETTER. It would get worse. My cardinal sayings are, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and "Ignorance is bliss." :-) “Art is never finished, it is merely abandoned.” Lovely. But for me, the abandonment is so total that I can rarely get back into it. Guess the other great saying applies here, i.e. “You can never enter the same river twice.” That’s me. Changing too fast to reconnect. But in my case, I have the ultimate blessing. Since I’ve been going downhill all my life, I don’t have to address the possibility that I could actually make something BETTER. It would get worse. My cardinal sayings are, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” and “Ignorance is bliss.” :-)

]]> Comment on Disruptive Thinking by Robert Jones http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2012/01/04/disruptive-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-14602 Robert Jones Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:15:26 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2255#comment-14602 Fine advice clothed in an enviable cover of effective visual examples. Fine advice clothed in an enviable cover of effective visual examples.

]]> Comment on Happy Storyteller New Year by Judi Rohrig http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2011/12/31/happy-storyteller-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-14562 Judi Rohrig Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:56:10 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=2246#comment-14562 Besides being one hell of a writer, Hugh was such a delightful man. I had the honor of meeting him in St. Augustine. He and I were supposed to have stories in the same anthology, and I had marveled at how he had not only written his in two shorts weeks, but had shipped it to the editor. As he downed a bottle of Red Stripe with lunch, he chuckled at my amazement. He said at his age (I think he was in his 90s then), he had to write fast. We continued to exchange emails after that, and he was always offering something to make me laugh. Thanks for sharing this, Dave. Great to remember Hugh here in 2012. Or any year. Besides being one hell of a writer, Hugh was such a delightful man. I had the honor of meeting him in St. Augustine. He and I were supposed to have stories in the same anthology, and I had marveled at how he had not only written his in two shorts weeks, but had shipped it to the editor. As he downed a bottle of Red Stripe with lunch, he chuckled at my amazement. He said at his age (I think he was in his 90s then), he had to write fast. We continued to exchange emails after that, and he was always offering something to make me laugh. Thanks for sharing this, Dave. Great to remember Hugh here in 2012. Or any year.

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