Comments on: Thomas Sullivan: “HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY…” or MURDERING YOUR MUSE http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/ Just another Storytellers Unplugged weblog Thu, 24 May 2012 04:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ecommerce http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-783 ecommerce Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:47:49 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-783 Really nice read thanks, I have added this to my Mixx bookmarks. Really nice read thanks, I have added this to my Mixx bookmarks.

]]> By: Teri Jo Stricker http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-762 Teri Jo Stricker Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:28:41 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-762 The meaningfulness of life is a TALL order! I'll stick with knowing how to be happy. That works for me, heh heh! I'm glad to see you are as happy and as kind as I remember. Have a great summer! I'd tell you to keep writing, but I'm sure you will! Teri The meaningfulness of life is a TALL order! I’ll stick with knowing how to be happy. That works for me, heh heh!

I’m glad to see you are as happy and as kind as I remember. Have a great summer! I’d tell you to keep writing, but I’m sure you will!

Teri

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:36:53 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-759 Funny, but the subject of the Society of the Black Bull has come up in another email today -- from Massachusetts. And they thought the Colt 45 commercial of a black bull coming through the wall was enduring! Terrific email, Teri, and I appreciate it very much. Sounds like you have captured the essence of meaningfulness in life. I shall check out Martina McBride's "Anyway." I'll also send you a Sullgram... in a little while -- my newsletter that comes out once a month, which has a lot of the motivational tone I think you like as well as photos. And I do have a memory of you from those days back in Michigan in Beverly Hills at the Verdis. Thanks for the comments re: THE PHASES OF HARRY MOON. Cheers... -- Sully Funny, but the subject of the Society of the Black Bull has come up in another email today — from Massachusetts. And they thought the Colt 45 commercial of a black bull coming through the wall was enduring! Terrific email, Teri, and I appreciate it very much. Sounds like you have captured the essence of meaningfulness in life. I shall check out Martina McBride’s “Anyway.” I’ll also send you a Sullgram… in a little while — my newsletter that comes out once a month, which has a lot of the motivational tone I think you like as well as photos. And I do have a memory of you from those days back in Michigan in Beverly Hills at the Verdis. Thanks for the comments re: THE PHASES OF HARRY MOON. Cheers…

– Sully

]]> By: Teri Jo Stricker http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Teri Jo Stricker Mon, 31 May 2010 00:08:08 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-756 Hi Tom, You may not remember me, in fact I'd be surprised if you did. I was a short time visitor to the Society of The Black Bull, many long years ago. Dreams are wonderous things, but sometimes we have to sort through them. I met you and Lauren and many others back then because I was typing a manuscript for someone, as I recall. What I learned sitting in those sessions was that I wasn't going to be the Great American Author. What's more, that I didn't really WANT to be anymore. It was a childhood dream I simply didn't know I'd outgrown. This revelation made me took a look at those dusty old dreams and find out which ones I actually still lived. Those dreams I have chased since then haven't made me rich, famous, or any of those things folks find so important. But they've been satisfying. And I found out that rich and famous wasn't what I wanted anyway. Well, okay, I wouldn't mind the "rich" so much. I was strolling through memory lane, and just finished a re-read of The Phases of Harry Moon, and aside from deciding it was every bit as good a tale as I remembered, it made me Google you. And here I am "yammering on" as my mother would say. As a child reading was my escape. As I grew, writing stories for others to escape into became my dream. Now, years later, reading is a joy. I no longer need to escape life, since I've the freedom to make life as I want it - well within reason anyway! Write on, Sing on, Dream On. Teri P.S. Another powerful song, though more related to dreams than to love - is Martina McBride's "Anyway." Hi Tom,

You may not remember me, in fact I’d be surprised if you did. I was a short time visitor to the Society of The Black Bull, many long years ago.

Dreams are wonderous things, but sometimes we have to sort through them. I met you and Lauren and many others back then because I was typing a manuscript for someone, as I recall.

What I learned sitting in those sessions was that I wasn’t going to be the Great American Author. What’s more, that I didn’t really WANT to be anymore. It was a childhood dream I simply didn’t know I’d outgrown.

This revelation made me took a look at those dusty old dreams and find out which ones I actually still lived.

Those dreams I have chased since then haven’t made me rich, famous, or any of those things folks find so important. But they’ve been satisfying. And I found out that rich and famous wasn’t what I wanted anyway.

Well, okay, I wouldn’t mind the “rich” so much.

I was strolling through memory lane, and just finished a re-read of The Phases of Harry Moon, and aside from deciding it was every bit as good a tale as I remembered, it made me Google you. And here I am “yammering on” as my mother would say.

As a child reading was my escape. As I grew, writing stories for others to escape into became my dream. Now, years later, reading is a joy. I no longer need to escape life, since I’ve the freedom to make life as I want it – well within reason anyway!

Write on, Sing on, Dream On.

Teri

P.S. Another powerful song, though more related to dreams than to love – is Martina McBride’s “Anyway.”

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Thomas Sullivan Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:16:02 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-627 Yeah, The Artist's Way, is a winner. But you are modest as usual. It's for anyone. Sutton Foster, Broadway's Tony award winner for best actress in a musical comedy (Thoroughly Modern Millie), was one of my son's troupe mates in Peanut Butter Players professional children theater. She wrote me extensive e-mails when she was on Broadway and working her way through The Artist's Way. So I have a lot of respect for it, and a lot of gratitude for your kind words. Makes my day...or night. Write on, Jeanie! Yeah, The Artist’s Way, is a winner. But you are modest as usual. It’s for anyone. Sutton Foster, Broadway’s Tony award winner for best actress in a musical comedy (Thoroughly Modern Millie), was one of my son’s troupe mates in Peanut Butter Players professional children theater. She wrote me extensive e-mails when she was on Broadway and working her way through The Artist’s Way. So I have a lot of respect for it, and a lot of gratitude for your kind words. Makes my day…or night. Write on, Jeanie!

]]> By: Jeanie Ransom http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Jeanie Ransom Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:16:07 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-622 I'm reading your post almost exactly a month later, but then, I keep catching myself writing "November" instead of "December," so I guess time is just slipping away faster than my mind can process! Anyhoo, I just wanted to let you know that your words reached right through my computer screen and wrapped around my heart. It's what I've been feeling -- and struggling with -- for so long now. I've been doing The Artist's Way (most blocked creatives are familiar with it!) for 9 weeks now -- 3 more to go -- in an attempt to jump-start my writing productivity, and it's been helpful. But reading your post did more for me in less than five minutes than 9 weeks of The Artist's Way. Thank you, Sully! I’m reading your post almost exactly a month later, but then, I keep catching myself writing “November” instead of “December,” so I guess time is just slipping away faster than my mind can process! Anyhoo, I just wanted to let you know that your words reached right through my computer screen and wrapped around my heart. It’s what I’ve been feeling — and struggling with — for so long now. I’ve been doing The Artist’s Way (most blocked creatives are familiar with it!) for 9 weeks now — 3 more to go — in an attempt to jump-start my writing productivity, and it’s been helpful. But reading your post did more for me in less than five minutes than 9 weeks of The Artist’s Way. Thank you, Sully!

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-619 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:27:30 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-619 test comment test comment

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:34:13 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-618 Exactly! There wouldn't be an audience if there wasn't something better than being an audience. If you never mount the stage, you have never lived. And the more you live on the stage, the more meaningful your life is. Am still laughing at "sitting perpetually with the audience puts more than one's butt to sleep." Well, I guess the term "romance novel" balks me a little, but of course any classic novel is at some level a romance, and romantic idealism is my stage. Can I write it and live it at the same time? -- Sully Exactly! There wouldn’t be an audience if there wasn’t something better than being an audience. If you never mount the stage, you have never lived. And the more you live on the stage, the more meaningful your life is. Am still laughing at “sitting perpetually with the audience puts more than one’s butt to sleep.”

Well, I guess the term “romance novel” balks me a little, but of course any classic novel is at some level a romance, and romantic idealism is my stage. Can I write it and live it at the same time?

– Sully

]]> By: Robert Jones http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-615 Robert Jones Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:01:52 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-615 Because it feels safer (and more “predictable,” there is some comfort in sitting “with the audience.” But from where can a habitual audiencee find worthwhile satisfaction that only scrambling onto a stage can provide? From another perspective, where would an audiencee find external stimulation were it not for those who do follow their aspirations and scale the slippery steps onto a stage? Sitting perpetually with the audience puts more than one's butt to sleep. Yet another dose of stimulating motivation culled directly from the experiences of The Sullivan, who has been there, done that. Excellent and effective piece, mon ami. Oh, and one more thing: you should write a romance novel. It would be like no other. Amalgam Because it feels safer (and more “predictable,” there is some comfort in sitting “with the audience.” But from where can a habitual audiencee find worthwhile satisfaction that only scrambling onto a stage can provide? From another perspective, where would an audiencee find external stimulation were it not for those who do follow their aspirations and scale the slippery steps onto a stage? Sitting perpetually with the audience puts more than one’s butt to sleep.

Yet another dose of stimulating motivation culled directly from the experiences of The Sullivan, who has been there, done that.

Excellent and effective piece, mon ami.

Oh, and one more thing: you should write a romance novel. It would be like no other.

Amalgam

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2009/11/16/thomas-sullivan-%e2%80%9che-stopped-loving-her-today%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-or-murdering-your-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-614 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:29:49 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3117#comment-614 Apologies that your comment didn't post earlier, Hal (a.k.a. Peter Pan). Just discovered where WordPress hides its procrastinations. I'll be able to find them quickly, if it ever happens again, so please don't give up on the posting process. As for the pirate plans, are you referring to Tonga? If they quit having earthquakes and tsunamis there, I'm on for a 12-day ocean kayaking adventure, camping from atoll to atoll around next September. It's starting to look like the new flick "2012" and the Mayan prediction for the end of the world in the South Pacific. Fortunately for me that's supposed to happen December 21. Unfortunately for you guys that complicates your travel plans. Shoot for early in the month and don't buy any green bananas, that's my advice. :-) -- Sully Apologies that your comment didn’t post earlier, Hal (a.k.a. Peter Pan). Just discovered where WordPress hides its procrastinations. I’ll be able to find them quickly, if it ever happens again, so please don’t give up on the posting process.

As for the pirate plans, are you referring to Tonga? If they quit having earthquakes and tsunamis there, I’m on for a 12-day ocean kayaking adventure, camping from atoll to atoll around next September. It’s starting to look like the new flick “2012″ and the Mayan prediction for the end of the world in the South Pacific. Fortunately for me that’s supposed to happen December 21. Unfortunately for you guys that complicates your travel plans. Shoot for early in the month and don’t buy any green bananas, that’s my advice. :-)

– Sully

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