Comments on: This Is When It’s Important

By: Circles: Patterns in Which I Run | Ruthanne Reid, Author {Blog}

Circles: Patterns in Which I Run | Ruthanne Reid, Author {Blog} — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:26:15 +0000

[...] love, love, love this post: when it’s important to write. Boy, is that the [...]

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:58:31 +0000

I find writing to be very helpful to me when I’m especially having a bad day. Writing gets me through anything, and like you said, gives me the chance of seeing everything in a different light. Happy to hear that your writing is going well.

By: Lili

Lili — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:17:46 +0000

Mike: Oh yes. It’s ALL material. The writer in my head never stops taking notes and figuring out ways to describe things.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:09:17 +0000

I’m curious, do you ever use your own emotions as a template for writing? Say, if you’re feeling particularly sad or angry about something, do you use the experience in your stories?

By: Serenity

Serenity — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:22:20 +0000

@KarenS – WOW! Your remark about putting a light in the window so your muse finds her way back home is most profound. IMO. Really hit home this morning. Thank you. Hope you won’t mind that I’m going to stick that up on my wall. Wonderful inspiration to just keep at it when things get tough. @Miss Lilith – on the money as usual. Some of the best stuff spews forth when we’re tired/upset/not having a great day. Now Miss Muse, the light is on, you’d better get your little tush back home. It’s cold out there…

By: KarenS

KarenS — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:05:37 +0000

I know exactly what you mean. I’m a glass artist, and I’ve had a rather tumultuous life the last several years. My one piece of sanity through everything has been my glass. It’s there for me through all the ups and downs, my One Precious Thing. Sometimes my muse takes vacations, but I can still melt ‘stuff’ and at least put a light in the window so she finds her way home. I can work angry, I can work happy, I can work sad. I can look at some of my creations, after the fact, and remember exactly where my head was that day. The glass and the fire keep me honest, at least to myself.

By: The V Woman

The V Woman — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:01:41 +0000

There’s always something to be said for having complete control over something. Having the ability to kill someone that is annoying you, even if it is only in a story.