Comments on: The Value of Doing Nothing http://wisdomwithinink.com/2009/12/22/the-value-of-doing-nothing/ Reflection + Re(Dis)covery = Self-Confidence... Re-INK Your Life! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:18:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Looking for rhythm « wisdom within, ink http://wisdomwithinink.com/2009/12/22/the-value-of-doing-nothing/#comment-751 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:58:33 +0000 http://wisdomwithinink.com/?p=1257#comment-751 [...] with my journal or a good book (and consider it research). I’ve written before about the benefit of the spaces in between work, but it is hard to remember the creative benefit of stopping once in a while. I also have to [...]

]]> By: Kimages http://wisdomwithinink.com/2009/12/22/the-value-of-doing-nothing/#comment-750 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:32:43 +0000 http://wisdomwithinink.com/?p=1257#comment-750 I once attended a reading and QA session with the writer/poet Mary Karr. She professed to write in chunks, sometimes not writing at all and other times digging in deep. I found great comfort in that. I think a lot of writers are going around saying they write every day, but I think they are fibbing to us. It’s become the ‘in’thing for writers to say. ‘You should write every day.’I’m an artist and I don’t draw every day. I’m a writer and I don’t write every day. If I did, I’d probably hate it. I believe in discipline and goals, but not in self-torture. We all have to find the way that works best for us.

]]> By: Joanna http://wisdomwithinink.com/2009/12/22/the-value-of-doing-nothing/#comment-709 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:54:55 +0000 http://wisdomwithinink.com/?p=1257#comment-709 I’ll have to find that book. I’m not familiar with it but it sounds great. I definitely like deadlines (have a really big one coming up for Mothering magazine – they accepted my query and now I’m freaking out that I have to write a good enough essay!) but my everyday stuff – blog and examiner – is harder. Actually, I usually use my blog as a way to procrastinate because it is no pressure writing and I really enjoy it – usually. Some days though…

Merry Christmas to you too!

]]> By: jessie http://wisdomwithinink.com/2009/12/22/the-value-of-doing-nothing/#comment-706 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:33:57 +0000 http://wisdomwithinink.com/?p=1257#comment-706 Joanna,

I just thought of something, a great Christmas gift to yourself if it’s not too late: Have you read “The Writer’s Desk”? It’s actually a book of famous writers at work, by Jill Krementz. Each picture, in black-and-white, comes with a quote about the working style of the writer in the photo.

My stepmother bought me the book years ago to inspire me to write and every time I look at it, it makes me feel like I have some connection to Real Writers (people who write for a living, not a pittance).

Just a suggestion. I totally hear where you’re coming from, but I’ve found that writing on deadline is a HUGE motivator!

Merry Christmas!

]]> By: Eric http://wisdomwithinink.com/2009/12/22/the-value-of-doing-nothing/#comment-705 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:35:50 +0000 http://wisdomwithinink.com/?p=1257#comment-705 Music is created by the spaces between as much as the notes.

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