Comments on: The What’th of September… http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/22/the-whatth-of-september/ The Les Becker Blog: Writer (fiction, non-fiction, story-telling, memories, screenplays, radioplays, lyrics, ghost-writing, magazine articles, tourism and event promotion) and amateur photographer from Northern Ontario. Looking to escape Northern Ontario. Rescue me. Tue, 22 May 2012 04:38:43 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Elle http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/22/the-whatth-of-september/comment-page-1/#comment-12312 Elle Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:57:00 +0000 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=328#comment-12312 Hey, cleaning the bathroom counts. And writing is not a linear process. It ebbs and flows, you can't swim against it without winding up with a snootful of theoretical salt water. Pick a pen and go with the flow. <em>Les Says: No kidding, writing is not linear...! Which explains why I have all the half-finished projects on the go. Ruby posts ALONE would be enough to keep me busy for the next year. ARGH!</em> Hey, cleaning the bathroom counts. And writing is not a linear process. It ebbs and flows, you can’t swim against it without winding up with a snootful of theoretical salt water. Pick a pen and go with the flow.

Les Says: No kidding, writing is not linear…! Which explains why I have all the half-finished projects on the go. Ruby posts ALONE would be enough to keep me busy for the next year. ARGH!

]]> By: Denise http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/22/the-whatth-of-september/comment-page-1/#comment-12245 Denise Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:49:00 +0000 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=328#comment-12245 I find that type of purging to be a good first step to making time and space for oneself, Les. You are on the right road. <em>Les Says: Thanks, Denise - I believe that, too. Now, to avoid the bumps! ;-) </em> I find that type of purging to be a good first step to making time and space for oneself, Les. You are on the right road.

Les Says: Thanks, Denise – I believe that, too. Now, to avoid the bumps! ;-)

]]> By: Shrinky http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/22/the-whatth-of-september/comment-page-1/#comment-12242 Shrinky Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:34:07 +0000 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=328#comment-12242 Aw hon, it's so hard to keep running on empty all the time, we all do it, and it achieves little in the end. Sometimes we owe it to ourselves to simply let go and catch up with our mind. I read the frustration in your words, and completely understand where you are coming from. So much you want to do, achieve, it gets overwhelming just knowing where to start, huh? Doesn't help with all the constant day-to-day interruptions that get in the way - like earning a living, tending to the off-spring, cleaning and food shopping. The day is so easily swallowed up before it's begun. I make a thousand excuses not to do what I WANT to do. Difference is, I know it's a cycle, and it'll pass. You'll find your creative mode soon enough, you've already started.. just you wait and see. Big hugs bonny lass, go for the red pen, it's a kick-ass colour! <em>Les Says: Red it is. Thank you.</em> Aw hon, it’s so hard to keep running on empty all the time, we all do it, and it achieves little in the end. Sometimes we owe it to ourselves to simply let go and catch up with our mind. I read the frustration in your words, and completely understand where you are coming from. So much you want to do, achieve, it gets overwhelming just knowing where to start, huh?

Doesn’t help with all the constant day-to-day interruptions that get in the way – like earning a living, tending to the off-spring, cleaning and food shopping. The day is so easily swallowed up before it’s begun. I make a thousand excuses not to do what I WANT to do. Difference is, I know it’s a cycle, and it’ll pass. You’ll find your creative mode soon enough, you’ve already started.. just you wait and see. Big hugs bonny lass, go for the red pen, it’s a kick-ass colour!

Les Says: Red it is. Thank you.

]]> By: Jayne http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/22/the-whatth-of-september/comment-page-1/#comment-12227 Jayne Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:47:22 +0000 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=328#comment-12227 Loves me the Doctor Who theme...loves me David Tennant as Doctor Who, now that you mention it lol. Procrastination is good for the soul at times, it's our brains way of saying "sit down, have a cuppa and turn to jelly for a few months to recharge the batteries". Well, that's what my brain says to me lol ;) <em>Les Says: I've been "procrastinating it" for far too long, I'm afraid. Now I have no idea how to actually begin DOING anything.</em> Loves me the Doctor Who theme…loves me David Tennant as Doctor Who, now that you mention it lol.
Procrastination is good for the soul at times, it’s our brains way of saying “sit down, have a cuppa and turn to jelly for a few months to recharge the batteries”.
Well, that’s what my brain says to me lol ;)

Les Says: I’ve been “procrastinating it” for far too long, I’m afraid. Now I have no idea how to actually begin DOING anything.

]]> By: cardiogirl http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/22/the-whatth-of-september/comment-page-1/#comment-12219 cardiogirl Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:53:43 +0000 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=328#comment-12219 Hey woman! It sounds like you were able to do physically what I would like to do mentally. Step away from the stuff and see it for what it is, rather than what I thought it meant -- which are really two different things, in my case. Good luck getting jump started. Sometimes that's the hardest part and once you get going you wonder why you waited so long. Pick up the pen! (in a manner of speaking). <em>Les Says: You sound just like my dad, Cardiogirl - "If you want to do it, do it." He was right, of course, and so are you. Right now, it's kind of like, "Do I use the blue pen, or the red pen, or the green pen?" I seem to be making up my own problems as I go along.</em> Hey woman! It sounds like you were able to do physically what I would like to do mentally. Step away from the stuff and see it for what it is, rather than what I thought it meant — which are really two different things, in my case.

Good luck getting jump started. Sometimes that’s the hardest part and once you get going you wonder why you waited so long.

Pick up the pen! (in a manner of speaking).

Les Says: You sound just like my dad, Cardiogirl – “If you want to do it, do it.” He was right, of course, and so are you. Right now, it’s kind of like, “Do I use the blue pen, or the red pen, or the green pen?” I seem to be making up my own problems as I go along.

]]> By: Suzi http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/22/the-whatth-of-september/comment-page-1/#comment-12204 Suzi Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:54:37 +0000 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=328#comment-12204 Hey! You just started! You writed! I envy your August purge. There is truly freedom in letting go of stuff. It's liberating. I know this, and I do mini-purges, but it would feel so good to reeeallly get rid of stuff. Whee! <em>Les Says: I didn't find it so much a "Whee!" feeling as, oddly, a feeling like I was cleaning out someone else's closet. I think it bothered me that it didn't bother me, if that makes any sense at all... Hey! You're right! I writed! :-D </em> Hey! You just started! You writed!

I envy your August purge. There is truly freedom in letting go of stuff. It’s liberating. I know this, and I do mini-purges, but it would feel so good to reeeallly get rid of stuff. Whee!

Les Says: I didn’t find it so much a “Whee!” feeling as, oddly, a feeling like I was cleaning out someone else’s closet. I think it bothered me that it didn’t bother me, if that makes any sense at all…

Hey! You’re right! I writed! :-D

]]> By: Mushy http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/22/the-whatth-of-september/comment-page-1/#comment-12201 Mushy Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:11:52 +0000 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=328#comment-12201 Ruby speaks my language...I was raised on those kind of short-cut words! I've been wasting too...getting lazier than a summer dog and barely care. Oh, I think about it and wiggle my feet some, but that's about it. Of course my butt showing the result of all this slothfulness too! <em>Les Says: I've managed the 'thinking' part. Sigh...* </em> Ruby speaks my language…I was raised on those kind of short-cut words!

I’ve been wasting too…getting lazier than a summer dog and barely care. Oh, I think about it and wiggle my feet some, but that’s about it. Of course my butt showing the result of all this slothfulness too!

Les Says: I’ve managed the ‘thinking’ part. Sigh…*

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