Comments on: Oh That Tara Joyce, She’s Such a Phony Baloney

By: Tara Joyce

Tara Joyce — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:41:14 +0000

Jan, my pleasure, my sincere pleasure. I am honoured that you connect
with my words so deeply.

By: groovy_granny

groovy_granny — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:27:20 +0000

I arrived here at this astonishing and wonderful blog this morning by following a link on @joannayoung's blog. As I read each article I feel an increasing sense of, well I guess you'd call it relief, as I discover that there are ways of saying what I feel. Ways that chime for me. Thank you :)

By: Jaxxy

Jaxxy — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:04:35 +0000

“A writer is someone whose good review is awaited most anxiously, and is accepted most reverently.”…?

Arg!

=D.

By: Jaxxy

Jaxxy — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:48:11 +0000

I wonder if there's a better way to phrase that 'A Writer Is...' quote? Sometimes the wording trips me up -- perhaps because its creator's first language was not English. My humble Self shall try, anyway.

"The writer in the room is the one who is most critical about others' writings." No, that sounds mean!... and it doesn't always follow. Humm...

"You can tell which one is the writer -- she's the one you've got stuck in the back of your mind. She's the one you're really trying to please, impress, or outdo with your own writing."
Long... and too informal...

"A writer is easily distinguished; she is the one whose opinion really matters to other writers."
Maybe close, but has a negative tone to it...

"A writer is a person whose good reviews we await the most anxiously, and accept with the most awe."
Okay, enough, I'll have to live with that one!

See? You're a writer, Tara. See how I wanted to get it just right for you!

<3,
Jaxxy. =)

By: Tara Joyce

Tara Joyce — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:05:03 +0000

Hehe, I like that quote. Thank you, Jaxxy.

By: Jaxxy

Jaxxy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:45:45 +0000

Amen, sista! TESTIFAH, haha. Yup-yup, the “different” people have always been (and duly felt) ostracized. For this and a million other reasons, I, too, am “all tingly” — waiting for the world to change, with bated breath. Is there a place for us in the newer world?

But… maybe it's “bad” to wait for world acceptance. Self-limiting, too… good point! I guess it's another one of those newfangled balance problems. Maybe we can't have our cake — be quite unique, unexpected — and eat it too — be not-”alone” because of it. If we become “normal” then we won't be “special” anymore (like everybody else! LOL).

Enough with the philosophizing, Me! All I really meant to share is a quote a writer-but-is-she-really? friend of mine shared with me some time ago. I just looked it up, and it seems Thomas Mann said it:
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

It works!

<3,
Jaxxy. =)

By: Tara Joyce

Tara Joyce — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:20:09 +0000

Luna, I hear you! I've always felt very alone… but it is so cool to
be learning just how not alone I actually am. I get to now write and
connect with people like you who feel exactly the same way I do. It's
wonderful.

By: Luna

Luna — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:43:44 +0000

What a relief to find that I'm not the only person in the world who thinks this way! I'm finding more and more people like me, and now I know I'm not crazy. I'm different than most people I have known, but always felt like it was because there was something wrong with me, and that I needed to be like everyone else. In trying to conform, it was always a “FAIL” which made ME feel like a FAIL. It was a fail because I'm not supposed to be like anyone else. Thank you!