Comments on: Changing Both My Minds

By: Kat Tansey

Kat Tansey — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:29:38 +0000

Thank you for your comment, Jenna. I suspect there are many of us who have “corporate minds” bullying our playful, creative selves. Time to come out and play in the sun!!!

By: Jenna Avery

Jenna Avery — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:51:40 +0000

Kat, your post touched something deep for me — some secret dreams my inner critic steers me away from and my “corporate” (love that) mind thinks have to wait, until…?

Thank you!!

With love and delight,
Jenna Avery
http://www.JennaAvery.com

By: Kat Tansey

Kat Tansey — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:33:39 +0000

Thank you, Jamie, for taking time to write. I encourage you to keep at it — just talk to the page about what you’re feeling.

I made a comment on a blog the other day about something that really pushed my buttons, and got on a bit of a rant. It was early and I had 2 cups of coffee, so I really got fired up. After I posted it, I thought I had been a bit too strident, not understanding enough, i.e. I wasn’t the perfect, kind, wise person that I would love to be — all the time.

Not possible. No one is like that. We forget that, don’t we? Anyway, the responses to my comment were all favorable, many people felt the same way and where glad to see someone saying it.

Now I am not recommending rants, but I do find that the posts where I am most vulnerable and open are usually the ones that people comment on.

Stick your toe in, Jamie, the water’s fine. . .

Love and Light,
Kat

By: Jamie Velasco

Jamie Velasco — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:21:41 +0000

Dear Kat-

I really enjoyed reading your post. Sometimes I feel kind of similar to you. I´ve just started my Blog and during the mornings I sit right in front of my laptop, take a deep breath, look around my house and garden, feel the fresh air of day break and start typing fiercly. But what about my heart feelings? Those vital feelings that are my true self don´t come out as I would like to.

I congratulate you in sharing your true thoughts. It´s NOT that common now a days to find somebody bearing naked feelings. We all want to show our selves strong, flawless and unbeatable.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful insights. I encourage you to keep that way.

Kisses and blessings,

Jamie Velasco
Twitter ID: EMPOWERurPOWER

By: Magic in Words « On Not Being Able to Write

Magic in Words « On Not Being Able to Write — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:00:33 +0000

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By: Kat Tansey

Kat Tansey — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:45:08 +0000

Thank you for your high praise, Ellan. And you are right, my first sentence is ironic — my little writer voice has learned not to whine, so she defuses her whining by calling it research. She is great at going underground and particularly adept at passive resistance. (Grin)

One thing I’ve learned about my inner critic is that I must allow myself to write exactly what I want to write in my first draft — as though I am writing for a friend who finds me funny, witty, engaging, open, and whatever other attributes I wish to cloak myself in that day.

Then I let the inner critic take a look and mark it up. BUT, I don’t always pay attention to her advice — instead, I think about where her voice is coming from (and often it is a parent, a critical teacher, a critical “friend”) and determine whether I really care about what that voice says. Usually not.

I take risks, I reveal my imperfections, I don’t always write perfect English, I make mistakes — and you know what, people respond more favorably than if I am “trying” to be everything that inner critic desires.

It has taken me many years to let my hair down, and no one is going to make me put it back up again, figuratively speaking of course.

By: ellanbethia

ellanbethia — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:15:17 +0000

I find your first sentence ironic in a funny way.
Of course your writer self is whining; she has a right to. She wants to write for pleasure, not on assignment. As she says, she’d done a lot of that already. Yet I suspect that she has a lot of exciting ideas that she wants to share with others; I can tell by the tone of her voice.
She also knows that coming up with a post idea and fleshing it out every single day is hard work.
This writer self sympathizes, although she has a different problem. Oh, she can come up with ideas for daily posts, but she can’t write posts as engaging as yours.
I look forward to reading more (and learning from your example).