Comments on: Empty Words

By: Sheila Atwood

Sheila Atwood — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:45:06 +0000

Recently I saw where someone asked a "famous" blogger when he blogged. His answer was great! "Whenever I have something to say." I am happy to say your blog is a blog I follow. I enjoy the great stories and your projects. I am interested in what you have to say. You are famous on my desk top! Sheila Sheila Atwoods last blog post..A Business In Digital Products The timing for your comment was absolutely perfect, Sheila. I was contemplating (after many WordPress woes) just dropping this whole blogging business. I have been pressuring myself to write when I didn't want to do so. I think I'll take the words of your "famous blogger" to heart. Thanks for dropping by, and thanks for your kind words.

By: Frances

Frances — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:32:36 +0000

Fabulous post - as far as I am converned you are a famous storyteller. The kids you work with will remember you for years to come. Waving at you wildly from New York, Frances Francess last blog post..Big Nick’s Pizza Joint - an Upper West Side tradition They won't remember my name, or maybe even what I looked like. But, some of them will remember the stories all their lives. That's worth more than the fame any day of the week. Waving right back, from Texas.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:41:27 +0000

It's a bit of a catch 22 isn't it, the way youth is wasted on the young? When you're young you've got the energy and the drive but you haven't learned quite what to do with it yet, and you don't yet have the vast array of life experiences that help you figure it out. Great post Shelly, very thought provoking. Robins last blog post..Impromptu Math Lesson Catch 22, indeed. Thanks for the kudos. I'm admiring that you are getting out into the wide world to take photos. Another form of artistry that feeds our ability to tell stories.

By: Jessica The Rock Chick

Jessica The Rock Chick — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:54:28 +0000

Love this post!!! I haven't been blogging, as you know, because I wasn't able to sit at my computer. I didn't exactly trade that time for "living" as I spent most of it flat on my back watching bad TV shows. When I checked my technorati score, it was 19. Can you believe it? I thought about all that A-list stuff and it dawned on me that not only didn't I care that my score was 19, I realized that I'd rather read the comments from my dozen or so regular readers than "great post" from 100 blog hoppers. I am actually working on saying something like this in my next post! GMTA sista!!! Jessica The Rock Chicks last blog post..Back In Black

By: Marcia

Marcia — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:35:55 +0000

I understand, in theory, what you are saying, but from my side of the equation, I want to remember the storyteller as much as I want to remember the story. Yes, I want to feel the life experience behind the storyteller, just as I want to hear a singer ‘emote’ the song, not just sing the notes. Telling a story well is like singing a song well, vast differences in performances and whether they evoke emotion. Agreed.

I do beg to differ that some could tell stories and evoke the emotions necessary – at an early age and without as much life experience – though probably only the more instinctive person.

Marcias last blog post..Don’t Tell Me What to Do!

We don’t differ. I fully believe that we can “emote” without life experience. But, a storyteller writes the words to fit their own mouths…so they have to have something worthwhile to say. Good storytellers aren’t working from a “script.” That said, there are some folks who are excellent at writing the stories and have absolutely no stage presence. Life doesn’t play fair sometimes.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:32:00 +0000

Your comment about blogging me reminded me of the line in the movie "You've Got Mail" when Meg Ryan's character said, "Everything I see reminds me of something I read in a book. Shouldn't it be the other way around?" I agree with you...Now you have enough experiences to have something to say. Time and season. That's an important part of the writing and I assume story-telling experience! Stacys last blog post..Contentment Yep. A story can be "performed" by just about anybody. Writing it to have some kind of meaning demands that we understand a little about the big wide world.