Comments on: Manics, writers, and bloggers

By: dan richards

dan richards — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:40:16 +0000

This blog is entertaining, but I think I have the author of the opening letter in a gramatical error of her own, or an act of laziness, or both; to wit: “… still looking to “find myself,” careerwise….”
Unless things have changed rastically, “careerwise” is not a word. Rather, it represents a sloppy way of saying something more concise, like “…still searching for my eventual career.”

Couldn’t resist.

Thanks for listening; good for my ego.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Logic and philosophy allows one to generate and maintain ideas, by attaching them to real life events, such as changing the diapers and family. This allows the ability to allow one’s subconscious to think up an idea, and then to have the conscious mind form connections in order to remember the idea and to form it into a more substantial shape.

Then all it would need to further encapsulate the idea is to write it down. To temper it upon the anvil of concept.

By: Wacky Hermit

Wacky Hermit — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

My biggest roadblock to being a blogger is that I think of all sorts of insightful ways to say all my wonderful original ideas, but I do it while I’m in the middle of driving, or changing a diaper, or cooking dinner. By the time I can get to a computer (or even find a pen) to write them down, my brain is completely blank. So I end up blogging about my kids and my life instead, which makes my blog incredibly boring and totally uninsightful.

By: triticale

triticale — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

I have myself worked as a blacksmith, and would love to return to it under different circumstances. The one time I took one of those career selection tests, the result was that I should be a priest or minister – and I was a devout agnostic at the time.

I’ve noticed that bloggers who display their Meyer Briggs tend to be INTPs. I don’t know if this says anything about bloggers, or if displaying ones score is an INTP thing, like the way Pisces tend not to believe in astrology.

By: Norma

Norma — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

This has been really helpful. Now when people ask why I have 6 blogs (or is it 7) I can say I have ideaphoria. I took the Network test (Zondervan) and I scored very high in Wisdom, Prophecy and Administration. Blogging is a good outlet for those “gifts.”

By: Goesh

Goesh — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

-blogs have replaced my paper note pad and fountain pen – I would sit for long periods of time, jotting thoughts, starting a story, a poem, sipping coffee, finishing some – I liked to jot and write in a cafe and had 3-4 of them that I would frequent – I always wondered if the waitress’ were jealous that I had the freedom and time to sit like that in a cafe for a couple of hours, writing, observing people, thinking, but I never dared ask them, instead I would leave them a nice tip – I miss the fountain pen, I really do – There is just something about a quality fountain pen with a fine point and the flow of ink, a satisfaction this machine does not provide, yet the flow of words is so much faster with a machine.

I probably should have been a blacksmith and not what I am at present and not all that I have done, so many, many things in so many different places. There is something even more alive in hot iron, more so than the flow of ink. No test or vocational profile has ever shown that I am a secret blacksmith, a closet heater and pounder and shaper of iron, but I know it is true. I have seen it come alive and done some shaping but a few times in my life.

By: Judith

Judith — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

“How can I know what I think until I see what I say?”

The Myers-Briggs definition of an extrovert.

By: Judith

Judith — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

"quite a few jokes tossed around about having mild touches of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder),"

Not ADD? The description of mania sounds like ADD, and bi-polar and ADD overlap to some extent.

I make notes in unpublished blog posts.

By: jack

jack — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

My experience in the blogosphere is that 90% or more have nothing “new” to say. They simply repackage what the 10% that does have an “original” thought into something they think is important. I fall in the 90% category. neo-neocon falls in the 10% category.

Keep up the good work. You make me want to be a better blogger!

By: camojack

camojack — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

“My home, my car, my purse, my countertops, my drawers–all are littered with little scraps of paper on which are written sentence fragments, notes for posts I haven’t written yet. My guess is that that is true of most bloggers.”

I rely on my memory for the most part, and/or search engines. Besides, I have no car (just my Harley and my truck) or purse. I’ve only been posting about once per week, but I just posted twice in one day…I might be in trouble here.