Comments for Polish and Publish | Tools and Tactics for Creative Writers http://lynettebentonwriting.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Michele Chiappetta: Balancing Business and Creative Writing by Lynette Benton http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/12/michele-chiappetta-balancing-business-and-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-11433 Lynette Benton Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:31:14 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=3136#comment-11433 I feel as you do, Michele. And I thank *you* for sharing your challenges with us. I feel as you do, Michele. And I thank *you* for sharing your challenges with us.

]]> Comment on Leslie Fulton: Juggling Business and Creative Writing by Lynette Benton http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/12/leslie-fulton-juggling-business-and-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-11432 Lynette Benton Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:30:21 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=3150#comment-11432 Thank you, Mike, for your comment. Thank you, Mike, for your comment.

]]> Comment on Michele Chiappetta: Balancing Business and Creative Writing by Lynette Benton http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/12/michele-chiappetta-balancing-business-and-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-11431 Lynette Benton Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:29:40 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=3136#comment-11431 Thank you, Joan. I'm glad you could relate. Thank you, Joan. I’m glad you could relate.

]]> Comment on Michele Chiappetta: Balancing Business and Creative Writing by Joan http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/12/michele-chiappetta-balancing-business-and-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-11323 Joan Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:21:09 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=3136#comment-11323 As a full-time freelance writer, I think Michele's story is pretty typical. The more business writing I do for a regular paycheck, the less likely I am to sit down and do creative writing. However, the fact that I do write every day in some capacity makes any extra writing a bit easier to squeeze in. Good post. As a full-time freelance writer, I think Michele’s story is pretty typical. The more business writing I do for a regular paycheck, the less likely I am to sit down and do creative writing. However, the fact that I do write every day in some capacity makes any extra writing a bit easier to squeeze in. Good post.

]]> Comment on Guest Post by Author Lisa Dale Norton by Linda Gartz http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/11/guest-post-by-author-lisa-dale-norton/comment-page-1/#comment-11270 Linda Gartz Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:06:02 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=2876#comment-11270 I'm getting to this late, but so glad I found it. I've been working on these very issues: structure, finding the bigger picture--what my memoir or essays as I write them, are really ABOUT. This brings me to Vivian Gornick's essential "The Situation and the Story," and William Zinsser's advice, so similar to Lisa's above -- write what you remember and after you've written a bunch of memories -- take a look at them. The memory is telling you there's a reason you remember that incident/event- an underlying emotional meaning. Then look at all the pieces and see what emerges. Maybe a theme will arise -- and you can then strive to pull it together. That's the leap of faith, I believe Lisa is talking about. Thanks for this inspiring post. I’m getting to this late, but so glad I found it. I’ve been working on these very issues: structure, finding the bigger picture–what my memoir or essays as I write them, are really ABOUT. This brings me to Vivian Gornick’s essential “The Situation and the Story,” and William Zinsser’s advice, so similar to Lisa’s above — write what you remember and after you’ve written a bunch of memories — take a look at them. The memory is telling you there’s a reason you remember that incident/event- an underlying emotional meaning. Then look at all the pieces and see what emerges. Maybe a theme will arise — and you can then strive to pull it together. That’s the leap of faith, I believe Lisa is talking about. Thanks for this inspiring post.

]]> Comment on Leslie Fulton: Juggling Business and Creative Writing by Micki Peluso http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/12/leslie-fulton-juggling-business-and-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-11241 Micki Peluso Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:41:09 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=3150#comment-11241 Lynette, I read a few of your blogs and enjoyed them. I remember when just getting published was such a high, but that soon grew stale when getting paid was so much better. Plus it made me feel like the professional I am. Marketing a book is even harder, especially in an economy like this and it's easy to get discouraged--until someone writes and says your book changed their life. Money somehow doesn't matter so much then. Micki Peluso, author of. . .AND THE WHIPPOORWILL SANG, a humorous, poignant family story. Lynette,

I read a few of your blogs and enjoyed them. I remember when just getting published was such a high, but that soon grew stale when getting paid was so much better. Plus it made me feel like the professional I am. Marketing a book is even harder, especially in an economy like this and it’s easy to get discouraged–until someone writes and says your book changed their life. Money somehow doesn’t matter so much then.

Micki Peluso, author of. . .AND THE WHIPPOORWILL SANG, a humorous, poignant family story.

]]> Comment on Michele Chiappetta: Balancing Business and Creative Writing by Michele http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/12/michele-chiappetta-balancing-business-and-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-11057 Michele Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:20:21 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=3136#comment-11057 Thanks for featuring me, Lynette. And thanks for the comments, Linda. I don't know how it is that I don't burn out, except that I really love writing and it's one of the things I was born to do. So somehow when I do it, it's invigorating. I guess that's lucky, huh? Thanks for featuring me, Lynette. And thanks for the comments, Linda. I don’t know how it is that I don’t burn out, except that I really love writing and it’s one of the things I was born to do. So somehow when I do it, it’s invigorating. I guess that’s lucky, huh?

]]> Comment on Michele Chiappetta: Balancing Business and Creative Writing by Linda Gartz http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/12/michele-chiappetta-balancing-business-and-creative-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-11028 Linda Gartz Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:57:45 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=3136#comment-11028 Dear Lynette, Thanks so much for publishing this enlightening and inspiring post. I can identify with the "exhausting" part of writing for a living and then trying creative writing. In fact, I would think Michelle would "burn out" from all that writing. The "writing every day" aspect is so critical; it's the only way to become good; or at least writing on a regular schedule. I like the flash drive idea. Clever and productive. I have an editor friend who is so busy with her own writing and her genealogy work that she divides her days into very specific tasks: and writes each down on a calendar page for the following month. She can only write for her own projects (she writes other's family histories and does genealogy work) on Saturdays and says its "sacrosanct." Nov-Dec Poets and Writers Mag had an excellent article by Ellen Sussman (NYT best-selling author) pg 25 caleed "A Writer's Daily Habit" It's worth checking out. t\Thanks again. Dear Lynette,
Thanks so much for publishing this enlightening and inspiring post. I can identify with the “exhausting” part of writing for a living and then trying creative writing. In fact, I would think Michelle would “burn out” from all that writing. The “writing every day” aspect is so critical; it’s the only way to become good; or at least writing on a regular schedule. I like the flash drive idea. Clever and productive. I have an editor friend who is so busy with her own writing and her genealogy work that she divides her days into very specific tasks: and writes each down on a calendar page for the following month. She can only write for her own projects (she writes other’s family histories and does genealogy work) on Saturdays and says its “sacrosanct.” Nov-Dec Poets and Writers Mag had an excellent article by Ellen Sussman (NYT best-selling author) pg 25 caleed “A Writer’s Daily Habit” It’s worth checking out. t\Thanks again.

]]> Comment on The Man Cave Craze by Lynette Benton http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/12/the-man-cave-craze/comment-page-1/#comment-10494 Lynette Benton Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:44:56 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=3008#comment-10494 That's exactly what I thought. Something seems unpleasant (and overly entitled) about it. Would this husband and father rather not be at home at all? That’s exactly what I thought. Something seems unpleasant (and overly entitled) about it. Would this husband and father rather not be at home at all?

]]> Comment on How to Stay Inspired to Write by Lynette Benton http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2011/09/how-to-stay-inspired-to-write/comment-page-1/#comment-10493 Lynette Benton Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:40:41 +0000 http://lynettebentonwriting.com/?p=2477#comment-10493 Thank you, Josephine. You're right. Thank you, Josephine. You’re right.

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