Comments on: Writing Strengths

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:34:27 +0000

I appreciate your honesty about your fiction writing. I myself have drawn great strength from authors such as Gaiman, Pratchett, and one other more recent author, David Dent of Alex Webster and The Gods. He is a wonderful author who had inspired my creative juices to flow agian.

By: qazse

qazse — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:34:53 +0000

PS – re Mine?

Some might see the last three are weaknesses. To each his own.

By: qazse

qazse — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:29:56 +0000

“and not have them come to me three days later, when I’m making brownies and don’t have a pen handy.”

I think your sense of humor is also a strength!

peace and love

Mine?
love doing it
persistence
straightforwardness
social consciousness
brevity

By: Kristin Ohlson

Kristin Ohlson — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:29:59 +0000

Love your list, bloglily, and glad to see a new post from you (you may have been posting for quite a while, but I’ve been an infrequent blog traveler lately). I’ll have to think about my writing strengths. Lately, I’ve only been aware of the flaws– but that’s a bad habit to get into.

By: the individual voice (Tiv)

the individual voice (Tiv) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:57:12 +0000

I love the one of banging two heterogeneous things together and immediately thing of you writing about Italy while looking out the window in Honolulu.

By: Ben Daniel

Ben Daniel — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:19:51 +0000

Here are thee of my writing strengths:

1. I forget words all of the time and I have to come up with creative ways articulating the meaning of the words I have forgotten. This makes me seem more eloquent than I am in real life.

2. In my wife I have an excellent and enthusiastic editor. For us, my writing is a cottage industry.

3. There is a wonderful cafe in San Jose’s “Little Portugal,” where I go to write. Usually I am the only patron who doesn’t speak Portugese, so that the noise of television on the wall, and the banter around me captures my attention but doesn’t hold it for long. It is perfect for an easily distracted person like me.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:50:55 +0000

And by “out of the box” I meant “outside the box,” obviously. Stupid overused clichés.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:48:37 +0000

Hey BlogLily! Don’t think I’ve commented here before.

Just an addendum to (4) you may or not be aware of–but interesting nonetheless. By age five, children have already learnt over 40 vowels and consonants, over 300 ways of combining them to produce syllables, and dozens of patterns of stress and tones of voice. And by three, most children have already mastered the basic pronunciation system. Even at only one year old, before learning to speak, babies learn a lot about sounds, particularly basic phonetic functions, as a base on which to start learning to speak. Even as young as two months, babies are learning to perceive different tones of voices.

I find language acquisition in babies and children fascinating, personally. (And have read loads about it–I could go on about it all day.)

Just thought you might find that interesting.

Anyway. Strengths? I don’t know–I think I’m more aware of my weaknesses. But that would be a huge cop-out. I guess I’m pretty adept at finding creative and “out of the box” approaches to writing about otherwise mundane situations (something that, I think, keeps my blog just barely above the uninteresting mark).

By: bloglily

bloglily — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:25:59 +0000

Hello Nova, Love being all we need, I am glad I managed to work that in there somewhere.

Hey Eli, How nice to see you here too. I do think there’s something to persistence, and am working diligently to prove that if you just stick to something, you will get better at it.

Litlove, I’m glad to hear you say that. Sometimes it gets a little grim around here, and I have to actually lower myself to point out that I have just MADE A JOKE. The delayed, pained, fake laughter that ensues is never really all that satisfying.

By: litlove

litlove — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:43:15 +0000

Loved your answers, dear BL, but you forgot one, I think: you’re very, very amusing. Being able to bring a compassionate sense of humour to just about any occasion is one of the qualities I love most in your writing.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:34:54 +0000

Lovely. I love no 2, and I love no 4. It’s true isn’t it: the things that differentiate successful people from all the has beens is that successful people never, ever give up.

Good luck. Glad to see you back in the 9rules writing section.

By: nova

nova — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:22:48 +0000

Great list, BL! Your #5: Love. I think that’s the most important.