tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941881639491756278.post7316615651736678119..comments2023-06-11T12:13:23.085+00:00Comments on Writing: The Boot Camp Diaries: A Risky BusinessThe Boot Camp Diarieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553474526217476846noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941881639491756278.post-78097417686123603722007-05-23T12:35:00.000+00:002007-05-23T12:35:00.000+00:00Good God. I can't imagine EVER getting to the begi...Good God. I can't imagine EVER getting to the beginning of the long road where I'd be able to see a glimmer of the hang of things from the other end.<BR/><BR/>If you ever got the hang of things you'd die of boredom.<BR/><BR/>Isn't it curiosity that keeps people young? Like deciding to enter your painting childhood now, and see everything through a pair of fresh eyes ...Lexiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242416218019489078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941881639491756278.post-90459288145489585352007-05-23T12:25:00.000+00:002007-05-23T12:25:00.000+00:00Blind Stag*All things are connected, I think. I ke...Blind Stag*<BR/><BR/><BR/>All things are connected, I think. I keep feeling Big G is going to tap me on the shoulder and say time's up.<BR/><BR/>But he CAN'T. I'm just about to get a hang of things.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>* No Eye DeerThe Boot Camp Diarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10553474526217476846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941881639491756278.post-37322619502096413092007-05-23T12:22:00.000+00:002007-05-23T12:22:00.000+00:00I heard Brendel play in Edinburgh in the early 70s...I heard Brendel play in Edinburgh in the early 70s, and it really was a risky business. He'd just returned to performing after a breakdown, and he came in looking frail, shaky, totally un-together. But once he started playing it was as if the music was pulling him along rather than vice versa. It felt like it was a combined force of will by the audience that got him through the first piece. <BR/><BR/>I believe he's mainly self-taught, and isn't he a poet as well? I wonder if any of his poetry's on the net.Lexiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242416218019489078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-941881639491756278.post-71166561464709142792007-05-23T12:15:00.000+00:002007-05-23T12:15:00.000+00:00Briefly, this is why I believe in the Boot Camp pr...<I>Briefly, this is why I believe in the Boot Camp process. I believe that at least 99% of wanabee writers write far too little. In surveys I've done the average for writers at conferences was 147 words a day (and remember they are probably exaggerating their word-counts.)</I><BR/><BR/>I should be clearer! I mean, when I ask at conferences (and these are committed writers) they report that over the past weeks/moth they have written an average of 147 words a day or 1,029 a week.<BR/><BR/>At the conference they usually write nowt.The Boot Camp Diarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10553474526217476846noreply@blogger.com