tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post8886669591426144129..comments2024-02-10T02:12:10.516-08:00Comments on CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE: Why writers need blindersCarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02724359857107668407noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post-28364100906503323342009-07-14T08:26:35.740-07:002009-07-14T08:26:35.740-07:00Keep those blinders on, Caroline. I love your nove...Keep those blinders on, Caroline. I love your novels!!!Jessica Keenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16105018807863798940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post-85303291868191179202009-07-09T12:02:39.739-07:002009-07-09T12:02:39.739-07:00I advise the kind of night I just had: Jon and I w...I advise the kind of night I just had: Jon and I went out to see Dennis Brennan, a musician we love. He had a brush with fame in the '80s. Now his son's band is probably better known. But Dennis is the real deal: a hardworking artist who does it because he's born to. He may never be famous (again), but he has a reliable audience who appreciates incredibly well crafted and well performed rock 'n' roll. And he shows no signs of stopping. I find this incredibly inspiring.<br /><br />Though of course both you and I will become famous!Clea Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10810838253598050028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post-34173043267071120392009-07-08T16:36:11.276-07:002009-07-08T16:36:11.276-07:00Donigan, I loved your very bracing post and your a...Donigan, I loved your very bracing post and your advice. I'm saving it.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02724359857107668407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post-70635585790513235052009-07-08T14:32:00.186-07:002009-07-08T14:32:00.186-07:00Caroline you are fabulous!! Don't change a thi...Caroline you are fabulous!! Don't change a thing.<br /><br />I am one of those "neater" artists with the less "cluttered" home. But remember, it is because my brain can only handle so much chaos, so much uncertainty after a lifetime of uncertainty as an actor and writer, that if I can organize it, or in other words dominate and control it...I will! Even if if it is just the way I stack my books, or the order of my clothes in my closet. <br /><br />And of course I am so easily tempted on hard days of writing, like today, that a bag of miscellaneous things that is lying in my office cupboard is calling out my name. It does not need to be organized, but it can be, and like a crazy organizationally obsessed person I hear it calling my name!<br /><br />And if you ever want your place organized, just invite me over, give me a big cup of coffee, put on some music and let me go for 5 hours :)Gina Sorellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15651102053639300887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396875931357506685.post-71293998434255147472009-07-08T13:58:53.694-07:002009-07-08T13:58:53.694-07:00It is more than dangerous for any artist of any va...It is more than dangerous for any artist of any variety to compare his or herself with any other artist to any degree, even the most trivial, in spite of what I suppose are natural curiosities and desires; it is self-destructive. My advice, unasked for, is stop doing it. You are on your own, and if you thought you couldn't handle being on your own, you would not have chosen this way of occupying your life. Now, would you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com