Comments on: Monthly Wrap: When Patience is Required

By: Carolyn_Burns_Bass

Carolyn_Burns_Bass — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:21:10 +0000

We are so glad you didn’t quit LitPark. You have a gift for creating community.

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:58:08 +0000

Yeah, the weekly schedule and finishing the book were incompatible. But if I quit completely, I’d get so depressed from missing you guys, I couldn’t write at all.

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:36:38 +0000

If you want to know the kinds of songs Steelers fans know by heart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naaU8YHvoGc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At69PJ3ymIg

By: Carolyn_Burns_Bass

Carolyn_Burns_Bass — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:05:55 +0000

Part of the truth here, Susan, is how difficult it is to separate the “belief in their ability” with “belief in oneself.” While a person can believe they are a good writer, there is nothing they can do to convince others except to write. People can write and write and write some more, but it’s the grandstanding that one does to get noticed that is so exhausting.

I imagine the word olympics you described above is one of the reasons why LitPark went from a weekly to a monthly. While everything you’ve produced here is great stuff, your personal writing–the stories and dreams and imaginings of the night–was falling behind.

By: Carolyn_Burns_Bass

Carolyn_Burns_Bass — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:56:01 +0000

I missed the deadline on this, but what a hoot they were to read!

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:03:26 +0000

Woke up this morning feeling like it’s Christmas all over again – the eve of Obama’s inauguration and Steelers have a shot at their sixth Super Bowl ring. Wow.

Fun Steelers trivia. When I was in HS, I used to work out in the weight room after school with Reggie Harrison (our gym teacher/football coach, and winner of 2 Steelers Super Bowl rings and responsible for the safety in Super Bowl X). Babysat Franco Harris’s son once when Franco was helping out with an MS marathon. And when I was very very pregnant with Bach Boy, I nearly rolled down the hill at Steelers training camp in LaTrobe because the hill was that steep and I was that round.

Anyway, very very happy, and thanks to all of you who sent me notes this morning and last night.

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:42:32 +0000

My kids’ band horsing around at open mic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO5eDTBkpKs

Mine are the two on the right.

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:54:01 +0000

Some day when you can find an hour and a half, make an outline of a book about autism you think you might have in you – fiction or non-fiction – just to see what’s there, and where the gaps are (either in interest or information you still need to learn)

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:50:27 +0000

This is so real, Gail. And familiar. Because what makes a writer write? Often the very fact that they’re introverted or don’t believe in themselves or can’t say the things they need to say out loud. And so what do we ask of writers? That they become athletic, ballsy extroverts, selling themselves, giving public readings, sustaining a belief in their ability for years and even decades. It asks what we’re barely able to give, and that asks that we sustain that very thing some more.

By: SusanHenderson

SusanHenderson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:45:26 +0000

Bach-Boy is playing Bach’s Toccata and Fugue (the fugue part) on the piano right now. And at the very same moment, Green-Hand is playing Gimme Shelter on the electric guitar. So forgive me if my brain shorts out and gives a bad link, but if this works, it’s really funny.

http://theswivet.blogspot.com/2009/01/contest-query-in-140-characters-or-less.html

You can pitch this agent if you can keep your description to 140 characters or less.