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161 comments? What is that?

Hmmm...shameful?

"Well at least you guys nicely transitioned from Huh to Sphuh…I was fading fast when that was occurring."

Yeah, what's up with that, SJ Jim? Is this because of the illness? Or because you feel like you should like, have a social life outside your computer or something? Getting too good for us shed dwellers?

What do you want to bet Jack is in his shed tonight with the walking stick?

Er, I meant talking stick. Maybe he's walking the talking stick.

'Perhaps we have to get over nostalgia for the “Best thread ever” before we can see what this new thread can even be. Its like starting a new painting. At first it feels sterile, or disconnected, or artificial comared to the one you were so immersed in just before"

Okay, okay. I'll buy that.

So is this like performance art? Or is it some new art form? A fusion of words and bytes and human interaction? An internet installation piece?

Jack and his rantings and ravings...

At some point, it seems to me, the freakish number of posts Huh could take on will serve as a draw to onlookers. Like a train wreck, and they'll be willing to wait for the reload just to see what all the hubbub is about. I prefer a bit more anonymity.

But, since Huh hasn't died yet...

I do like that idea of unreachability though...

"I like the level of sheer PAIN involved in posting, and how it might transform and or “fuse” with the experience of trying to communicate in this context?"

You're a masochist, aren't you?

"“Huh?” as “Shed”? "

Do you really want all that Sphuh in your shed?

So is your shed wired yet? Are you actually participating in the Huh-as-shed thread FROM the shed?

Behave yourself over there on my writing blog!

Doesn't this thread feel kind of musty or something?

Or dank. I love that word, dank.

LOL, I can always DELETE you. Oh the power of running a blog.

Just joking.

Oh, so my poor pitiful no-one comments blog needs my friends to "create interest?" LOL, I should just turn off the comments option. It's sad really, how few people actually comment. And they're all people who know me.

I'm such a dummy, I registered for this site back when HARM put out a call for everyone to post a thread, but then I forgot I was supposed to ask for a password, I guess? So I can't log on. Well, I can never think of serious thread topics anyway. I'd just want to post something like "If you're going to park your wad somewhere, where would you park it?"

I think my mom reads my blog, and my husband does, but much of my family has only just discovered the internet and is still marveling over Ebay, and instant messaging, and stuff. They have not discovered blogs.

Forgot to say, hi SQT!

I started a family blog and no one visits it, LOL.

Just be careful not to shoot your wad on the wrong, um, investment...Property.

But it's okay, Jack, you should not feel inhibited from posting to my blog--just don't do any pity postings. That's just...humiliating. LOL.

Yeah, I hear you SQT. When we first moved to Germany, my husband deployed to Bosnia, and no one ever freaking called! I guess they figured the occasional email was enough.

I was joking, Jack. Really. I replied to you a little while ago and made a goat joke.

You are welcome to post there, SQT! I did write a few writing articles in the past month or so that are posted there. But if you post on old theads there, I likely won't notice...blogger is supposed to notify me when there's a new post but it never does. So I only ever look at the latest threads.

I think people just couldn't figure out the time zone thing.

If it weren't for WTF, I'd never say anything at all.

"So I guess I have now posted on a total of TWO blogs. "

Didn't you post on Surfer X's blog? We should go troll him.

Except now surely isn't a good time to be smart-ass trolls, if the poor cat is still missing.

I just checked--no new posts there.

If there is an option of posting as Anonymous, that's the only trick to posting without having to register.

But I think blog owners have the option of allowing only registered users to post.

I'm off to watch Seven Samurai. It has subtitles so I can't blog and watch. Good night!

Wholly cow this thread took off today. See what happens when I leave the house.... Well I'm actually going to go back & read all the nights posts...for better or worse. Looks like a lot of 1:1 btwn SQT & Jack. I should make it to the bottom in about 20 minutes but it looks like noone's here now LOL.

You also have to find a way to maintain the excitement long enough to finish what you started. Now that’s the hard part
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Need to limber the fingers up.

To bad this isn't the Huh?-thread...oh the fun that' could've been had!

Nice discussions on art/writing. It's good exposure...my mind's stuck with tech/science too much. I'd like to see Jamie's blog, too. I've also tried to register just for posting to the blogspot blogs & found that it wanted me to create my own blog site.

SQT, I know you won't read this tonight, but I noticed you mention fantasy novels, and that you're writing something fantasy-detective hybrid. Sound good! Did you ever read Stephen R. Donaldson? I like reading his books when I was a kid (along with the usual tolkien, and some others I can't remeber). More recently, I've read a lot of Neil Stephenson. Ever read anything by him?

Oops that NeAl Stephenson.

SQT, regarding Stephenson. Probably more male-oriented...but IMO his best book is Cryptonomicon which is sort of sci-fi computer-geek type stuff...not exactly sci-fi...it's something that could take place today (or more likely ~1999 at peak of dot.bomb). It also is neat in that it switches back & forth between stories taking place "today" and during WWII, with the characters in the "today" story being related to thos in the WWII story.

His recent work...which I'm just now finishing, is a trio of 800-900 page books that are very hard reading. I don't know if they're just not that good, or if I'm too mentally lazy to read them. The story *should* be interesting...at least it's about interesting things. It takes place in ~1600's & has character's such as Isaac Newton and Willhelm Leibniz in it. It's about many things...including the beginnings of currency and world trade (think "dutch east-india trading company", etc.). Mostly the books focus on behind the scenes players that manipulate the kings, queens, dukes & duchesses...including one particularly powerful character...a women who's economic prowess & market manipulation skills are way ahead of her time. Well, something to look for.
Didn't I read once that you liked the John Sandford "prey" novels?

hmmmm...let's see... how about Marion Zimmer Bradley...Mists of Avalaon. Wow I can't believe I remember that.

Jamie Says:

Yeah, what’s up with that, SJ Jim? Is this because of the illness? Or because you feel like you should like, have a social life outside your computer or something? Getting too good for us shed dwellers?

Oops, almost forgot! Answers in order:
I don't know; to some extent; that's debatable; definitely not.
Well, another factor is the ongoing recovery from a 3rd saga w/my ex-fiance (disengaged 18 months ago). Funny thing is, I can't tell if I read this blog more when I'm anxiety-ridden or more when I'm not...but there is definitely some sort of correlation. Yeah, I think I should go to bed now :)

"Thanks for the encouragement. I’m not sure how good it is. But I figure if I can just get in the habit of writing something, maybe I’ll develop a flow or sort of figure it out as I go along. It’s harder than you’d think it would be, so I’m still sort of just limping along. "

SQT, even getting a few pages a day done is great! You have a two-year-old at home with you, and another child too! Having a contract deadline makes all the difference in my productivity. I can only get so much done at night and during naps, so my daughter also goes to preschool for 3 hours a day so that I have some uninterrupted work time (she doesn't nap consistently so I can't rely on that for work time). If it weren't for preschool, I'd be lucky to get a few pages a day done.

And trust me, I don't get 10 pages a day done unless I'm in the groove with a work in progress. Getting started is soooo hard, and there are days when I write very slowly while trying to get to know the characters.

I just give myself permission to write crap, because like Jack said, 90% of the inspiration is in revisions. Or something like that. I figure I can always fix it later, and many times what I think is crap turns out to be fine later when I re-read it.

You have to find the pace that's right for you, not anyone else. I know full-time writers who only get a few pages a day done.

"I get drained just teaching alot of times."

I was a student teacher for one semester and found it to be the most draining thing I've ever done. But I'm very introverted and interacting with other people drains me--so interacting with over a hundred kids a day left me nearly comatose at the end of the day.

It's great that you can be both an instructor and a painter, Jack.

Wow, you guys were chatty last night. I missed an interesting conversation! And now it's taking way too long trying to read through it!

I fell asleep watching Seven Samurai, damn it. It was a good movie--I was just too tired. Yes, it's a classic Japanese film. It's not really a fight movie, more of an epic or something. It was the inspiration for The Magnificent Seven (?), I think.