Comments on: Plugging In & Out http://amancuso.org/blog/215 Unorthodox Creativity Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:13:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: A Triumphant Return! | AMancuso.org http://amancuso.org/blog/215/comment-page-1#comment-105 A Triumphant Return! | AMancuso.org Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:39:43 +0000 http://amancuso.org/?p=215#comment-105 [...] last post was over a month ago and talked about my need to unplug. Well, true to personal form, I hit one extreme after the other and completely abandoned Twitter, [...] [...] last post was over a month ago and talked about my need to unplug. Well, true to personal form, I hit one extreme after the other and completely abandoned Twitter, [...]

]]> By: Clifton Hill http://amancuso.org/blog/215/comment-page-1#comment-97 Clifton Hill Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:06:41 +0000 http://amancuso.org/?p=215#comment-97 Hear, hear! Totally understand. You are not alone. And the biggest problem is that if you build a following, without content you are farther from your goal (in my mind), than the reverse. I think having a following is good, but having a book is better. Finding that perfect balance is not going to be easy. I know I don't have it yet either. Best of luck and Happy New Year! Hear, hear! Totally understand. You are not alone. And the biggest problem is that if you build a following, without content you are farther from your goal (in my mind), than the reverse. I think having a following is good, but having a book is better. Finding that perfect balance is not going to be easy. I know I don’t have it yet either.

Best of luck and Happy New Year!

]]> By: Caroline http://amancuso.org/blog/215/comment-page-1#comment-96 Caroline Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:02:07 +0000 http://amancuso.org/?p=215#comment-96 Double arse! I don't believe I forgot to fill in the name & email bit twice and lost everything I typed. It was quite eloquent as well, if not particularly constructive to your situation. Mostly along the lines of my online/offline balance is only a balance on a macro timescale. On a more granular timescale, I pendulum between bursts of online activity and days avoiding the computer as though the weight of all those words was too much of a burden. I consider myself lucky to have such understanding friends. I guess I could be content with the 'balance' but I'm not happy with it. But my online activities are social, not trying to build anything in particular, I'm motivated to 'not be alone' and to explore my own creativity - but under that there's avoiding rejection and finding a voice. For my survival I only have the energy to do one or the other 'properly' at a time. But survival isn't living. At least I don't use eating to express myself so much any more! Maybe if you get to the motives under the motives - why do you want to be published, to see your book on a shelf, for example, or for recognition - then perhaps new paths and activities or ways of combining things will be available to discover. And a balance will present itself, combining the things you do do with the things you want. Double arse! I don’t believe I forgot to fill in the name & email bit twice and lost everything I typed. It was quite eloquent as well, if not particularly constructive to your situation.

Mostly along the lines of my online/offline balance is only a balance on a macro timescale. On a more granular timescale, I pendulum between bursts of online activity and days avoiding the computer as though the weight of all those words was too much of a burden. I consider myself lucky to have such understanding friends. I guess I could be content with the ‘balance’ but I’m not happy with it.

But my online activities are social, not trying to build anything in particular, I’m motivated to ‘not be alone’ and to explore my own creativity – but under that there’s avoiding rejection and finding a voice. For my survival I only have the energy to do one or the other ‘properly’ at a time. But survival isn’t living. At least I don’t use eating to express myself so much any more!

Maybe if you get to the motives under the motives – why do you want to be published, to see your book on a shelf, for example, or for recognition – then perhaps new paths and activities or ways of combining things will be available to discover. And a balance will present itself, combining the things you do do with the things you want.

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