tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post4282022380671400569..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: The Mechanics of the Mind - Lucy CoatsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-84243154757676657782008-11-23T16:38:00.000+00:002008-11-23T16:38:00.000+00:00Thanks, Lee--this is a fascinating link. They're ...Thanks, Lee--this is a fascinating link. They're doing one near me in May next year, so shall try and see if they'll take me as a guinea pig!Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-71298530346701987292008-11-23T09:14:00.000+00:002008-11-23T09:14:00.000+00:00And here's a link to installation artist Luke Jerr...And here's a link to installation artist Luke Jerram, who is working in dream space:<BR/><BR/>http://www.dreamdirector.net/index.htmlLeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-1394725630062846782008-11-23T09:01:00.000+00:002008-11-23T09:01:00.000+00:00Thanks, Lucy and Brian. I didn't mean to sound cur...Thanks, Lucy and Brian. I didn't mean to sound curmudgeonly but I do get discouraged sometimes - too often, probably. Just recently, for example, I was told on a public forum that some criticism I voiced of a particularly popular American YA novel must be a case of 'sour grapes'. One of the reasons I've cut back on discussing/reviewing YA novels on my own blog has been exactly this assumption. <BR/><BR/>(Criticism should never be mean-spirited or self-serving, but I believe we're doing YA literature a disservice by an unwillingness to review fellow writers. However ...)Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-11940877941871740652008-11-21T19:06:00.000+00:002008-11-21T19:06:00.000+00:00Maybe none of us are--deep down (or not so deep do...Maybe none of us are--deep down (or not so deep down in my particular case) is always the feeling that I could always do better, write faster, or whatever the black shoulder dog is whispering in my ear today. And I also always feel, when I meet other writers, that they are somehow doing it in some superior fashion to me--even though I know, from conversations I have often had, that they feel the same way I do! Oh, our fragile creative egos!Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-46426267890412689062008-11-21T14:14:00.000+00:002008-11-21T14:14:00.000+00:00I've been writing books for a quarter of a century...I've been writing books for a quarter of a century and I'm still not convinced I'm a real writerBrian Keaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17754984212153946279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-57158581260481450252008-11-20T18:28:00.000+00:002008-11-20T18:28:00.000+00:00I think you'll find people DO read your comments, ...I think you'll find people DO read your comments, Lee. I for one always find them illuminating, instructive and to the point, and it's really nice to have someone who comments regularly on the blog posts. It's good to know there's SOMEONE out there reading all this! But please don't say you're not a 'real' writer (which is something you refer to quite often). Anyone who has finished one YA novel and is onto another is a real writer in my book.Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-13752479603493576332008-11-20T18:22:00.000+00:002008-11-20T18:22:00.000+00:00No, you're not weird, or no weirder than I am. As ...No, you're not weird, or no weirder than I am. As I indicated in one of my comments, I do something similar. But perhaps people don't read my comments, since I'm not a 'real' writer.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-90112782796445290582008-11-20T17:23:00.000+00:002008-11-20T17:23:00.000+00:00Not with the new vice laws it wouldn't!Not with the new vice laws it wouldn't!Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-49901610066380623912008-11-20T13:35:00.000+00:002008-11-20T13:35:00.000+00:00If you can be paid for sleeping and dreaming, Lucy...If you can be paid for sleeping and dreaming, Lucy, that is fantastic! It sounds a brilliant plan, very seductively described. But sleeping in the middle of the day always leaves me feeling sick. I suspect, too, that homecoming children would be horrified if they got in and I was in bed and claiming I was working - they'd probably assume I'd turned to prostitution. Still, it might be more profitable...Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.com