tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5277709982911932350..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: The Visible Writer by Penny DolanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-29987000563379688212008-08-25T11:30:00.000+01:002008-08-25T11:30:00.000+01:00It's exactly like 'showtime' for me too. It's cer...It's exactly like 'showtime' for me too. It's certainly not who I am at home, but it's definitely a facet of who I am. As I go into a different space in my head when I write, so I go into a different space when I perform in a school--even if I am just reading stories. I am always nervous, but it's a good kind of adrenaline nervous which I enjoy in a kind of masochistic way. Like Adele, I've heard all the questions before, but I answer them anyway as if they were brand new--as they are to the child who is asking them. My writerly instinct is to hibernate and use my precious time for writing--but getting out there, though against my instinct, is good too, and necessary. Though not always enjoyable.Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-77874056801586362802008-08-22T16:46:00.000+01:002008-08-22T16:46:00.000+01:00Nick, that's an interesting thought! Maybe why it'...Nick, that's an interesting thought! Maybe why it's so hard to respond to the "So you're a writer?" at parties. If I ever do start to explain, shades of the Ancient Mariner seem to flow into my speech. And so agree with you, Adele, about the pleasure of meeting writers. However, in schools, the other writers or visitors usually came yesterday or are coming tomorrow, so before long "names" on the local circuit start feeling like friends even though you may never have met!Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-62255086285507379372008-08-22T15:51:00.000+01:002008-08-22T15:51:00.000+01:00So agree with you, Penny...it IS showtime, defini...So agree with you, Penny...it IS showtime, definitely and not the same thing as writing at all. It gets harder and harder to 'do charming' as you get older and when you're as old as I am, you've heard everything you've got to say thousands of times before. Which is why I do so few events... Try to keep them to ones I know I'll enjoy. Or think I know....Festivals are best because you meet other writers there.adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-57148239666903454722008-08-22T09:12:00.000+01:002008-08-22T09:12:00.000+01:00I read an interview with William Gibson where he c...I read an interview with William Gibson where he claimed that it's impossible to meet the person who actually writes the books. People who meet him expect to talk to a sagely guru who can see the future. What they get is someone preoccupied with what he's going to have for lunch today (or something like that, I can't remember what he actually said).Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.com