tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57301185406932030.post3494760170290407..comments2023-09-30T09:41:40.163-07:00Comments on It Doesn't Fall Off: FailureMelyndahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17029273097390637917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57301185406932030.post-41065214579138843902010-11-19T14:26:28.171-08:002010-11-19T14:26:28.171-08:00Your blogs are consistently entertaining and heart...Your blogs are consistently entertaining and heartfelt, passionate and honest, Melynda - keep on writing, you're a natural.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09336278873356200753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57301185406932030.post-64957574460011106942010-11-12T06:54:42.388-08:002010-11-12T06:54:42.388-08:00I love reading your blogs ... and I agree with the...I love reading your blogs ... and I agree with the other posts.. you are way too hard on yourself.. probably because you are running on empty with lack of sleep and 3 under 4 in your house.<br />You are an amazing mom, and I think a pretty good writer!Rochelle Byiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16288671115686047738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57301185406932030.post-32163148430960629652010-11-11T22:55:44.683-08:002010-11-11T22:55:44.683-08:00Well, I have always been a very good writer and ed...Well, I have always been a very good writer and editor, I used to spend large amounts of spare time doing both as hobbies! My degree was supposed to be in English (before I discover that and $1.50 gets you on the bus) and I still have a love of it.<br /><br />Blogging is a different animal than analytical writing or even longer compositions like short stories. My blog has atrocious formatting and sentence structure, but that's just the way it comes out of my brain - unedited and stream-of-consciousness. Yours looks just the same as mine, and nobody would guess I am skilled at essays and you struggle with them. In the world of blogging, experience is the great equalizer. We're both talking through our lives and struggles, there's nothing elegant or inelegant about that.<br /><br />But, for the record, I NEVER bother trying to do something like NaBloPoMo, it's too much to commit to. It's the same reason I don't set time-based weight goals. The expectation of having to be at a certain point by a certain time psyches me out and sets me up for failure :)Tarylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14472561903651164472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57301185406932030.post-71058421097093814612010-11-11T22:44:06.661-08:002010-11-11T22:44:06.661-08:00Oh Melynda, you're too hard on yourself! And I...Oh Melynda, you're too hard on yourself! And I wouldn't say you're a failure...at all. You're so good at so many things!<br /><br />So, maybe your NaBloPoMo didn't work this time around, but whatever, you can try it again another time. Like some other time when you don't have a brand new baby and an almost two year old and a three and a half year old. You're busy doing important things and I think you've got your priorities so straight it's wonderful...your girls are #1 in your life, that's the important thing...<br /><br />I love reading your blog and I think you're too hard on your writing skills...you're a good writer. When you wrote for GFC, I hardly had any editing to do...and that's a great thing!<br /><br />Post secondary writing is a pain...it took me two years to figure out that each professor had a style they looked for in papers and another year to figure out how to give them what they wanted...I hated writing that way - for someone else...and that's why I love blogging...I can write for myself and not worry about what other people think about my writing or really even about what I write about...<br /><br />Look at all those ellipses! That's hardly good grammar....<br /><br />To be a better writer you just have to practice...it's like most things. But keep up the blogging and you'll probably notice your writing changes. Go back and read some of your first posts and you'll see it. Do the same thing for a few blogs you like to read regularly...you'll see that there is a definite change in most of them from the beginning to right now (the exception would be if it's a more commercial blog that has editors or a style guide)...<br /><br />Keep writing Melynda! I'll keep reading...<br /><br />And keep that dream of going back to school. My mom went back when I was twelve and graduated when I was thirteen and I was (and still am) so proud of her. You can totally do it (when you're ready!)Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16826967903350376548noreply@blogger.com