Comments on: I’m afraid if I start, I won’t be able to stop http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/ Mon, 21 May 2012 20:49:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: sweetney http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3305 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:46:58 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3305 you have to do what you feel comfortable with (sorry, stating the obvious). i've thought of chucking the whole thing several times... there's a lot to consider, both good and bad. i so understand. so...i'd miss having you around, but i'd also SO get it. you have to do what you feel comfortable with (sorry, stating the obvious). i’ve thought of chucking the whole thing several times… there’s a lot to consider, both good and bad. i so understand.

so…i’d miss having you around, but i’d also SO get it.

]]> by: Terri http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3255 Wed, 31 May 2006 19:03:37 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3255 If you stopped blogging I can't say I wouldn't miss your words, but I would understand and respect your decision. If you're saying that you might stop writing entirely--well, I have to discourage that!! It would be a shame if you were to give up writing. Even if you are the only person who ever sees your words, they are worth expressing. If you stopped blogging I can’t say I wouldn’t miss your words, but I would understand and respect your decision. If you’re saying that you might stop writing entirely–well, I have to discourage that!! It would be a shame if you were to give up writing. Even if you are the only person who ever sees your words, they are worth expressing.

]]> by: Paula http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3253 Wed, 31 May 2006 16:03:35 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3253 I think all good writing requires some peeling back of the surface and letting your slip show. But, fwiw, you've never written anything here that made me uncomfortable to read, or feel that I was being inundated with "too much info." I really enjoy reading about the small "holy" details of your life in Boston. I think all good writing requires some peeling back of the surface and letting your slip show. But, fwiw, you’ve never written anything here that made me uncomfortable to read, or feel that I was being inundated with “too much info.” I really enjoy reading about the small “holy” details of your life in Boston.

]]> by: Ezra http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3237 Mon, 29 May 2006 13:31:24 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3237 I went through a slow patch with the blogging recently, and, while I didn't get to the point where I wanted to give it up, I couldn't imagine doing so much of it ever again, and I did finally understand why some friends have given it up. I switched to offline, bought a couple of moleskines, bringing my total of offline journals to like 4 or 5, all for different purposes or locations, and stopped thinking of the blog as my primary outlet. Of course, since then, the urge to blog has come back, somewhat. It's just, you know, not everything is bloggable. I'm thinking of changing my tagline to "the tao that can be blogged is not the eternal tao." But there are still things that I want to mention and have my usual audience read. I went through a slow patch with the blogging recently, and, while I didn’t get to the point where I wanted to give it up, I couldn’t imagine doing so much of it ever again, and I did finally understand why some friends have given it up.

I switched to offline, bought a couple of moleskines, bringing my total of offline journals to like 4 or 5, all for different purposes or locations, and stopped thinking of the blog as my primary outlet.

Of course, since then, the urge to blog has come back, somewhat. It’s just, you know, not everything is bloggable. I’m thinking of changing my tagline to “the tao that can be blogged is not the eternal tao.” But there are still things that I want to mention and have my usual audience read.

]]> by: 2fs http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3228 Sun, 28 May 2006 04:49:53 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/05/im-afraid-if-i-start-i-wont-be-able-to-stop/#comment-3228 Well, I'd say normally to do whatever makes you feel comfortable...but that seems to be the question! But I'm not sure what might embarrass you about it - unless you mean specific posts or thoughts (none of which occur to me - but then, what embarrasses one person may not strike others as being embarrassing at all). And if that's the case, I suppose you could write stuff, hang on to it, reread it, then decide whether to post it. Or post it, then decide to delete it (assuming Word Press allows that). Cuz otherwise, I'll have to go on embarrassing myself for the both of us, and no one would want that, would they? Well, I’d say normally to do whatever makes you feel comfortable…but that seems to be the question! But I’m not sure what might embarrass you about it - unless you mean specific posts or thoughts (none of which occur to me - but then, what embarrasses one person may not strike others as being embarrassing at all). And if that’s the case, I suppose you could write stuff, hang on to it, reread it, then decide whether to post it. Or post it, then decide to delete it (assuming Word Press allows that).

Cuz otherwise, I’ll have to go on embarrassing myself for the both of us, and no one would want that, would they?

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