Comments on: Writing Something Worthwhile http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=128 Thes - Old English for "this", neuter of thes, of West Germanic origin: Mediolanum - old name for Milan: Lif - Old English for "life", of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib 'body' Fri, 16 Nov 2018 07:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Andy http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=128#comment-86 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:09:17 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=128#comment-86 I’m sorry if I confused anyone with this. I started the post with a specific link to your post and then, as a sweeping generalisation, I classed everything as navel-gazing. For me, certainly not everything you write is like this although some posts do seem like that. But, again, it wasn’t meant to be, in any way, disparaging or criticising but to explain that I find that type of writing (or thought) particularly difficult to do.

You’re right about it being challenging. Of course, my blog was started to allow our friends from the UK to see what was happening to us and what things were different about living here. It was never supposed to be an in-depth study of any part of my life.

I think it would be a good idea to do as you say but the prospect is a little daunting. My fear is that, if I started to write about such things as my parents and our (non-) relationship, this could make me quite depressed. Since coming here, it is one of the things I really wish to avoid. However, perhaps it is time to bite the bullet and find an outlet for more serious writing and inspection of facets of my life that have remained somewhat muted and hidden from view

Finally, I think you write beautifully. You create a scene that is vivid, alive, happening. I admire anyone who can do this. It may be difficult for you; you may post more rarely than me (but quantity is no substitute for quality); it may not be good enough, in your eyes but, for us readers, it is good, it is interesting and it makes us want to come back. I can be patient and am happy to wait for the next post!. You shouldn’t feel the need to explain. I think most people fully understand.

]]> By: corpodibacco http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=128#comment-85 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:35:39 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=128#comment-85 uhm, I wouldn’t define what I write as navel-gazing. I would be sorry if it was perceived like so. Well, of course we all as bloggers get to writing from our own experiences: this is what i like about it. Anyway to me what works (when it works: most of the times I am posting with great effort and much rarely than you, so…) is that I don’t want to ‘ignore the crap': and I don’t want to focus on pretty things. The purpose is to try to grasp what is real, because what is real is missed everyday — that to me is more challenging and interesting than excluding certain parts of my life from what I write. After all these are blogs, which means diaries. The way I see it, one should forget the public and what they know or think about you. If I was you, I would open another blog, without necessarily closing this one, of which nobody you know will know of, and try to write on it with total transparency honesty and without reticence all the things that otherwise cannot be told or described about you, your thoughts, your life. I am sure there is great stuff there (what about the relationship with your parents, for example?) That will give you a boost in writing much stronger than any recipe to get things done. It will be exciting because new and therapeutical and unpredictable. If you don’t at least try to do this, it becomes really inexplicable why you should envy someone like me, with all that crap I deliberately fill my mind with to pour it down on the page (and really, you shouldn’t!)

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