Category — Microblog Mondays

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I recently read about the most isolated place on earth: Tristan da Cunha.  It takes a week to reach the island from the closest piece of mainland.  It’s 1000 miles from the nearest town.

I love islands: the moodier, the better.  I’m not really into happy, sunny islands.  I’m more drawn to the Outer Hebrides than I am to the Greater Antilles.

Part of me would love the chance to live somewhere like Tristan da Cunha for a year, even if I’d have to contend with slow Internet.  (Perhaps I should wait to go until they fix that problem.)  And part of me thinks I would go mad living somewhere that isolated when I’m accustomed to being near big cities, with all their conveniences at my fingertips.

Do you think you could live somewhere as isolated as Tristan da Cunha for a year if given the chance?

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Nathan Bransford asked a question a few months ago that comes up again and again and again on the Internet, but it’s a good one:

When it comes to your creative work (in this case, a book), “would you take money or an award?”

It’s popularity or prestige. It’s fame or skill. It’s money or accolades. You only get one.

Pick your poison.  I mean… uh… reward.

Would you rather have your creative work sell like hotcakes while you’re alive but burn out and be forgotten in the future, or have your work not sell well but stand the test of time?

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Last weekend, we went to the beach for the day.  The experience reminded me why I like to go to the beach mid-week during high season.

Beyond how crowded it is on the weekend, there were two types of things that annoyed me that I rarely encounter during the week.  The first was the breaking of established rules where the activity affected other people.  For instance, smoking on the beach.  We ended up moving two times due to smokers.

The other was more slippery: playing music on the beach.  As far as I know, there isn’t an established rule against playing music without headphones.  But we all know that it is annoying unless the person blasting the music happens to have inadvertently chosen music that you also enjoy.  I’m sure those people wouldn’t want to hear my music, and I certainly didn’t want to hear their music.  But I had to hear their music because they decided to play it aloud.

I feel that way about cell phones in cars — it’s breaking an established rule that is there to protect other people — and perfume — not a rule but certainly annoying and affecting others when a person wears too much in public.

The answer is, obviously, to never leave my house.

What are your pet peeves in public spaces?

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Truman got a cold.  I was sitting down to a very stressful plate of work when I heard him sneeze several times.  I turned around and snot was coming out of his nose.  He politely wiped it away with his paw.

I decided to clean his cage before I started working.  Midway through cleaning the cage, he started wheezing.  He wasn’t wheezing so hard that he couldn’t go after a cookie I hid at the top of the stairs in his playpen.  But wheezing nonetheless.

I called the vet feeling a little foolish because… you know… it was a cold, right?  But the vet told me to bring him in.  When I got in there, I started sobbing because I was so scared that it was going to be like Cozy.  Out of context, I’m sure I looked like a lunatic, crying over the fact that my guinea pig was sneezing.  But… what if?

I went home with medication for his upper respiratory infection.  He’s totally himself personalitywise, just with a runny nose.

I said it with Cozy and I’ll say it again: “It doesn’t matter how small you are; you can still be deeply loved.”

Do you have a pet you fret over and love intensely?

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Sibyl Moon Games had a post a while back about deciding to leave a game unfinished.

She writes so perfectly: “Creative work is a gamble.  Each time you sit down at your computer – or your notebook, or your easel, or whatever the tools of your specific pursuit may be – then you’re betting you can capture something from your mind and convey it to your audience’s.”

She goes on to admit that part of being a game-maker (or a writer or an artist or an actress or a musician) is also knowing when to walk away and commit your energy elsewhere.  Not every idea will be brought to fruition, and not every project started will be completed.

How do you prioritize where your creative hours go?  Have you ever had to walk away from a project and did doing so create space for other work?

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