Comments on: Coming Out: Revealing Secret Passions

By: coffeewithjulie

coffeewithjulie — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:19:15 +0000

I hope you don’t mind that I shared this post with my blog readers. I found it so inspiring that it seemed selfish to keep it to myself!
http://www.julieharrison.ca/living/sharing-stories/

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:24:16 +0000

Well done, Schmutzie! I ENVY your ability to work part time and write, and look forward to doing the same thing. When I quit my “corporate” job to work at an amazon.com warehouse for less money, so I could write, I was detoured (pregnancy, marriage that wasn’t so great…) Just wanted to share that much so I can say “I get it.”

I’m glad that however you felt about writing, you kept on doing it. You inspire me. It is interesting to me that as I’m moving toward more anonymity, you’re moving toward less – but there are reasons for both. Just keep going, the world needs you!

By: Schmutzie

Schmutzie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:31:43 +0000

I used to be an administrative assistant! It helps me to think of my creative work as my real work, and my job simply as my way to continue to afford sandwiches.

By: Cecilieaux Bois de Murier

Cecilieaux Bois de Murier — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:07:53 +0000

Someone with whom I correspond said she identifies with you. She said it was a question of self-confidence, of asking herself how she dared claim to be writer and a fear of being ridiculous. That’s why she often thinks of closing her blog, which relatives see as a “shameful exhibition.”

For my part, I have made my living writing all my life (and I’m older than you are), but I never felt this whole set of feelings about the notion of “being a writer.” I’m a writer. I could be a plumber. It pays the bills. Sometimes I write things I like, sometimes it’s so so. I blog to write more freely, to indulge myself writing about topics that no one would pay me to write about — or few care about.

Maybe I’m missing something.

Schmutzie is, of course, a very good writer. She’s a consummate blogger. And she has a vast Canadian prairie of emotions and thoughts to explore and share.

By: Sarah Gignac

Sarah Gignac — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:00:15 +0000

How about “I’m just a writer who happens to enjoy being unemployed?”

No, doesn’t have the same ring….:)

By: Ashley, The Accidental Olympian

Ashley, The Accidental Olympian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:55:19 +0000

I vow to think of this line, “I am actually a writer who just happens to enjoy selling shoes,” on those days when I feel under paid, or the lack luster of my job eats away at my heart.

Mine should read, “I am actually a writer who just happens to enjoy being an administrative assistant.”

I feel better already.

By: Deb on the Rocks

Deb on the Rocks — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:52:52 +0000

GLORIOUS.

By: Schmutzie

Schmutzie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:50:58 +0000

You have all been so kind about my first piece here at Life As A Human. Thank you for making my first day awesome!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:16:07 +0000

A perfect piece of writing that I want to share with everyone. (And I did … at least those who follow me on Twitter . )

By: juliejulie

juliejulie — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:02:14 +0000

Funny, when I was a kid, I told everyone I was going to be a writer, but it’s taken my 30 years to think of it as something more than a fun thing on the side of “real” career options. Which is dumb, I know. Reading this post makes me realize that hopping around through a bunch off jobs isn’t really that weird if you’re an artist, it’s probably pretty normal?