tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post7661189825112753893..comments2011-12-14T22:17:25.072-06:00Comments on COFFEE: COFFEE Project Post Six: Just Breathe (Tawni)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-49167477523366061762011-01-29T08:25:18.073-06:002011-01-29T08:25:18.073-06:00Holly- Thank you so much for reading and for your ...Holly- Thank you so much for reading and for your kind comment. I think the morning pages sound like such a good idea. Just clear all that stuff outta there right off the bat so you can get on with your day. What a great idea. And such a good way to keep you focused on what you'd like to accomplish. Love it!<br /><br />And yes, I promise I will use "crack of sparrow fart." Hahaha.<br /><br />xoxo.Tawnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188683676180842751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-68135868584383524812011-01-29T08:21:17.579-06:002011-01-29T08:21:17.579-06:00P- I just saw the follow-up comment you made. Than...P- I just saw the follow-up comment you made. Thank you so much! You know that you are one of my all-time favorite female literary voices, so your positive feedback means the world to me. Thanks for taking the time to check it out and let me know how I'm doing. Did you see that I linked the original no edit blog on the side (Under "Write Club")? There you are! Thanks again for the fabulous idea. :) xoxo.Tawnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188683676180842751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-50975571569694531182011-01-25T11:46:13.122-06:002011-01-25T11:46:13.122-06:00Well, I'm coming a bit late to this here party...Well, I'm coming a bit late to this here party. I read this the morning you posted, took notes, and then had to get in the car. So, basically, everyone stole my comments!! One of which was that I LOVE LOVE crack of a sparrow fart! Please use it in your book! I also loved "so I don't spook the nervous wild mustang of my confidence". Damn. I think I could have used that in my blog this morning!<br /><br />I also wanted to comment on your observation that you re-write thoughts in a constant loop until they're out of your head. I think everyone should do this. It's much of what the morning pages are. I would be making zippity doo dah progress if I wasn't doing the morning pages. One advantage to my morning pages is that they're private. You have incredible wild mustang hootspa to do them in a blog! I admire!<br />Cliche to write a book? Everyone's doing it? You hang out with a different crowd than I do sista. Not everyone's doing it, and I guarnatee you, people will want and need to read your book. Keep writing!!!<br />I totally, totally appreciate the description of the story board. I imagined that it was something like that, but didn't know. Like someone else said, it makes me want to write a book now!<br />I haven't been to your other blogs yet but am in love with the names of them. Especially my shiny hell.Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072337244942358325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-44119156592640028682011-01-22T09:51:13.652-06:002011-01-22T09:51:13.652-06:00quick note to tell you i thoroughly enjoyed the li...quick note to tell you i thoroughly enjoyed the literary lampshade postings. beautiful free writing! woooo! loved the use of the alien key chain in the first one. (i always think there is something so powerful about giving the character a small object to focus on. i don't know why. it just always pulls me in.) and i loved the first line of this post:<br /><br />"He kept her trapped inside the winter of his life like a frozen flower."<br /><br />awesome.patresa hartmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04225877848092404155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-2002405154673763842011-01-18T07:44:46.570-06:002011-01-18T07:44:46.570-06:00@Patresa: Thanks for saying nice stuff. In the sam...@Patresa: Thanks for saying nice stuff. In the same way you have trouble accepting musical compliments, I have trouble accepting writing compliments, but I'm trying so hard to stop that. You have one of my favorite female writer voices ever, so it means so much to me to hear you say such kind things. <br /><br />And yes, photographic negatives... I wish we could somehow share musician/writer confidence with each other to balance ourselves out. Wouldn't that be cool? :)<br /><br /><br />@Wendy: Thank you so much for your kind comment. You make me smile and smile. And I agree about finding flaws and typos in widely published books. Those things just jump out as me and I think, "Didn't anyone *read* this before it got published?" I would make a great proofreader, if there were such a job out there for me. And yes, it *does* always make me feel a bit less intimidated to notice something very flawed, yet still published. It takes the pressure off, doesn't it? Haha. :) <br /><br />@T-Bop: "I AM WRITING A BOOK, SUCKERS!!!" Oh my goodness. I had to stop reading and laugh out loud at that. I'm going to do it, too, because my friend Tanya told me to do it. Every day I will shout it into my empty house at the top of my lungs. Because you know what? I believe in the power of positive affirmations, and that most certainly counts as one. It can't hurt, right? Right! So, yes: I'M WRITING A BOOK, SUCKERS! YEAH. Haha.<br /><br />The hubby and I met in Los Angeles while I was trying to be a musician and he was trying to be an actor. We were both working in a Trader Joe's grocery store to pay the bills. It was love at first sight. He will tell you how time stopped the first time he saw me smiling across the store when I transferred to his location from a different one, and all sorts of other gushy stuff that makes me uncomfortably happy and squirmy. He's adorable. :)<br /><br />@Amy: You always make me laugh! I will make the very best Dollar Store dinner party hat for you, I promise. With fake flowers and sparkly things.<br /><br />Oh, how I love everything you quoted from Marianne Williamson, I love it all so hard. I am going to have to look into reading some of her books. Wow.<br /><br />Thanks for saying nice stuff. :)<br /><br />@Steph: You are so sweet and I can't take a compliment worth a darn, but thank you, thank you so much. Your kind, encouraging words mean so much to me. And yes, you should use the storyboard idea. It is so good for keeping the writing ideas organized. My sister uses outlines when she writes, and I love the idea of that, but my brain is so scattered since having my son that I kind of need all of the information out in the open and staring me in the face in order to stay focused. I think the outline is too subtle to break through my exhausted, muddled brain at this point. :)<br /><br />Thanks for all of the lovely, sweet, helpful, encouraging words, everybody. You all rock in too many ways to even begin to list. xoxoxoxoxo.Tawnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188683676180842751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-73604160127309919312011-01-17T22:27:47.020-06:002011-01-17T22:27:47.020-06:00CHURCH, sister... PREACH IT. I'll bet you I...CHURCH, sister... PREACH IT. I'll bet you I've read this post seven times, and it's taken me until this time to really frame some semblance of a worthy response. <br />You're the poo, frankly, and I'm humbled to talk about my writing knowing that you're reading the stuff I post on here. It feels a bit like I imagine it'd feel for me to try to serve Rachel Ray my version of the 30-minute meatloaf... Yeah. <br />To know you are timid about putting it out there is just so baffling and reassuring all at the same time. It really is. I just hope you're able at some point in time to really grasp how excellent your writing is and how it reaches people in such a meaningful way. I, too, can't wait to read your collection of blogs (aka THE BOOK)... And the storyboard idea is one I may very well swipe.<br />I offer you an enormous HIGH FIVE (or two or seven!!!) for posting the addresses to your writing. I canNOT wait to read what's there. I almost went there today, but I realized that I needed to respond here first. Did I mention that I can't wait to read your blogs??? I can't wait to read them!<br />Thanks for sharing. I dig you... and your writing!!!Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03605984406276288058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-24498942269444827692011-01-17T09:49:19.664-06:002011-01-17T09:49:19.664-06:00Tawni, you come up with the best descriptive phras...Tawni, you come up with the best descriptive phrases. The. Best! I demand you place "crack of a sparrow fart" somewhere in your book. <br /><br />Also, we've never met in person, but I get the feeling you are just a super nice person to hang out with. Also, if you threw a dinner party it would be gorgeously decorated, and you would cook a really tasty dinner and make everyone a really cute, personalized Dollar Store hat to wear. <br /><br />One of my favorite writers ever is Marianne Williamson, who said something like our deepest fear is actually not that we're inadequate, it's that we're hugely powerful, and we're more afraid of our light than our darkness. And that everyone is fabulous and talented in some way or another, and so we should all shine and show off for others like children do, because when we do show off, we give other people permission and freedom to show off themselves.<br /><br />I think you're good at doing that, but in a sweet and quiet way that is not in the least bit "come see my band!" at all. So keep breathing and putting it out there, girlfriend! <br /><br />Also, I love your storyboard idea AND your 8000 beautiful people facebook pictures.amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14474804320816948025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-69789997175541802922011-01-17T07:56:43.413-06:002011-01-17T07:56:43.413-06:00"I will re-write my thoughts in a constant lo..."I will re-write my thoughts in a constant loop in my head until I get them out of there." Tawni, Free-Bird, I LOVE that. I love all of your posts, but I have to say, I totally appreciate this one. I have come to be a fan of yours, and it is always that human sigh of relief to know somebody with such remarkable depth, talent, raw energy, creativity, FUN-NESS, and frankly just way cool has some of these same doubts and hurdling to get through. <br />I vote you shout it out 10 times every morning "I am writing a book!" Add "SUCKERS" to the end of that sentence if you need to for extra flair. The thing is, not everyone IS writing a book, and the fact that you are writing "blogs" aka book is amazing. I will be one of the first to read your book (as your fan, of course so!!), and I will even finish this book!<br />Rock on Tawni, seriously, I think you are way neato. WAY NEAT-O!<br />So...... hollywood husband? The plot just keeps getting richer.... Now I need to know how you met. :)Tanner May (Tanya)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05005969461911192971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-81489432140211721362011-01-15T17:04:27.209-06:002011-01-15T17:04:27.209-06:00T, I'm with P, I can't fathom you not reco...T, I'm with P, I can't fathom you not recognizing your obvious talent for writing. Such colorful, effortless thoughts just rolling off your tongue all the time... <br /><br />I think that we can often get dysmorphic ides of other people lodged in our brains, and that colors our view of ourselves. Sometimes our views are wildly generous and sometimes they are unmercifully condemning. I tend to swing like a pendulum from one side to the other, but it's almost always inaccurate either way, I'm learning. <br />It's especially hard learning to look at ourselves as wholly flawed, beautiful, unique, common, pigtailed, straightlaced... and every other contrasting detail that tends to fall by the wayside of personal judgment.<br /><br />The great thing about you is that you have the capacity to do this. You are intelligent, creative and obviously have a thirst for being the best Freebird you can be. I have no doubt that your talent will shine thru the murkiest of days.<br /><br />OH, and I totally get the... "I don't want to even admit I'm writing a book". I think that there are a lot of really awesome people who don't write for that same it-feels-too-cliche reason. When you feel that way, do yourself a favor. Go to a bookstore or the library and start leafing thru those published, widely distributed books. Now notice that a lot of them aren't very interesting. Some are mildly crappy. (there I go again with my condemning of people, I know...)<br />But seriously, think to yourself, if these people made it this far and had the gumption to become professional writers, then so can I! You KNOW you blow them away!<br /><br />See! Who said self-empowerment has to be diplomatic and 'nice'. ;-)Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03761660768046290323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005249090549075026.post-21284498503021608832011-01-15T08:09:54.922-06:002011-01-15T08:09:54.922-06:00thank you for writing "crack of sparrow fart&...thank you for writing "crack of sparrow fart" in the very first paragraph. i am beside-myself-grateful for this golden nugget.<br /><br />and thank you for the links! i look forward to reading openly and without judgment!<br /><br />i LOVE the storyboard idea! i want to steal that, but i'm not writing anything. maybe i'll use a storyboard to plan my day. i will replace my planner with a storyboard and draw pictures of myself going to meetings and eating lunch and participating in webinars. oh my lord, i love that so much i could die.<br /><br />so crazy to me that you have ever believed yourself an average writer! you're so far above average, that i can't imagine your eyesight good enough to even see average.<br /><br />and so very very very interesting to me that you don't care what people think of your music! that you can just hop up and play and think nothing of it. it's like you and i are photographic negatives of each other. tsk. <br /><br />totally get what you're saying about being as kind and gentle to yourself as you are to others. yes.<br /><br />way to go, freebird.patresa hartmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04225877848092404155noreply@blogger.com