Comments on: Does It Look Easy to You?

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09/08/2008 Writing Jobs and Links : PoeWar.com Writer’s Resource Center — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:07:51 +0000

[...] Does It Look Easy to You? Well, It’s not. All that adversity keeps making it tough. [...]

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:00:03 +0000

I just assume that everything I ask someone else to do for me is easy.

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:23:15 +0000

@ Meryl – Mmhm. *nods*

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:20:26 +0000

I'm not a big fan of paintings depicting the usual mountainous terrain... BUT WOW! Dad's painting gripped me! No, I am not trying to smooch up to the MwP crew. Meryl K. Evanss last blog post..Links: 2008-09-05

By: Alex Fayle

Alex Fayle — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:38:12 +0000

My parents are artistic - my dad draws and paints and has perfect pitch. My mother designs and creates textile art with ease (although she'll insist she's merely technical and not creative but we all disagree with her). I did it all before settling on writing- acting, singing, art - and I want to be able to do it all, but I'm good with writing. Although it's not the immediate gratification that acting, singing or art appears to be (from the outside) it makes me supremely happy that I'm creating new worlds and telling stories. Alex Fayles last blog post..Trapped in the Day-to-Day: Urban Panther Interview Part 1

By: Rob Wilson

Rob Wilson — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:42:16 +0000

One of life’s lesson for me is if something is easy and you get praised for it – don’t say it was nothing it was easy – take the praise.

Because the thing that takes ages and is your most technically challenging feat people will just say oh is that it!

Take the praise when it comes…

By: sean

sean — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:36:49 +0000

Your dad’s painting is very impressive. I know with sports that it is sometimes hard to appreciate some things when you don’t know it well. A prime example is diving or gymnastics. I sit there and every dive or routine just looks amazing.

I think “wow, that’s hard” but the experienced diver/gymnast sees the subtle little things and thinks “that was flippin’ unbelievable”

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:20:17 +0000

@James & Kelly: I didn’t mean for it to sound wistful. I admire what others can do. If I want to do something, then yes, I’ll go out and do it, but at the same time, I don’t have to be the absolute best at everything I do.

Sometimes it’s just enough to have the experience and bragging rights that go along with having done an activity or learning a new skill. Other times, I find out that I really like what I’m learning and want to be the best at it.

Constantly learning new things and expanding your knowledge base helps me as a writer and makes me interesting.

@Susan: Exactly! Will I ever shoot a bow in the Olympics? Will any of my wildlife drawings land a place in the Smithsonian? Probably not. But I enjoy doing those things. That’s why they’re called hobbies

By: Susan Greene

Susan Greene — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:22:12 +0000

The list of things I’d like to do and yet lack the talent to master is wayyyy long. But my approach is to try new things, even if my attempts are laughable.

In recent years I’ve attempted to learn to surf, snow ski, rappell cliffs, body build (well, at least start lifting some weights), do Latin dances, cook (that was a total disaster!) and make elaborate artistic scrapbooks documenting my kids’ lives.

I’ve seen others do all of these things far better than me. But I figure I’m having an interesting life, and I’m learning as I go. That’s gotta count for something, right?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:53:54 +0000

Ditto to everything you said. “I wish I could” always makes me respond, “Then do.”

(But, Harry’s cute when he’s wistful.)

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