tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803233417008181456.post2701776170137620705..comments2023-11-02T08:19:33.962-07:00Comments on Thriving Reality: Faulkner on FearKristen Skedgellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06509248930351727695noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803233417008181456.post-43738332833055235252010-03-28T10:25:45.537-07:002010-03-28T10:25:45.537-07:00I don't think there is much danger of you writ...I don't think there is much danger of you writing without pity or compassion. I don't think you will have to constantly ask yourself whether or not you are doing that.<br />Not with your life and background which you have graciously let us in on. <br /><br />If you fear procrastination or deadline so much that you rush things, I suppose it could happen. However, I don't think you are going to do that either.<br /><br />Obviously, the pity and compassion police are not going to arrest you if, for example, you have to express mail a manuscript that you've put all of yourself into in a deliberate manner. Maybe this is a bad example as I suppose writers like everyone else do all via the computer these days? But everyone should get what I mean (and perhaps know it better than I do), that it's the creativity that shouldn't be rushed. If it flows, it flows, but if not, and it's pushed too hard, it will come, as Faulkner said, "not of the heart, but of the glands".<br /><br />I thought of a good statement about fear that may apply here, but FDR beat me to it.Billynoreply@blogger.com