Comments on: This Community Is Our Community http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/ Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of a Small Business Owner Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:21:03 -0700 hourly 1 By: Carolyn Manning http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/comment-page-1/#comment-27483 Carolyn Manning Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:56:42 +0000 http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/#comment-27483 Chris, your comment testifies to our commitment to making this a better community. Thank you. I'll be in touch tomorrow; it's scheduled to be a 'tending to the email' day. :) Chris, your comment testifies to our commitment to making this a better community. Thank you. I’ll be in touch tomorrow; it’s scheduled to be a ‘tending to the email’ day. :)

]]> By: Chris Owen http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/comment-page-1/#comment-27482 Chris Owen Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:42:59 +0000 http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/#comment-27482 Carolyn Another thoughtful and affirming piece. It's the community as much as the opportunity to write that has kept me blogging! Carolyn
Another thoughtful and affirming piece.
It’s the community as much as the opportunity to write that has kept me blogging!

]]> By: Carolyn Manning http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/comment-page-1/#comment-26637 Carolyn Manning Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:27:57 +0000 http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/#comment-26637 Robert, we are the Youngblood Hawks of the digital age. We're out there, putting our thoughts anywhere there's a place to put them. However, unlike Clavel's fictional figure, we writers can no longer walk into a publisher's office, hand over a manuscript, and expect to get a bunch of money. We still, however, have that enthusiasm, that drive, that honest feeling that we have something to give to the world, that we have what it takes to make it. Many of us (including you and me) do have it and will make it. The general quality of writing online is probably comparable to the general quality of writing at any time in history. There's always been mediocrity. And there have always been those who possess the stellar talents. The next major writer will come from these digital pages and all of us can be proud that we're part of those pages. We don't have the ambience of the Paris Cafes, but we have something a whole lot better. Thanks for confirming your comment on mediocrity. It put things in better perspective. Robert, we are the Youngblood Hawks of the digital age. We’re out there, putting our thoughts anywhere there’s a place to put them. However, unlike Clavel’s fictional figure, we writers can no longer walk into a publisher’s office, hand over a manuscript, and expect to get a bunch of money. We still, however, have that enthusiasm, that drive, that honest feeling that we have something to give to the world, that we have what it takes to make it. Many of us (including you and me) do have it and will make it.

The general quality of writing online is probably comparable to the general quality of writing at any time in history. There’s always been mediocrity. And there have always been those who possess the stellar talents.

The next major writer will come from these digital pages and all of us can be proud that we’re part of those pages. We don’t have the ambience of the Paris Cafes, but we have something a whole lot better.

Thanks for confirming your comment on mediocrity. It put things in better perspective.

]]> By: Robert Bruce http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/comment-page-1/#comment-26614 Robert Bruce Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:18:16 +0000 http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/#comment-26614 Carolyn, "Mediocre" in my comment on 901am refers to the <em>general</em> quality of writing online (including mine), not the quality of any particular community online. And I <em>hope</em> the next Hemingway pushes through the mass of digital pages out there. He or she certainly isn't coming out of trad. publishing. Not that I can see anyway. Thanks for including me in your thoughts. Carolyn,

“Mediocre” in my comment on 901am refers to the general quality of writing online (including mine), not the quality of any particular community online.

And I hope the next Hemingway pushes through the mass of digital pages out there. He or she certainly isn’t coming out of trad. publishing. Not that I can see anyway.

Thanks for including me in your thoughts.

]]> By: Fab 5 on Friday 03/23/07 - Spirituality Applied to Life - Balanced Life Center http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/comment-page-1/#comment-26235 Fab 5 on Friday 03/23/07 - Spirituality Applied to Life - Balanced Life Center Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:22:58 +0000 http://workingathomeinternet.com/WP/2007/03/22/this-community-is-our-community/#comment-26235 [...] does a guest post for Joe on short notice entitled This Community Is Our Community. Epitomizing how readers quickly become friends in the [...] [...] does a guest post for Joe on short notice entitled This Community Is Our Community. Epitomizing how readers quickly become friends in the [...]

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