Writers Block
It seems I cannot move fast enough to keep up with the ever-active blogosphere. How do they do it, I wonder? By the time I finish reading the 48 or so posts which await me at the end or beginning of the day, my time seems to vanished. Add to this the amount of time I spend ruminating and digesting all I’ve read, and more time is eaten up. Right now, with a full day of classes, rehearsals for Carmen beginning, Forum still running for two more weeks, and the baseball playoffs about to start (Go Yankees!), where I will ever get the time to say anything meaningful or of substance I cannot guess. I tend to be a slow, careful writer, always looking for the right word, the right phrase, the right way to say precisely as possible what I mean. I have learned over the years that electronic forums such as listservs and blogs (and probably just the act of writing itself) lack the normal body language and nonverbal cues which accompany F2F conversation, and thus are so easy to misinterpret. Language itself is so imprecise a tool of communication that without the extra layer of nonverbal cues, finding accurate phrasing is even that much more difficult. Perhaps I am too self-censorious, too fearful of offending. Continue Reading »
