Administrative Note

Posting will begin again tomorrow. Over the weekend, I moved to another region of the country.

Comments

[Joshua James]

The above post, about being overdone (I could not comment on that post, for some reason) and people putting their own meaning over the meaning of the work, that really struck me, right down to the bone. It's the same thing I feel I've been struggling with. If you speak out, you're labeled as an egotist or difficult writer, if you don't, you're lost.

That, plus other reasons I've just written about on my blog, has almost burned me out.

I've started a novel, in addition to other things, and have seriously considered pulling back from theatre if not completely, at least most of the way.

I dunno man. I love the work but I don't always love what happens with it.

[Laura]

I know from which you speak... Completely and totally. I'm sorry to hear about it, too. I don't know if I have any answers, but that frame of mind was *exactly* where I was back in 2004. People in theater would get really upset with me, too, when I talked about how discouraged and burnt I was. It's as if speaking about it was a betrayal. I, too, dunked myself into a novel. Your feelings are very normal, I think. I don't know how I stopped feeling that way. Maybe that's why I'm writing about writing War now. Somehow, something for healed. Damned if I know right now what it is though.