http://juliebush.net/risk.html story Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:51:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://juliebush.net/risk.html#comment-9 juliebush Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:49:36 +0000 http://juliebush.net/?p=338#comment-9 Hey, thanks for saying that. I particularly love your last sentence. How elegantly said. Hey, thanks for saying that. I particularly love your last sentence. How elegantly said.

]]> http://juliebush.net/risk.html#comment-11 Uptown/Downtown Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:42:51 +0000 http://juliebush.net/?p=338#comment-11 I really appreciated your honesty in this post. It's HARD to take a risk, but it's also vital to tell a story. I recently took a writing workshop with Lynda Barry, who believes every story has elements of, what she calls, autobifictionography. Our fingerprints, our lives and our DNA are woven into everything we tell. I firmly believe that's what makes a story tell-able and listen-able. I really appreciated your honesty in this post. It’s HARD to take a risk, but it’s also vital to tell a story. I recently took a writing workshop with Lynda Barry, who believes every story has elements of, what she calls, autobifictionography. Our fingerprints, our lives and our DNA are woven into everything we tell. I firmly believe that’s what makes a story tell-able and listen-able.

]]> http://juliebush.net/risk.html#comment-10 juliebush Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:39:55 +0000 http://juliebush.net/?p=338#comment-10 Oh thank you so much for saying this. Because here's the deal -- I haven't posted in two weeks because I knew I needed to stop hiding behind ideas and fancy words and just start telling stories. But because I hate feeling exposed, it took me two weeks of contemplating what that would look and feel like -- before I finally just realized, you know what, I'm a writer. If I can't step off a cliff every day, I might as well pack up and go home. And I completely agree with you that this idea applies to us all -- we're creating the story of our lives day by day, and it's up to us to make it compelling and worth sticking around to see the ending. Oh thank you so much for saying this. Because here’s the deal — I haven’t posted in two weeks because I knew I needed to stop hiding behind ideas and fancy words and just start telling stories. But because I hate feeling exposed, it took me two weeks of contemplating what that would look and feel like — before I finally just realized, you know what, I’m a writer. If I can’t step off a cliff every day, I might as well pack up and go home.
And I completely agree with you that this idea applies to us all — we’re creating the story of our lives day by day, and it’s up to us to make it compelling and worth sticking around to see the ending.

]]> http://juliebush.net/risk.html#comment-12 The Burton Family Legacy Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:16:49 +0000 http://juliebush.net/?p=338#comment-12 I wanted to thank you for this post. You make an excellent point - maybe time to stop being so guarded. I'm not a writer - but whether you are writing the story or living the story - it's still the same thing. So... thank you for taking the risk. I wanted to thank you for this post. You make an excellent point – maybe time to stop being so guarded. I’m not a writer – but whether you are writing the story or living the story – it’s still the same thing. So… thank you for taking the risk.

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