Comments on: Help! I’m an Introverted Writer in an Extraverts’ World! http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/ News & commentary about opportunities & resources for writers in virtual worlds such as Second Life Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:37:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/ hourly 1 By: Stephen http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-6654 Stephen Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:37:46 +0000 http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-6654 I love the pictorial views of the writer's career. It used to be so much easier back in the day....today's writing job looks way complicated! .-= Stephen´s last blog ..<a href="http://pcsportlive.com/?p=15" rel="">It’s Over</a> =-. I love the pictorial views of the writer’s career. It used to be so much easier back in the day….today’s writing job looks way complicated!
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]]> By: Scotti Cohn http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-4881 Scotti Cohn Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:42:51 +0000 http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-4881 Here's the thing: Even though I'm an introvert, I still suffer when I don't receive validation -- especially when I am expected to "get out there and promote my book" and I do exactly that, but almost nobody attends the event or pays attention to what I do. That's because I'm an introvert, so I have neglected to make a gazillion friends through all the groups I *don't* belong to (and I have no family members living nearby) -- so I have no automatic audience to come and cheer me on. My few, precious friends cannot be expected to come to every appearance I make (appearances I would not even be making if it were not expected of me!) I try very hard to do my best and put on a good program, but it definitely "smarts" when the response is weak to nonexistent. Here’s the thing: Even though I’m an introvert, I still suffer when I don’t receive validation — especially when I am expected to “get out there and promote my book” and I do exactly that, but almost nobody attends the event or pays attention to what I do. That’s because I’m an introvert, so I have neglected to make a gazillion friends through all the groups I *don’t* belong to (and I have no family members living nearby) — so I have no automatic audience to come and cheer me on. My few, precious friends cannot be expected to come to every appearance I make (appearances I would not even be making if it were not expected of me!) I try very hard to do my best and put on a good program, but it definitely “smarts” when the response is weak to nonexistent.

]]> By: Joan Kremer http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-375 Joan Kremer Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:23:02 +0000 http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-375 Tidd -- second time today you've made me laugh!! And I, too, am grateful to Jung for helping me understand how great it is to be an introvert! Thanks for the comment! You have such a great way with words -- no wonder you're a writer! Alas/Joan Tidd — second time today you’ve made me laugh!! And I, too, am grateful to Jung for helping me understand how great it is to be an introvert!

Thanks for the comment! You have such a great way with words — no wonder you’re a writer!

Alas/Joan

]]> By: Tidd Kidd http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-368 Tidd Kidd Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:54:17 +0000 http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-368 I stopped worrying about being an introvert when I learned that true introverts, though always "within themselves", are also totally self-sufficient, and never ever bored with their own company. Those poor extraverts however ... they cannot feel validated unless they are pouring forth to a (hopefully) approving audience, and without the audience they are like flapping fish out of water - so I've felt sorry for them ever since. Thank you Carl Jung - you changed my life ! I stopped worrying about being an introvert when I learned that true introverts, though always “within themselves”, are also totally self-sufficient, and never ever bored with their own company.

Those poor extraverts however … they cannot feel validated unless they are pouring forth to a (hopefully) approving audience, and without the audience they are like flapping fish out of water – so I’ve felt sorry for them ever since.

Thank you Carl Jung – you changed my life !

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]]> By: Joan Kremer http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-88 Joan Kremer Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:45:02 +0000 http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-88 Hi Win! Thanks so much for your comment. I really wish I could read Italian so I <i>could</i> read your blog! Congratulations on getting the publisher. That's fantastic! Be sure to let me know when it's published. You're absolutely right that writing ability can't be faked, no matter how obtuse the SL mask. But it can help to increase confidence in one's good writing (I believe). Again, thanks for writing and best wishes on your writing! Joan Hi Win!

Thanks so much for your comment. I really wish I could read Italian so I could read your blog!

Congratulations on getting the publisher. That’s fantastic! Be sure to let me know when it’s published.

You’re absolutely right that writing ability can’t be faked, no matter how obtuse the SL mask. But it can help to increase confidence in one’s good writing (I believe).

Again, thanks for writing and best wishes on your writing!

Joan

]]> By: WinthorpeFoghorn Zinnemann http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-62 WinthorpeFoghorn Zinnemann Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:05:00 +0000 http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-62 Mmm... a cool blog. I found you through some group on Facebook... Let me read some more and then get back to you. I am a professional RL writer - I almost never wrote any fiction though... that is until I started my blog on my SL experiences. That's in Italian, so you are lucky I can't ask you to bother checking it out. However, on SL I did find out about a great unpublished novel and... ...and, well, I was able to find a publisher and I got a RL world translating it in Italian... which is what I am doing right now. We can discuss about extraversion - I find that although SL does help shy people to come out about some parts of their personality, it still doesn't really help when one feels she is not a good writer. Although one does wear a mask on SL, one's ability (or inability) to write can't really be faked. But, as I said, let me read more of this blog. It sounds extremely appealing to me. Thanks for doing it! Win Mmm… a cool blog. I found you through some group on Facebook… Let me read some more and then get back to you.

I am a professional RL writer – I almost never wrote any fiction though… that is until I started my blog on my SL experiences. That’s in Italian, so you are lucky I can’t ask you to bother checking it out. However, on SL I did find out about a great unpublished novel and…

…and, well, I was able to find a publisher and I got a RL world translating it in Italian… which is what I am doing right now.

We can discuss about extraversion – I find that although SL does help shy people to come out about some parts of their personality, it still doesn’t really help when one feels she is not a good writer. Although one does wear a mask on SL, one’s ability (or inability) to write can’t really be faked.

But, as I said, let me read more of this blog. It sounds extremely appealing to me. Thanks for doing it!

Win

]]> By: Joan Kremer http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-52 Joan Kremer Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:41:41 +0000 http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-52 Hi Jodi, Excellent ideas you share! Yes, I do think extraverts and introverts are "opposite oars in the same water." Great analogy! And thanks for sharing what extraverts go through -- I always figured they didn't have those silly emotional hangups that introverts do. Hope for extraverts in SL? Heck, I think you guys rule there, too!! :-) Seriously, I'd say SL can help all of us practice whatever skills we need to work on. What do you think? Thanks for you comment! Joan <abbr><em><abbr><em>Joan Kremers last blog post..<a href="http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/" rel="">Help! I’m an Introverted Writer in an Extraverts’ World!</a></em></abbr></em></abbr> Hi Jodi,

Excellent ideas you share! Yes, I do think extraverts and introverts are “opposite oars in the same water.” Great analogy! And thanks for sharing what extraverts go through — I always figured they didn’t have those silly emotional hangups that introverts do.

Hope for extraverts in SL? Heck, I think you guys rule there, too!! :-) Seriously, I’d say SL can help all of us practice whatever skills we need to work on. What do you think?

Thanks for you comment!
Joan

Joan Kremers last blog post..Help! I’m an Introverted Writer in an Extraverts’ World!

]]> By: Jodi Griffith http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-51 Jodi Griffith Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:45:02 +0000 http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/shy-writers/#comment-51 Joan, An excellent description of what an introvert experiences in an extroverted world! I hadn't realized the extent of emotions and contortions that are, and have been experienced. I believe introverts and extroverts could be "opposite oars in the water"; as there are times I experience these same emotions and contortions as a result of being an extrovert. While introverts may be pained with fear and dread of attention when in the spotlight; extroverts may be pained when they realize they have "hogged" the spotlight and overstepped the boundaries of social niceties, by "vomiting" speech and antics into a crowd! Is there hope for extroverts through Second Life? Just a thought. Joan,

An excellent description of what an introvert experiences in an extroverted world! I hadn’t realized the extent of emotions and contortions that are, and have been experienced.

I believe introverts and extroverts could be “opposite oars in the water”; as there are times I experience these same emotions and contortions as a result of being an extrovert.

While introverts may be pained with fear and dread of attention when in the spotlight; extroverts may be pained when they realize they have “hogged” the spotlight and overstepped the boundaries of social niceties, by “vomiting” speech and antics into a crowd!

Is there hope for extroverts through Second Life? Just a thought.

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