tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post4362819448521097966..comments2023-08-10T03:12:36.037-07:00Comments on LKWatts Confessions: Do You Suffer From Commitment Phobia?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post-49211258425898576372011-10-27T13:48:19.810-07:002011-10-27T13:48:19.810-07:00Over forty and understand your comments about the ...Over forty and understand your comments about the younger generations always waiting for something "better" and refusing to commit. Writing takes a lot of focus, commitment, time and perseverance for me. Thanks for the observations.reese ringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13919711983496620433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post-73510326695838974632011-10-27T08:25:57.407-07:002011-10-27T08:25:57.407-07:00Several very interesting points there from the bot...Several very interesting points there from the both of you. I guess patience does come with age. I'll have to see if I still agree with you in the next twenty years! :)LK Wattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09366991733427612418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post-55717911708715698862011-10-27T05:02:33.458-07:002011-10-27T05:02:33.458-07:00Forty-three here and kind of middle ground. Thing...Forty-three here and kind of middle ground. Thing is, the stuff you're complaining about in your generation is similar to what my grandparents used to complain about in mine, and what theirs used to complain about in them. Commitment, patience, etc., all do, as Jim explains above, come out with age, no matter how much instant gratification is out there. <br /><br />As a career college dean, I see a lot of the late-teens as well as the late twenty-somethings. I grunt and gripe all the time about their lack of commitment and lack of long term vision, but every person who's ever borne the mantle has likely griped about the same stuff. Overall, my students are some pretty good kids, and though I don't see any of them writing a novel, that's more of a choice thing than an ability one.The Other Stephen Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14471972807328125155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post-74807844532902366052011-10-26T05:05:09.286-07:002011-10-26T05:05:09.286-07:00I guess at fifty-two I’m one of that older generat...I guess at fifty-two I’m one of that older generation – hell, I have a daughter older than you. I’m not entirely convinced that it is necessarily a generational thing. I was talking recently about my relationship with patience. When I was young I used to say that I only knew three definitions of patience: a girl’s name, a game of cards and an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan. And I meant it. But these days I have so much patience it’s not true. I think in terms of weeks without batting an eye. My third novel is due out now but because someone let me down it probably won’t appear until the end of the year. Am I tearing my hair out? Nah. There’s too much else to do. I think commitment and expectation are connected. I think if you don’t expect instant success then it’s easier to commit to writing as a lifestyle if not necessarily a career. But if that first book appears and everyone shrugs – let’s face it there are new books coming out every 20 minutes so why should anyone get excited about what we’ve written? – then I can see that difficult second book becoming an impossible second book.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com