Comments on: I was taking a bath http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/10/21/i-was-taking-a-bath/ dawn friedman's blog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:16:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Louise http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/10/21/i-was-taking-a-bath/#comment-6166 Louise Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:05:02 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1673#comment-6166 Gorgeous essay, Dawn! You are too modest- you hid the link to the essay in the middle of this post! :-) Gorgeous essay, Dawn! You are too modest- you hid the link to the essay in the middle of this post! :-)

]]> By: Why Blog? « My Sky ~ Multiracial Family Life http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/10/21/i-was-taking-a-bath/#comment-6165 Why Blog? « My Sky ~ Multiracial Family Life Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:23:36 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1673#comment-6165 [...] visually, in front of me, helps me focus. Because goodness knows, I can be all over the page. (Like Dawn, I see connections between everything.) So although it wasn’t one of the reasons I began [...] [...] visually, in front of me, helps me focus. Because goodness knows, I can be all over the page. (Like Dawn, I see connections between everything.) So although it wasn’t one of the reasons I began [...]

]]> By: Lilian http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/10/21/i-was-taking-a-bath/#comment-6162 Lilian Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:44:08 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1673#comment-6162 This was so so so helpful to me you cannot even imagine!! I am like that too: "one of my great gifts (curses sometimes but you know, most times it’s a gift) is that I see webs connecting everything to everything. I get so greedy for all of these ideas that I’m grasping for that I forget that it makes for a lousy essay because I have no point." I NEVER EVER have a point, or, for academic writing, a thesis, because I want to address so many things at once!! Even my HUGE Ph.D. dissertation doesn't have a proper thesis. It has a theme, but I just wanted to address EVERY. SINGLE. ASPECT. of that theme (and it's safe to state it here, I guess -- Brazilian women writers in English translation -- I did pick three authors to analyze, but other than that I look at the big picture in unimaginable detail...). I'm just translating into Portuguese my second ever publication -- both academic articles I wrote are about Afro-Brazilian children's books and came out in a journal of African/ African diaspora literature called <i>Sankofa</i>. I just feel the same way you feel about "Textured" about this essay because it's really focused. And it is really good because of that. The author I'm writing about -- Ana Maria Machado (two of the books I discuss in my essay are available in English -- one is the picture book that does mention BLACK HAIR -- <i>Nina Bonita</i> -- I think you should buy that book, or, better yet, maybe I should buy it and send it as a gift for you and Madison [since at the moment our budget is much better than yours -- can you email me your address? really?]) -- anyway, I sent the essay to Ana Maria MAchado and she loved it and was able to secure its publication in Brazil (at the journal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters -- no less, since she's one of four women in that institution). So, I'm translating it right now. Sorry for the huge comment -- I just cannot shut up! It's just that I really don't know how to write and I need to learn, but it has to be like that, in a nice way, reading a blog post like yours and your writing (I should go read the other essays you link to), because I'm just too stubborn. And proud sometimes (I think to myself -- if I just don't have the gift to write I should just give up already!!). Anyway, thanks. This was so so so helpful to me you cannot even imagine!! I am like that too: “one of my great gifts (curses sometimes but you know, most times it’s a gift) is that I see webs connecting everything to everything. I get so greedy for all of these ideas that I’m grasping for that I forget that it makes for a lousy essay because I have no point.” I NEVER EVER have a point, or, for academic writing, a thesis, because I want to address so many things at once!! Even my HUGE Ph.D. dissertation doesn’t have a proper thesis. It has a theme, but I just wanted to address EVERY. SINGLE. ASPECT. of that theme (and it’s safe to state it here, I guess — Brazilian women writers in English translation — I did pick three authors to analyze, but other than that I look at the big picture in unimaginable detail…).

I’m just translating into Portuguese my second ever publication — both academic articles I wrote are about Afro-Brazilian children’s books and came out in a journal of African/ African diaspora literature called Sankofa. I just feel the same way you feel about “Textured” about this essay because it’s really focused. And it is really good because of that. The author I’m writing about — Ana Maria Machado (two of the books I discuss in my essay are available in English — one is the picture book that does mention BLACK HAIR — Nina Bonita — I think you should buy that book, or, better yet, maybe I should buy it and send it as a gift for you and Madison [since at the moment our budget is much better than yours -- can you email me your address? really?]) — anyway, I sent the essay to Ana Maria MAchado and she loved it and was able to secure its publication in Brazil (at the journal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters — no less, since she’s one of four women in that institution). So, I’m translating it right now.

Sorry for the huge comment — I just cannot shut up! It’s just that I really don’t know how to write and I need to learn, but it has to be like that, in a nice way, reading a blog post like yours and your writing (I should go read the other essays you link to), because I’m just too stubborn. And proud sometimes (I think to myself — if I just don’t have the gift to write I should just give up already!!). Anyway, thanks.

]]> By: frog http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/10/21/i-was-taking-a-bath/#comment-6163 frog Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:30:34 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1673#comment-6163 Hampl rocks. I found her about the same time I found Kathleen Norris, and my life is better for it. Hampl rocks. I found her about the same time I found Kathleen Norris, and my life is better for it.

]]> By: chanie http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/10/21/i-was-taking-a-bath/#comment-6164 chanie Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:53:04 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1673#comment-6164 quite interesting in terms of process. i just got back from a painting class where my teacher told me the same thing - told me to stick to one idea, and have everything serve that, and not try to do too much in one painting. (i had started with one major idea, and then started adding other issues) though sometimes i like to keep it big and simple, as opposed to making it more comples and broken down, i can't help seeing all the connections and seeing the complexity. the trick is filter it. although of course i second guess that and think 'wont more complex be more interesting.' so i'm not always so sure. quite interesting in terms of process. i just got back from a painting class where my teacher told me the same thing - told me to stick to one idea, and have everything serve that, and not try to do too much in one painting. (i had started with one major idea, and then started adding other issues)
though sometimes i like to keep it big and simple, as opposed to making it more comples and broken down, i can’t help seeing all the connections and seeing the complexity. the trick is filter it.
although of course i second guess that and think ‘wont more complex be more interesting.’ so i’m not always so sure.

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