Comments on: what’s your coping mechanism?

By: dennis gould

dennis gould — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:36:55 +0000

Hello just thought i would let you know that i also had a issue with your blog appearing blank as well. Must be chimpanzees in the system.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:22:02 +0000

LOL!! Coping with success? I’ll have to file that in my “cross that bridge when I get there” category!

By: Momo

Momo — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:04:45 +0000

Lonestar?? No! Bud Lite!

And some of the others mentioned like good Tex-Mex & smoking.

A good Aggie game is a nice diversion from time to time… when the broadcast them… when they have one!

But the best one right now is great music & great beer at Zapato’s Cantina on Northgate.

By: mark

mark — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:59:57 +0000

Try Cooper’s. The BBQ is better and it is closer to the highway and more gas stations. BTW, next time you are in Austin we will hook you up with some beef ribs at Iron Works downtown. Best beef ribs in Texas.

By: Hugh MacLeod

Hugh MacLeod — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:18:58 +0000

I grew up in the big city? Wow. You know nothing about me.

Sounds like somebody is still haunted by their High School days

But that’s not the Good Folk of Junction, Texas’ problem.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:04:57 +0000

Great post.

For me–

1) living in a small town
2) living simply
3) books and art
4) poetry
5) good wine, good cheese
6) yoga
7) good friends
writing

I didn’t mean for good wine and good cheese to come before good friends. I actually like to have all three together.

By: Susan Taylor Brown

Susan Taylor Brown — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:14:59 +0000

Ryan, I feel the same way. When I write something that helps another writer find their path it gives me the energy to get back on my own direct path.

And I think that we redefine failure and success throughout our careers.

By: Susan Cross

Susan Cross — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:45:29 +0000

Success more complex than failure? I would like to find out about those complexities. I have a number of possible coping mechanisms in mind if I only had the success to use them. Right now, I’m treading water. Coping mechanism? Reading great books. Escaping into them. Disconnecting from everything else through the words of other writers.

By: Talmadge

Talmadge — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:37:59 +0000

Lone Star

By: Barbara O'Neal

Barbara O'Neal — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:23:41 +0000

Hiking, Nia, yoga, friends. Talking it all out keeps me from taking ANY of it (success or failure) too seriously.

By: Ryan J Van Seters

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:45:15 +0000

Motivating other writers.

When I feel down-and-out and start to doubt myself I put my motivational abilities to the test.

If I can sway one writer with my words, and give them a guiding hand back to the path of creativity, then that’s it, I know can do the same for myself.

It’s a matter of perspective and perseverance, like most things in life.

By: @PDXsays

@PDXsays — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:39:36 +0000

Oh… so you come from the city, and don’t know the horrors of being from a one-horse town… of being labeled by the illiterati, the pressures of trying to fit in in amongst the Joe’s BBQ’s folks that deride and berate you for knowing words of more that two syllables. And *READING* all those books. trying to get to the larger town where you can check out the ones that the minister will slyly insert into his sermon next Sunday. He sits on the library board, so there’s no hiding it.

You and John Melloncamp are welcome to it. Stephen King knows something of the truth about corn fields and trailer parks and rural poverty.

Nice attempt at glamorizing, though.

By: Kait

Kait — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:16:06 +0000

My coping mechanism is simply to create more. It puts me in a meditative state of mind.

By: Phil Lynch

Phil Lynch — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:55:04 +0000

Hugh

Junction, Texas? Get yourself a copy of Jim Dent’s ‘The Junction Boys’ to get clued up on the town’s place in college football history.

By: Jo-Ann

Jo-Ann — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:27:53 +0000

a glass of wine and a sunset…