tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post244439218439595201..comments2024-03-18T10:29:46.055+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: Thanks For Dropping ByKen Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-80242666965374619162013-06-03T19:27:17.391+01:002013-06-03T19:27:17.391+01:00Dear Hope: It's possibly a tired old cliche bu...Dear Hope: It's possibly a tired old cliche but in this case it's quite true - this means a lot coming from you. Thanks. x Ken Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-89099514549341734672013-06-03T19:12:16.410+01:002013-06-03T19:12:16.410+01:00Hey, you complete us. :)
You're grinning, ar...Hey, you complete us. :)<br /><br />You're grinning, aren't you? And that's why I come here. Because you make me think, encourage me to laugh, offer a sly wink or make me teary eyed over things people sometimes forget to care about.<br /><br />As they say in the south, "You're good people." About as grammatically incorrect as it comes, but heartfelt, nonetheless.hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03306622656461205674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-87646909915133130202013-06-03T16:31:44.685+01:002013-06-03T16:31:44.685+01:00Thanks P. Means a lot. xThanks P. Means a lot. xKen Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-82699512474037932112013-06-03T16:17:06.762+01:002013-06-03T16:17:06.762+01:00Hey Ken,
You're very welcome! I think it'...Hey Ken, <br /><br />You're very welcome! I think it's great that you give us this stuff for free!<br /><br />I love the way you write, it's very easy on the eye and your words always seem to leave me enough room in my brain to build the visuals.<br /><br />That's a technical term.;)<br /><br />Aerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03142982847171303932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-54454316541680578102013-06-03T11:19:18.181+01:002013-06-03T11:19:18.181+01:00Dear Karen and Claire: Thank you, you are nice. :)...Dear Karen and Claire: Thank you, you are nice. :) Ken Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-31865590974953705762013-06-03T11:14:51.991+01:002013-06-03T11:14:51.991+01:00you're welcome, it's a pleasure, and thank...you're welcome, it's a pleasure, and thank YOU! <br /><br />I definitely write for an audience, if I didn't get readers I wouldn't write, I especially love feedback. Not so keen on the criticising type, you know the type that people give you because you're out in the public eye and somehow that gives them the right to be abusive to you? <br /><br />My latest on that was after my review of The Apprentice last week, someone disagreed with my definition of entrepreneur, so then tweeted to everyone how my opinions were prejudiced and baseless. I have no idea where they got that idea from. On second thoughts, I do, they plucked out words from their head that they don't know the meaning of and chucked them towards me as an insult because I didn't want to play their game. Sigh. <br /><br /><br />Thankfully, those people are vastly outweighed by the people who appreciate my work. The work and art of writing is no easy thing! And that's why I take time (when I have it) to read your blogs, because I appreciate the skill and craftsmanship with which you sculpt words into a work of art. <br /><br />Plus, I find myself identifying with your stories, but again, that's also due to the way you create pictures so eloquently. <br /><br />So thanks Ken, thanks for entertaining me, thanks for being someone I admire. Claire Boyleshttp://www.success-matters.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-89640118912907367492013-06-03T07:45:11.617+01:002013-06-03T07:45:11.617+01:00Not sure why you're thanking "us" as...Not sure why you're thanking "us" as it is you who provides us with something that we want to read & something that we willingly return to each week! So, for that, I thank you!<br />I haven't blogged in two years. I'm always so worried that I haven't got anything interesting to say. If I knew for sure & certain that I'd just be shouting into the ether, I think I'd find it easier but - on the off chance that someone somewhere may actually read what I've written, my nerves get the better of me & that brain organ decrees that whatever I'd write wouldn't pass muster. It's a dichotomy. Keep writing, Ken & we'll keep reading ... & ONE DAY, I may even get brave enough again to do as you do & JUST WRITE! xxxKaren Redmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-64744252980120239992013-06-02T16:31:49.338+01:002013-06-02T16:31:49.338+01:00Jeffw: No, thank YOU :)
Lisa: Thank you, you are ...Jeffw: No, thank YOU :)<br /><br />Lisa: Thank you, you are always kind to me. :)<br /><br />Ack, Jim, you made me smile today.'Jammy Bastard' indeed. My novel/thing has greased a few agent's desks already and Will Smith is still blissfully unaware of me. :)<br /><br />As ever, your honesty and candour stands to you. We are birds-of-a-feather, you and I, in many ways though chalk and cheese in some others. We'll never amount to a whole hill of beans, I guess, but, like RP McMurphy in the Tap Room, at least we will have goddamn tried. Ken Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-27532770482325189982013-06-02T16:22:17.563+01:002013-06-02T16:22:17.563+01:00I have mixed feelings about readers. Before I star...I have mixed feelings about readers. Before I started all this blogging malarkey I never gave them much of a thought. If there was someone around to show a poem to when it was done then I showed it to them. And there were times I didn’t bother even when there was someone around. I wrote for me and as long as I was happy with what I’d committed to paper then anything else—and by that I mean eventual publication when I could be arsed getting together a submission—was a bonus. The poems appeared in small press magazines and no one ever wrote me any fan mail. Occasionally—very occasionally, you know how these things go—an editor would scribble something when writing back but mostly when they did it was when they were rejecting something that nearly made the grade; “Maybe try this next time, son.” And then came the Internet and other people and you have no idea—or, again, maybe you have—what it felt like when the first person passed a comment on my blog: feedback from an actual reader. And everything went downhill from there. You see readers were fine in theory but once I started to realise that I had regular readers—calling them fans seems so pretentious—who had expectations then my attitude towards my writing changed. I started second-guessing myself. I started thinking: <i>What will people think?</i> <br /><br />Would I write my blogs if no one reader them? Well you can look at Google Analytics as well as I can and you know as well as me that despite the number of hits not many people—unless they take speed-reading to a whole different level—actually read our posts. We’re really only writing to maybe a dozen people. But a dozen’s better than nothing. What, as you say, if no one, not one solitary bugger, read our blogs? Nah, I’d do some real writing instead. The blogs are a chore. The blogs are work. The blogs are me pretending to be sociable and conning myself that I’m promoting my real writing. I’m under no illusions about how effective my blog is. I tried to kid myself that I could be this jolly writer guy, make lots of friends and get people to read my books and then self-publishing really took off and nobody out there is waiting with bated breath for anyone to write anything anymore. <br /><br />Being a playwright you don’t have a physical product to pedal. Maybe thing’ll change for you once you do finish that novel—assuming it’s not finished and doing the rounds of the local agents as we speak. But knowing you if you do get it published it’ll probably be with a real publisher, a <i>big</i> publisher who actually has a decent marketing budget because you’re a jammy bastard like that and have probably written something that people actually want to read, will be made into a film starring Will Smith or at least Will Ferrell (no, I meant Colin Farrell), make you loads of wonga and you’ll forget all about blogs, blogging, blogospheres and all your fellow bloggers who faithfully followed your every word.<br /><br />Well, you’re very welcome!<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-3650131449628918762013-06-02T14:10:45.279+01:002013-06-02T14:10:45.279+01:00Try to visit as often as I can....
Thank you for m...Try to visit as often as I can....<br />Thank you for making it worth the visit xxLisa Jacksonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-53931853210615515802013-06-02T11:40:58.750+01:002013-06-02T11:40:58.750+01:00You're welcome.
Oh, and thank YOU.
:)You're welcome.<br />Oh, and thank YOU.<br />:)Jeffwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13727923475881903056noreply@blogger.com