Comments on: Drawing a line between public and personal http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/05/27/drawing-a-line-between-public-and-personal/ Design, Culture, Technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jane @ What About Mom? http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/05/27/drawing-a-line-between-public-and-personal/#comment-629 Jane @ What About Mom? Thu, 29 May 2008 02:12:00 +0000 http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/?p=104#comment-629 Great post. Love your ideas especially about overcoming the fear of criticism and being willing to make mistakes if that is the price of taking some action. I realized recently that I was thinking of myself as a bad writer, and it was epiphanous -- finally to be thinking of myself as a "writer," where before I always thought "someday I'll write something." Also really like the idea of blogs as letters rather than diaries. I think of Emily Dickinson's line "This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me --" Great post. Love your ideas especially about overcoming the fear of criticism and being willing to make mistakes if that is the price of taking some action. I realized recently that I was thinking of myself as a bad writer, and it was epiphanous — finally to be thinking of myself as a “writer,” where before I always thought “someday I’ll write something.”

Also really like the idea of blogs as letters rather than diaries. I think of Emily Dickinson’s line “This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me –”

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