http://www.hazelmchaffie.com/blog/2009/06/04/a-wee-small-hours-whinge/ Hazel McHaffie's Blog Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.hazelmchaffie.com/blog/2009/06/04/a-wee-small-hours-whinge/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Livvy Arnold Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:44:49 +0000 http://www.hazelmchaffie.com/blog/?p=74#comment-50 Hi Hazel, Only just discovered your blog today. Never been one for chat lines etc. but felt compelled to add a comment today. I think you are an amazing writer. When I finish most books, including yours, I feel the writer has given me a gift, truly a part of themselves, for indeed they have. Writers like you enable people to experience avenues of life which they would never go down normally.. Sometimes I have written an article e.g. when I was teaching or for a Writers' Group. Occasionally I've felt pleased with it, even be told "That's brilliant", but I know I could never sustain the focus, energy, vitality, depth of research that you pour into every novel.It's so sad that some people feel they need to put others down, instead of celebrating their achievements.I suppose the only solace you can feel is that they must feel rather inferior and also jealous, so they need to expound on their own missed opportunities for brilliance by saying ( bitchily)that they had "more impoortant things to do". Hi Hazel,
Only just discovered your blog today. Never been one for chat lines etc. but felt compelled to add a comment today.
I think you are an amazing writer. When I finish most books, including yours, I feel the writer has given me a gift, truly a part of themselves, for indeed they have. Writers like you enable people to experience avenues of life which they would never go down normally..
Sometimes I have written an article e.g. when I was teaching or for a Writers’ Group. Occasionally I’ve felt pleased with it, even be told “That’s brilliant”, but I know I could never sustain the focus, energy, vitality, depth of research that you pour into every novel.It’s so sad that some people feel they need to put others down, instead of celebrating their achievements.I suppose the only solace you can feel is that they must feel rather inferior and also jealous, so they need to expound on their own missed opportunities for brilliance by saying ( bitchily)that they had “more impoortant things to do”.

]]> http://www.hazelmchaffie.com/blog/2009/06/04/a-wee-small-hours-whinge/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Keren Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:03:30 +0000 http://www.hazelmchaffie.com/blog/?p=74#comment-31 Let me just say that I could never write a novel!!! Let me just say that I could never write a novel!!!

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