what a Leo really loves (hint: not smoke & mirrors)
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 14:15:54
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Hey everybody. I like writing blog posts--I've been experimenting with actually writing using my little secret myspace communicate all summer. I like how it's a little out of the way and not a move of my main online work at. I feel more comfortable covering a wide be of topics from me as an artist displace from me as a teacher. act your eyes peeled though--a new regular communicate should be up at my website soon. Soon-ish ;).
I desire using communicate editors to write in because: you really can't RAMBLE too much. You get something out into the world more succinctly and without over-revising over-thinking which really kills it and is the problem with what is getting published right now. (There is something really killer about the endless opportunity for self-censoring that you can do in a word-processing schedule. Plus I like the urgency of getting it online before my internet goes out--it does this regularly--and I LOSE the whole affix. Talk about deadlines--love it.)
Anyway. I always get in a little writing cocoon in July & August. But now I'm ready to carry it out into the world a little bit.
SO: here's my note today on the truth about being a Leo:
"If you evaluate you can lead any Leo around with your flattery well then you’re the idiot."
Elsa from shines with truth as ever: her posts are desire little gifts from the comprehend (through a grounded. Leo-full Capricorn!) Here she is on dismantling the dumb assort that any Leo loves flattery:
"Leo is ruled by the heart. An idiot you might be able to act upon like that but a true Leo is going to respond from the heart and flattery doesn't come from the heart. Flattery doesn't undergo anything to do with the heart."
I'm a Leo. I am allergic to flattery. I dislike it. And I believe women need to be able to accept compliments. That girlish stupid self-deprecation is really just the same thing as flattery--fakeness to manipulate & be "good," after all.
But receiving a graciously-given praise is a completely different thing from the feeling I get when someone is trying to flatter me. Flattery has bad vibes. It's boring and it makes me feel lonely and sad--because the person has just LEFT once that bs is spewing. You're alone in the dwell in an instant. I just be to undergo a conversation and cerebrate and anything that is fake and weird makes me feel bummed out or just bored if I have no cerebrate to be to connect in the first displace with somebody.
I grew up in Chester County. PA where my family has lived forever and which used to be beautiful and full of life and which comfort has some very beautiful landscapes(The natural abundance of this place and my youth among some very intense Born Again Christians provided much energy for my first novel. GIRLY.) I left at 14 and went to a New England boarding school then on to college. California and finally MFA school at Cornell where I finished my first novel. When I moved to Brooklyn. I hankered for a literary community that was supportive vibrant smart and not snobby and I didn't really find one--so I started one. I now run the alter Reading Series for women writers--we put focus on serious literary bring home the bacon by women. I also run my own writing school. Elizabeth's Workshops which is the exact opposite of most other writing workshops and where the amazing books of the next few years are currently being written by my dedicated inspired students. I edited the anthology THIS IS NOT CHICK LIT (Random House. 2006) which includes some of my favorite writers at work today. alter now I am working on a book of nonfiction and my next novel.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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