Comments on: The meaning of authenticity: over to you (part 1) http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/the-meaning-of/ Kindness, clarity, confidence, compassion. Watchwords for writing on the web. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/the-meaning-of/#comment-368 Joanna Young Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:34:43 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=160#comment-368 Hi Adam, the thanks are to you really for helping me work through this thing called authenticity. The self-awareness point is interesting - being more self-aware (including awareness of our senses as well as our feelings) helps to make our writing more specific, more powerful, more alive...and I think writing our experiences also helps us to become more self-aware (and I guess, in the long run, to be more authentic, to live more authentic lives) Joanna PS I figured out the expert point myself too - after a bit of painful soul searching! Hi Adam, the thanks are to you really for helping me work through this thing called authenticity.

The self-awareness point is interesting – being more self-aware (including awareness of our senses as well as our feelings) helps to make our writing more specific, more powerful, more alive…and I think writing our experiences also helps us to become more self-aware (and I guess, in the long run, to be more authentic, to live more authentic lives)

Joanna

PS I figured out the expert point myself too – after a bit of painful soul searching!

]]> By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/the-meaning-of/#comment-367 Joanna Young Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:28:59 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=160#comment-367 Brad, I find it a helpful (and comforting) analogy too. It gives you a framework to think about 'how deep' you're going, and why, and how it relates to your writing purpose. I've found that it also helps me to be aware of 'where' I'm writing from (which links to the point that Adam makes too in the comment box) Joanna Brad, I find it a helpful (and comforting) analogy too. It gives you a framework to think about ‘how deep’ you’re going, and why, and how it relates to your writing purpose. I’ve found that it also helps me to be aware of ‘where’ I’m writing from (which links to the point that Adam makes too in the comment box)

Joanna

]]> By: Adam Kayce : Monk At Work http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/the-meaning-of/#comment-366 Adam Kayce : Monk At Work Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:41:42 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=160#comment-366 Thanks for the mention... And from what I've seen, one of the greatest keys to authenticity is self-awareness. If you're writing just from a mental abstraction or understanding about your topic, it's a whole lot different than writing about your feelings (and so on). Authenticity doesn't have to mean "expert" — you can be perfectly up-front with the fact that you don't know much about what you're talking about — but hey, that's being authentic right there. Thanks for the mention…

And from what I’ve seen, one of the greatest keys to authenticity is self-awareness. If you’re writing just from a mental abstraction or understanding about your topic, it’s a whole lot different than writing about your feelings (and so on).

Authenticity doesn’t have to mean “expert” — you can be perfectly up-front with the fact that you don’t know much about what you’re talking about — but hey, that’s being authentic right there.

]]> By: Brad Shorr http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/the-meaning-of/#comment-365 Brad Shorr Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:11:00 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=160#comment-365 Adam's ideas about layers of authenticity seem spot on and comforting - you don't have to "go deep" every time you write. Adam’s ideas about layers of authenticity seem spot on and comforting – you don’t have to “go deep” every time you write.

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