Comments on: Italian lessons in authenticity: by Emma Bird http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/ The art of writing, for non writers Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:00:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-447 Joanna Young Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:52:01 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-447 Emma - see you're doing it again... I can just picture the trees, hear the warm breeze rustling in the leaves, catch the scent of the grasses wafting over your e-beach... Joanna Emma – see you’re doing it again… I can just picture the trees, hear the warm breeze rustling in the leaves, catch the scent of the grasses wafting over your e-beach…

Joanna

]]> By: Emma Bird http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-446 Emma Bird Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:58:53 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-446 Hi Joanna/hi Rosa Sorry I've not replied before now but I've had a busy weekend of househunting and working with clients on their exciting new businesses in Sardinia. Joanna - It's funny. I'd never realised that I wrote with all my senses until recent feedback so thank you for reinforcing that. I always do close my eyes for a few seconds before I begin writing to savour the scene so that may be why. Rosa - lovely to meet you here and to hear about your family's connection with Italy. I've dipped into your various blogs and I love the refreshing outlook, the link with Hawai and the powerful messages that you give out. And hana hou means....? Please do come and visit HowToItaly. You'd be a very welcome visitor on our e-beach fringed with magnolia, rosemary, lemongrass, juniper and palm trees. Emma Hi Joanna/hi Rosa

Sorry I’ve not replied before now but I’ve had a busy weekend of househunting and working with clients on their exciting new businesses in Sardinia.

Joanna – It’s funny. I’d never realised that I wrote with all my senses until recent feedback so thank you for reinforcing that. I always do close my eyes for a few seconds before I begin writing to savour the scene so that may be why.

Rosa – lovely to meet you here and to hear about your family’s connection with Italy. I’ve dipped into your various blogs and I love the refreshing outlook, the link with Hawai and the powerful messages that you give out. And hana hou means….? Please do come and visit HowToItaly. You’d be a very welcome visitor on our e-beach fringed with magnolia, rosemary, lemongrass, juniper and palm trees.

Emma

]]> By: Rosa Say http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-445 Rosa Say Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:38:12 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-445 Emma, this is absolutely joyful! So wonderful to meet you. My parents and sister lived in Italy for four years, and the stories they would write home always had me longing to visit (I was married already and it happened to be the time I was having my two babies). I had been before, but only for the vacationer's week, and I was quite jealous of the life they were having there, resolving to try it for myself one day. It still could happen... Meanwhile, I love this new opportunity to savor Italy today through your eyes, and will begin to visit How To Italy. As for this: "This is how I am. This is my life. And this is how I write. I'm proud of being me and love the life I live so why should I hide it?" YOU GO GIRL! Hana hou! Emma, this is absolutely joyful! So wonderful to meet you.

My parents and sister lived in Italy for four years, and the stories they would write home always had me longing to visit (I was married already and it happened to be the time I was having my two babies). I had been before, but only for the vacationer’s week, and I was quite jealous of the life they were having there, resolving to try it for myself one day. It still could happen…

Meanwhile, I love this new opportunity to savor Italy today through your eyes, and will begin to visit How To Italy. As for this: “This is how I am. This is my life. And this is how I write. I’m proud of being me and love the life I live so why should I hide it?” YOU GO GIRL! Hana hou!

]]> By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-444 Joanna Young Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:07:49 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-444 Emma, thanks for your comments and feedback - and the additional Italian lesson. "semplice" does capture a lot of what I think we're about here. My tuppenceworth on your writing both here and at HowToItaly - you write with all your senses, you include the right amount of detail so we can see, hear, smell, feel what you were seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling... Oh and you always write with warmth and affection for the place and the people. And we feel that too. Jon's contribution is worth waiting for, it will be so good... coming to a blogsite near here tomorrow... Joanna Emma, thanks for your comments and feedback – and the additional Italian lesson. “semplice” does capture a lot of what I think we’re about here.

My tuppenceworth on your writing both here and at HowToItaly – you write with all your senses, you include the right amount of detail so we can see, hear, smell, feel what you were seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling…

Oh and you always write with warmth and affection for the place and the people. And we feel that too.

Jon’s contribution is worth waiting for, it will be so good… coming to a blogsite near here tomorrow…

Joanna

]]> By: Emma Bird http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-443 Emma Bird Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:59:38 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-443 Hi Jon It's lovely to meet you here in Joanna's sitting room, too. Thanks for your feedback. Do you think that the images are clear and memorable because the writing is simple? Or is that just a by-product of the writing itself? Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to seeing your contribution some time soon - Joanna? Emma Hi Jon

It’s lovely to meet you here in Joanna’s sitting room, too. Thanks for your feedback. Do you think that the images are clear and memorable because the writing is simple? Or is that just a by-product of the writing itself?

Anyway, I’m very much looking forward to seeing your contribution some time soon – Joanna?

Emma

]]> By: Emma Bird http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-442 Emma Bird Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:51:11 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-442 Ciao Sognatrice Thanks for making my day. It's always lovely to have feedback. Oh, and I like you and the way you write, too! Emma Ciao Sognatrice

Thanks for making my day. It’s always lovely to have feedback. Oh, and I like you and the way you write, too!

Emma

]]> By: Emma Bird http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-441 Emma Bird Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:47:55 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-441 Hi Joanna No, thank you for inviting me into your cosy sitting room, handing me a coffee (a frothy cappuccino?) and a biscuit (actually, I think you'd have a plate of biscuits on hand) and letting me share what authenticity means to me. I'm enjoying the ride so far. Incidentally, the word 'simple' in Italian translates into 'semplice'. When you call someone a 'simple person' it's actually very positive. It's used for someone who is authentic and enjoys the simple things in life: friends, family, food, wine, though I'm sure sognatrice can add to that... Italian lesson over :-) Hi Joanna

No, thank you for inviting me into your cosy sitting room, handing me a coffee (a frothy cappuccino?) and a biscuit (actually, I think you’d have a plate of biscuits on hand) and letting me share what authenticity means to me.

I’m enjoying the ride so far. Incidentally, the word ‘simple’ in Italian translates into ‘semplice’. When you call someone a ‘simple person’ it’s actually very positive. It’s used for someone who is authentic and enjoys the simple things in life: friends, family, food, wine, though I’m sure sognatrice can add to that…

Italian lesson over :-)

]]> By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-440 Joanna Young Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:49:05 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-440 Jon, you know I'm starting to understand from all of you what social networking means. It means introducing friends across continents, sharing a coffee in my sitting room :-) Joanna Jon, you know I’m starting to understand from all of you what social networking means. It means introducing friends across continents, sharing a coffee in my sitting room :-)

Joanna

]]> By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-439 Joanna Young Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:46:12 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-439 Hi Sognatrice, thanks for giving me a new word to use when I love what someone has written. "Brava!" (Hmm...do I just use this form for female writers...?) And like you, I love the way Emma writes, and lives her life out loud. Joanna Hi Sognatrice, thanks for giving me a new word to use when I love what someone has written. “Brava!” (Hmm…do I just use this form for female writers…?)

And like you, I love the way Emma writes, and lives her life out loud.

Joanna

]]> By: Jon http://confidentwriting.com/2007/09/whats-your-name/#comment-438 Jon Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:21:17 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=170#comment-438 clear memorable images that push at cultural awareness in a very unexpected way. It's nice to meet you, Emma, here in Joanna's sitting room. clear memorable images that push at cultural awareness in a very unexpected way. It’s nice to meet you, Emma, here in Joanna’s sitting room.

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