tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post73158087290177053..comments2024-01-12T11:26:35.176-05:00Comments on Working Stiffs: To Seek New WorldsWorking Stiffshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270595837074553752noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-91877782179762349382008-06-20T12:33:00.000-04:002008-06-20T12:33:00.000-04:00Tory,I'm so glad you got to the trail. Sounds like...Tory,<BR/>I'm so glad you got to the trail. Sounds like a great day. Get caught in any vortexes?<BR/><BR/>Annette,<BR/>Whether contacted or not, to keep on writing is the answer. I'm sure you'll be recontacted soon. <BR/><BR/>I'm still rewriting and tweaking before I can send out, but it won't be long now.<BR/><BR/>Gina,<BR/>That's an important point, the choice of the tribe people. Best of luck with your submissions.<BR/><BR/>Dana,<BR/>Welcome to the blog. So maybe they're really not uncontacted tribes, just Boy Scouts earning their Primitive Camping badges. You never know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-39134080196630447762008-06-20T10:51:00.000-04:002008-06-20T10:51:00.000-04:00About those uncontacted tribes -- while I understa...About those uncontacted tribes -- while I understand why some people want to leave them uncontacted, to me that seems as if they are being treated as less than human, like some kind of exotic animal to be kept in a nature preserve rather than real people with a right to make their own decisions about whether or not to fully participate in modern life. <BR/><BR/>That said, I'm also waving at those publisher planes and sending up flares to agents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-84804256403421861022008-06-20T10:39:00.000-04:002008-06-20T10:39:00.000-04:00Great point, them thinking it might be a bird. Rem...Great point, them thinking it might be a bird. Reminds me of an old Far Side cartoon: two spiders have built an enormous web, and are watching the goofy-looking Far Side kid walk toward it. One spider says to the other: "Pull this off and we'll eat like kings."<BR/><BR/>There's one thing I wonder about. How do they know there are 100 uncontacted tribes left in the world if no one has contacted them? There's a "If a tribe lives in the woods and no one contacts them" joke in there someone, for someone funnier than me.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-31631134779993134102008-06-20T06:36:00.000-04:002008-06-20T06:36:00.000-04:00I'm just sitting here pondering what it must be li...I'm just sitting here pondering what it must be like to not care a whit about what the gas prices are doing. <BR/><BR/>I was contacted a couple years ago by an agent. It was really cool and exciting and stirred up dreams of a future spent doing book signings and franitcally meeting deadlines. However, I am now back in my cave (AKA my office) waiting for another call from my agent with news of further contact from a publisher. So it's like the plane landed, but took off again and now I'm waiting for its return. In the meantime I write and write.<BR/><BR/>And, Cathy, SEND SOMETHING OUT!!!Annettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02755947919433555176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-42563547110612107942008-06-20T05:38:00.000-04:002008-06-20T05:38:00.000-04:00Regarding summer solstice, I walked along the Cass...Regarding summer solstice, I walked along the Casselman River Trail yesterday. It was beautiful! I did a ritual for myself around letting go. I guess that's appropriate for any season.<BR/><BR/>There's something so inherently overstimulating about the industrialized world. I can't help but think those "undiscovered" tribes must be a lot calmer than us.<BR/><BR/>I can't believe how gorgeous the weather has been this week. I felt really lucky that this was the Thursday I was able to get out into nature.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com