Comments for Anna Humphrey http://annahumphrey.com/blog Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:36:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Make a Chalkboard Fridge! by soap loaves http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=84#comment-277 soap loaves Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:36:19 +0000 http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=84#comment-277 I think this is among the most vital information for me. And i'm glad reading your article. But want to remark on some general things, The site style is perfect, the articles is really great : D. Good job, cheers I think this is among the most vital information for me. And i’m glad reading your article. But want to remark on some general things, The site style is perfect, the articles is really great : D. Good job, cheers

]]> Comment on Encourage Kids to Create! Please Don’t Squish the Sidewalk Flower! by Anna Humphrey http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=180#comment-249 Anna Humphrey Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:15:35 +0000 http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=180#comment-249 Yeah... I hope you're right, too. I mean, I know how it is with interviews. In all likelihood, Alan Rinzler and Tom Robbins also said some lovely things about how great it is to encourage kids' creativity... but those weren't the quotes that got used. I also totally get that fear of what we do being devalued by anyone at all being able to self-publish (or, in the case of freelancing, by university students who will work for 1/5 the price)... but, on the other hand, I think that if we're experienced and hard-working, there is really nothing to feel so threatened by. Not to mention that, once upon a time, we WERE those kids/university students. And we wouldn't be where we are today if SOMEONE hadn't encouraged us and given us a chance. Yeah… I hope you’re right, too. I mean, I know how it is with interviews. In all likelihood, Alan Rinzler and Tom Robbins also said some lovely things about how great it is to encourage kids’ creativity… but those weren’t the quotes that got used.

I also totally get that fear of what we do being devalued by anyone at all being able to self-publish (or, in the case of freelancing, by university students who will work for 1/5 the price)… but, on the other hand, I think that if we’re experienced and hard-working, there is really nothing to feel so threatened by. Not to mention that, once upon a time, we WERE those kids/university students. And we wouldn’t be where we are today if SOMEONE hadn’t encouraged us and given us a chance.

]]> Comment on Encourage Kids to Create! Please Don’t Squish the Sidewalk Flower! by Lauren http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=180#comment-248 Lauren Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:50:54 +0000 http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=180#comment-248 I would not squish the flower! It is lovely. I am wondering if perhaps some of this issue is just Please Leave It To The Professionals, Of Which I Am One sort of posturing. Nobody wants to think that they can be replaced by a bunch of kids (honest-to-goodness KIDS! with their sideburns! and rock-and-roll music!) and people do have a tendency to reflexively react badly to something that they think might devalue their vocation or avocation, which would happen if the market (so to speak) was flooded with a bunch of non-professionals. That's something you and I deal with all the time, right? "Why would I pay YOU that CRAZY amount for that, when I can get a university student to do it for a fifth of the price?" The ability to self-publish, and the fact that the stigma surrounding self-publication is fading away, really changes the landscape for writers, and maybe they're just panicking about that a little bit. Not that that excuses the responses of the people you quoted. I guess that's what I'm HOPING it is, because I don't want to believe that they really think that encouraging creativity in kids is a bad thing. Because, come on. REALLY?! I would not squish the flower! It is lovely.

I am wondering if perhaps some of this issue is just Please Leave It To The Professionals, Of Which I Am One sort of posturing. Nobody wants to think that they can be replaced by a bunch of kids (honest-to-goodness KIDS! with their sideburns! and rock-and-roll music!) and people do have a tendency to reflexively react badly to something that they think might devalue their vocation or avocation, which would happen if the market (so to speak) was flooded with a bunch of non-professionals. That’s something you and I deal with all the time, right? “Why would I pay YOU that CRAZY amount for that, when I can get a university student to do it for a fifth of the price?” The ability to self-publish, and the fact that the stigma surrounding self-publication is fading away, really changes the landscape for writers, and maybe they’re just panicking about that a little bit.

Not that that excuses the responses of the people you quoted. I guess that’s what I’m HOPING it is, because I don’t want to believe that they really think that encouraging creativity in kids is a bad thing. Because, come on. REALLY?!

]]> Comment on Cupcake Appreciation Day by April @ Money Pit Love http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=119#comment-214 April @ Money Pit Love Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:57 +0000 http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=119#comment-214 The cupcake is amazing, but I'll be honest: it's the oven that has me drooling. So pretty! The cupcake is amazing, but I’ll be honest: it’s the oven that has me drooling. So pretty!

]]> Comment on Come Write With Me! (I’ll Try Not to Barf on You) (And There Will be Donuts) by Anna Humphrey http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=174#comment-200 Anna Humphrey Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:19:27 +0000 http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=174#comment-200 I wish you could come, too! I'd get you a donut with extra sprinkles. I wish you could come, too! I’d get you a donut with extra sprinkles.

]]> Comment on Come Write With Me! (I’ll Try Not to Barf on You) (And There Will be Donuts) by Lauren http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=174#comment-188 Lauren Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:59:19 +0000 http://annahumphrey.com/blog/?p=174#comment-188 I wish I could come. Donuts! Writing! Anna! Those are 3 of my favourite things. I wish I could come. Donuts! Writing! Anna! Those are 3 of my favourite things.

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