Hi Bryan, my impulse is to pull out for a while. At present I’m feeling we are not getting anywhere. But I don’t want to just destroy the thing. How about I just lie low for a while and give you a chance to develop beyond the preliminary notes and move forward to go where you’re going? Your writing is always interesting and readable and I continue to admire your input but I don’t think our ideas have started to mesh in a fruitful way. This may contradict what I’ve said before, but it’s apparent that you have things to say and so do I but they don’t seem to interact too well.
I thought I better say this after having made a comment on A Wayfarer’s Notes about perhaps not continuing the collaboration. Not that we have any responsibility to report progress to anyone, but it just cropped up, and I don’t like it when expectations are raised which I may not be able to fulfil!
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ReplyDeleteWell, you know I've tried to express myself as straightforwardly as possible. I'm sure you probably have too, but half the time I honestly can't make heads or tales of what you're talking about. This is probably no one's fault really, just a communication breakdown of some sort.
ReplyDeleteI'm still not even entirely sure the book is even about, but you basically told me to keep going with what I "passionately believe". So that's what I did. Then you come back with "I’m not feeling positive about the journey you are proposing, as yet." Well gee, I'm sorry.
I think that it doesn't work because each of us might need an uninterrupted exposition, expanding into a whole book, to express what we have to say. So it was probably a mad idea in the first place. I'm sorry!
ReplyDeleteSo are you saying that you don't want to continue this, or that you want to go on your own? That's totally up to you. I won't have any hard feelings.
ReplyDelete(I would like to see this comment you're talking about, though. Just out of curiosity.)
Okay, found the comment. Seems like you've made a firmer decision than you've let on here. Well, I'm sincerely sorry to here that. I'm sorry now that I stuck my nose in here where it probably didn't belong. I know that I'm not easy to work with.
ReplyDeleteI really am sorry.
Good luck Vincent.
(I've saved draft versions of my posts onto my computer, in case you decide to dismantle all this. Although, that would mean losing the material in the comments, but I can live with that.)