Comments on: Get Organized for the Fall http://www.writerlylife.com/2012/08/get-organized-for-the-fall/ With daily writing exercises, tips and techniques, and thoughts on the writing life, Writerly Life is for the writer in all of us. Fri, 24 May 2013 23:36:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Margaret Fieland http://www.writerlylife.com/2012/08/get-organized-for-the-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-10232 Margaret Fieland Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:28:10 +0000 http://www.writerlylife.com/?p=3679#comment-10232 I can’t help commenting on this, as I presently live in the Boston area but was born and raised in Manhattan and lived there for some years after college.

Yes, Boston is smaller and easier to get around. Yes, it’s smaller. Yes, it strikes me as better organized.

But it also is, IMO, a less exciting city, both in the arts scene and in the effects of chaos on creativity.

To take one example, there is far more theater, both on and off Broadway, in New York. The half-price ticket place in New York, at 47th and Broadway, is always overflowing with interesting theater, and there are so many off and off-off Broadway plays that the poverty-stricken student (me, when I was in grad school at NYU) can find something exciting to watch.There’s Joe Papp’s theater in central park, there’s the theater he built down by NYU, there’s an extremely lively local music scene in New York. There’s the Art Student’s league.

I also found the noise and chaos, the constantly changing scene, even the surly passers-by to get my creative juices flowing.

Anyone else care to weigh in on this?

]]> By: Michael Washburn http://www.writerlylife.com/2012/08/get-organized-for-the-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-10194 Michael Washburn Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:34:47 +0000 http://www.writerlylife.com/?p=3679#comment-10194 Excellent post. Now maybe offer your thoughts on the effects on the creative process of living in a clean and compact city? (Boston as opposed to New York.)

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