Sunday, March 22, 2015

The trials of the artist

Hello World,

Lewis Carrol once wrote, Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. And lately, that has been me with art projects.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been doing artsy things again. Lately I've been seeing the world as a story meant to be told or a photo needing to be captured. re-immersing myself in a way of living that I have missed.

But while this is happening I have discovered the top three problems with being a "behind-the-scenes artist":

1) Getting ideas while trying to start/finish another idea:
When I came up for the idea about this post, I was trying to finish another one so I could get started on writing a monologue for a home video I'm making. Not wanting to forget about it, I opened up a new tab, put everything else on hold and started writing. Sometimes, I get in these artistic moods where I find it hard to stay with one task. It's as though my brain has a billion little butterfly ideas fluttering around in my head and they won't settle down until I've given each of them their own individual attention.

2) Being artsy alone:
With a lot of the ideas I come up with they are the sorts that cannot be taken on alone. Making me search for someone to help with these little ventures. I have friends, just not too many in the arts I'm "good" at.

3) Looking lazy when you're creating worlds:
One of the most frustrating parts of writing is that you can spend the hour writing two chapters and creating a new language and it just looks like you're goofing off on the internet.

HKx

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