Cousin Lis send me this link so that I can keep on hoping wayyyyy into me nineties…
Well! Live and learn. I never know that writer’s C.V. is different.
Something to think about too, I read it about four or so years ago, and it stick with me:
"We have to accept that most people spend their lives doing jobs that they do not enjoy and that are often dangerous or unhealthy, badly paid and insecure. The world does not owe us a good living just because we want to be writers." Ken Methold in Writing as a Business.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Love that last line, it should keep me humble for a good, long, long, long, lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng while.
Can you be li e ve this?
She WORKED for it, Louis, it didn't fall into her lap, that's the point of the book...that there are writers who seem to think they DESERVE, while the truth is, they have to approach writing like any other business person, because today, patrons [as in the very first link] are hard to come by.
Oh, you crazy creatives you :) I am putting my name down for 'late bloomer' though.
Crazy is good, Shrimpy, crazy is good :-D
So is bloomin' late :-D
I already knew the name Mihály Csíkszentmihályi; he's a Czech specialist of happiness. Genius is mysterious. We can see in the first article that it rests on others.
I visited Cézanne's workshop in Aix. There I was told about the artist's frequent fits of anger. About his father's being a banker. Just like mine. What I larned in the article is how much the father helped the son. Just like mine, in a way. Just like Alexandra David-Neel's husband, in another field.
Cézanne often painted La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, which he could almost see from his workshop. The name means holy victory.
I prefer Cézanne to Picasso, by far.
There's no age for genius. Just as there is no age for love. Some artits die very young. Of course it is a shock. Did they relly need to live any longer? Take Raphael, Van Gogh, Mozart.
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