What to create, that is the question. There are many possibilities, an infinity of pathways. The questions are what is most useful to create? What gets the most attention? What is the most satisfying to create?
Sometimes no answers come and it’s useful to take a break. Sometimes it’s better to be empty and sometimes it’s better to learn than to create; the creative process has its own rhythms, its own dynamic, a life of its own. Ideally the artist or creator allows creative work to flow through them rather than trying to control either the process or the outcome. Ideally the artist also gets validation for their work.
The tensions that exist between the need for attention from the marketplace and the desire to maintain integrity and purity of intent in the creative process can be extreme. It is all too easy to romanticize the struggle.
However I think we all recognize that art must be completed for it to be a contribution. The art must be experienced by others, judged, weighed, absorbed, played with, contemplated, engaged with or discarded to effectively add value for others as well as the artist.
The belief that pursuing artistic purity first is a good approach has support from an excellent book, The Black Swan. As this book illustrates success in many fields is not step by step. Creative or pioneering work is especially not predictable; instead it is done through trial and error, and results are unpredictable. Randomness applies. In this there is comfort, for if you cannot know with certainty what will be successful then anything that you do might be.
Do your best, let the chips fall where they may, and you may end up very well-rewarded in the material world for pursuing your purely creative, ideal craft.
What i know is that there are real pyschics and bogus pyschics that just wants your money.’-”
Well Wayne, what I know is that your comment doesn’t have anything to do with my post. Luckily for you it at least peripherally has to do with the subject matter of my blog, so I will allow your commercial link through. For now.
For you internet marketing guys trying to drop your business links onto my page: I’d be a lot more likely to approve your comments if you actually had a comment that was on-topic of my posts.
What’s the point otherwise? Your stuff just ends up in the trash. You might as well never have sent the comment to my site.
As for claiming you “know” there are real psychics, as in psychics who work in personal consulting, I seriously doubt you know that in any meaningful way. I suspect most real psychics may be using their skills for something more than telling you that a tall, dark, handsome stranger will soon come into your life.
Can you guess what that might be?