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FORUM: Creation, or maybe Head Shop
THREAD TOPIC: Aching to be an artist
ABSTRACT: In which we question creativity, writer's block, hanging out in cafes, saying you're an artist and never doing any actual art, what the hell is an artist anyway etc etc.
POST CONTENTS: After reading an article in Poets and Writers Magazine about a writer juggling the responsibilities of fatherhood with being a literary novelist, I had been juggling a particular phrase around in my head for a while. In the article, said chap says that being a Dad means he spends a lot less time 'aching to be an artist' and a lot more time actually sitting down and writing. So this thread would have been a general sit-down chat about the mythos of creativity, bohemia, writer's block and everything else that goes into the idealised perception of what it's like to make shit up in any media for the edification, enlightenment, entertainment or horrifying of other people.
REASONS FOR NOT POSTING: It's frankly yet another excuse not to sit down and write something myself. And the snark would be at a high, high level, methinks. |
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