Just Some Thoughts
Where are you?
A Clear Example of Craziness
Want an example of how crazy writers can be? Read author Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Business Musing post Brandon’s Kickstarter and see an analysis of some writers’ reactions to a fantasy author’s phenomenal Kickstarter campaign success. By next week Thursday she should have another post highlighting even more madness so stay tuned. If you manage to not be blinded by—I don’t know, jealousy? Insecurity? Fear? Delusion?—then you may enjoy reading Dean Wesley Smith’s Brandon Helps Us All Once Again to see what a writer’s success on this crowdfunding platform means for other savvy writers both new and established. Anyway, that’s a long way of saying my Kickstarter funded book Artists are…
A little classical chaos
A quirky little video by DoodleChaos. It’s a synchronized 3D to Edvard Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King. A fun example of marrying artistic forms in different ways.
Awards and Shelf Space
Shelf space. It’s something many newer writers clamor for. They want to see their books on bookstore shelves. Oh, the honor! Oh, the delight! Well, one ‘bookstore’ is offering that opportunity—for a price.
Remembering Etel Adnan
Her advice to budding artists: “…being an artist means you’ll always be a little insecure and a little unsure, because you don’t know where you’re going a lot of the time–every act of creation is new. You may have feedback and there are moments when people will give you reassurance, but you won’t have that always. But that’s true of life in general, and people make too big a fuss over the struggles of being an artist, as though an artist’s humanity is different from anyone else’s, as though we are a different kind of creature. It’s not. We are not. Keep going.” She was 87 when her art work…