Your writing about the commercial vs pure world of writing reminds me of a good friend who is a very well-known artist in the Toronto area who is amazingly talented in media from painting to ceramics to stitching/embroidery, to elaborate paper cutouts. But she has never really been accepted by the "artistic" community because she deigns to do commercial art - I think you'd like her, I'll try to link you up on FB, thanks for the wonderful series and all of your writing. Waiting (apprehensively) for part 5, take care ... Nou
Thank you for generously sharing your experience and wisdom. Providing your story helps others see that there are many paths through a career, and helps us recognize certain possibilities and pitfalls along the way. My own winding journey twisted around money, specifically my own and from others. Attending school tended to exert a gravitational pull to work in a school. Instead, I worked toward financial independence so that I could produce work on my own terms. Only later in life did I find a way to merge my own creative inspiration with meeting criteria for funding by others. That journey started with a low paying writing assignment about grant funding for artists.
Your writing about the commercial vs pure world of writing reminds me of a good friend who is a very well-known artist in the Toronto area who is amazingly talented in media from painting to ceramics to stitching/embroidery, to elaborate paper cutouts. But she has never really been accepted by the "artistic" community because she deigns to do commercial art - I think you'd like her, I'll try to link you up on FB, thanks for the wonderful series and all of your writing. Waiting (apprehensively) for part 5, take care ... Nou
Thank you for generously sharing your experience and wisdom. Providing your story helps others see that there are many paths through a career, and helps us recognize certain possibilities and pitfalls along the way. My own winding journey twisted around money, specifically my own and from others. Attending school tended to exert a gravitational pull to work in a school. Instead, I worked toward financial independence so that I could produce work on my own terms. Only later in life did I find a way to merge my own creative inspiration with meeting criteria for funding by others. That journey started with a low paying writing assignment about grant funding for artists.