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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
3. The "I want to be in the artist mix, but I can't draw/paint/sculpt/ect., but writing seems doable." Some of the twenties Paris scene writers fit this mold, and some of the American Southern renaissance writers of the 1910s, and 20s, fit that mix.
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After thinking about it, I think I may be in this category. I want to create *something*, but I'm not really an artist. I can play the organ at a fairly decent level, but I'm no music composer. I can't draw, paint, or sculpt.
The one artistic thing I can do at quite an advanced level (if I so choose) is take and edit pictures, but nowadays, I don't go out too much to do that.
The reason why I've started to write a story is just because it's been in my head for quite some time, but I don't know if I'm a writer. Obviously, I haven't read ALL fantasy that's ever been written (hehe, as if...), and I'm terribly afraid that I'm writing a story that has been done before.
If there's ONE sort of critics that would make me feel bad then it's something like: "Oh, such and such scene is *exactly* as it is in Book X of Author Y, and Chapter 15 is CLEARLY a ripoff of Chapter 3 of this and that, and the main character is OBVIOUSLY based on...."; I may not actually have read the books mentioned.