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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I think you have to be careful to avoid having inspiration take over from perspiration. If (when) you struggle with something you're working on, the siren lure of something new and shiny can be irresistable.
I had an artist friend who was truly inspired. But he lacked the perseverence to properly master his endlessly changing mediums. Ultimately his work was spirited and unique yet always too sloppy.
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That's very good advice.
As I've said before, it's easy to imagine and create, but extremely hard and difficulty to solidify the vision into something tangible, like a book, or a script or a poem (or even a painting or a piece of music, for that matter).
That is the eternal struggle of art...having the vision, and then having the ability to articulate or communicate that vision (no matter how extravagant and unique or mundane and ordinary) effectively to other people in a given medium or a range of media, depending on whatever the case may be.