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Originally Posted by Moejoe
You've just reminded me of what Vonnengut said about artistic creativity, and I'm half remembering this from a video of a talk he gave.
He told the audience to go home and write a poem, spend time on each line, get it as perfect as possible so that it was as near to perfect as possible in their eyes. Then he told them to take that poem, rip it up and throw it in the trash.
The idea being that creation is the reward and anything beyond the creation meant very little. Once you'd finished with the creation it was truly out of your hands from thereon in. I suppose that's where I want to be, and where I feel we're going, and what I want to make happen.
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How did you know that's what I do !!!!! Anything published is really my rubbish !!!!!
Nah - bad joke ....
Surely creation is the reward; praise from others, the icing and cherry on the top ?