Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Observation 10/6

Some people are possessed by Muses and create by letting their souls explode through their fingers. That's not to say that they don't work to polish that product, but most of their genius comes in those first frenzied moments, and overworking the original destroys its divinely-inspired soul.

Yet there are other people who simply don't have those Muses. Which would be fine, except that they don't seem to believe in their existence. These people work hard to achieve a creative piece, and it may end up just as good or even better than those that come so irrationally to other artists. Their process takes more work in a different way than the tweaking of the first group.

I just wish that those latter group would not insist that us former work the same way that they do. If we don't need to draft, then why should we? It destroys the art.

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